Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest SS_Gift_Guide student at the city's legendary

student at the city's legendary academy

She then takes us on a second journey

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Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest SS_Gift_Guide student at the city's legendaryFamed adventure writer David Roberts retraces the route of the legendary Domnguez Escalante expedition. In July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Domnguez and Silvestre Vlez de Escalante set out from Santa Fe to blaze a pathway to the new Spanish missions in California, across the huge expanse of what would become the American Southwest. In October, in western Utah, ravaged by hunger and cold, the twelve man team had to turn back. Stymied by