Escalante's dream on the trail of the Spanish discovery of the Southwest /
In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez 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: conver...
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| Main Author: |
Roberts, David, 1943-2021, |
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Book
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| Language: |
English
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: |
337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
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| Edition: |
First edition. |
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