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The Wagon Master is a 1950 movie by John Ford, loosely based on the San Juan Expedition. The book The Undaunted is a historical novel by Gerald N. Lund which tells the story of the expedition, drawing on diaries and other accounts, and centering on one fictional family amongst real persons on the trip. [2] Real persons include: Jens Nielson.
John Navarre Macomb, Junior (1811–1889) was a United States Army topographical engineer and explorer of the Colorado River. Captain Macomb led the 1859 San Juan Exploring Expedition, whose purpose was to find a military supply route from Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Utah and to map previously unexplored areas along the route.
Silverton is a statutory town that is the county seat, the most populous community, and the only incorporated municipality in San Juan County, Colorado, United States. [ 1 ] [ 8 ] The town is located in a remote part of the western San Juan Mountains , a range of the Rocky Mountains .
The San Juan Skyway overlaps with the Trail of the Ancients Scenic and Historic Byway on Colorado State Highway 145 between U.S. Highway 160 and Colorado State Highway 184. The San Juan Skyway connects with the Tracks Across Borders Scenic and Historic Byway at Durango, the Alpine Loop Back Country Byway at Silverton and Ouray, and the Unaweep ...
River Systems. The Rio Grande drains the east side of the range. The other side of the San Juans, the western slope of the continental divide, is drained by tributaries of the San Juan, Dolores and Gunnison rivers, which all flow into the Colorado River. Forests. The San Juan and Uncompahgre National Forests cover a large portion of the San ...
DeAnne Gallegos, San Juan County’s public information officer as well as the executive director of Silverton’s Chamber of Commerce, says local tourist reps had nothing to do with the sighting ...
Restrictions on travel caused by World War II ended Norm's Grand Canyon trips for the duration. Nevills stayed in Mexican Hat throughout the war, leading an occasional river trip, including some on the San Juan river and one on the Colorado through Cataract Canyon. In 1946, challenged by a Salt Lake City newspaper writer, Nevills went to Idaho ...
Location of San Juan County in Colorado. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in San Juan County, Colorado.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in San Juan County, Colorado, United States.