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The Domínguez and Escalante Expedition of 1776. Denver, Colorado 1976. Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre. "Dominguez–Escalante Expedition Journal (1776)". American Journeys. Retrieved June 20, 2011. David Leighton, "Escalantes worked kilns, ranches and homesteaded," Arizona Daily Star, August 6, 2013. Roberts, David (2019).
He also served as cartographer for the 1776 Domínguez–Escalante expedition. Miera was often at odds with the other leaders of the group, and was also frequently ill. [ 1 ] The expedition failed in its goal of finding a route north to Monterey, but Miera produced maps that were invaluable to subsequent explorers.
This list of 18th-century journals covers published academic journals from a variety of fields, that were current and printed between 1700 and 1799. It also includes journals that, although initially published before 1700, were current and in print during that century as well.
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Starting in the mid-18th century, Spain's claims in the Pacific Northwest began to be contested by the British and Russians, who established fur trading posts and other settlements in the region. King Charles III of Spain and his successors sent several expeditions from New Spain to present-day Canada and Alaska between 1774 and 1793 to ...
In the 18th century, Spanish missionaries visited the area looking for a route to Spanish missions in California. [15] One of the expeditions was that of Spanish friars Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and Francisco Atanasio Domínguez who traveled from New Mexico, through western Colorado to Utah. [20]
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Pages in category "1770s in New Mexico" ... Domínguez–Escalante expedition; M. Pedro Fermín de Mendinueta This page was ...
July 29 – Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe on the Domínguez–Escalante expedition, an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest. They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.