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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.
Dominguez and Vélez de Escalante noted in their journal that the Native American name for this river suggested it was the same river they had named Buenaventura. They expressed doubts it was the same river because had it been so, it was substantially smaller downstream than it had been upstream--the opposite of the normal pattern.
The Escalante and Dominguez Pueblos, located next to the Visitor Center and Museum, were homes of Ancestral Pueblo people [3] three times. [5] Escalante Pueblo was constructed approximately 1120 to 1130 AD and made of groupings of stone walled family and communal rooms, including kivas.
A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to Find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi River. [23] By Henri Joutel, printed 1714 Last voyage of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle: Journal of a Tour to North Carolina by William Attmore, 1787 [24] Travel (North Carolina) 1787
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