Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

by David Roberts

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In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguay , hunting for sources of gold and...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0393652068

ISBN13:9780393652062

Release Date:July 2019

Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company

Length:360 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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