Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest by David Roberts

Escalante's Dream: On the Trail of the Spanish Discovery of the Southwest

David Roberts

360 pages hardcover 2019

4 editions

nonfiction history travel adventurous reflective medium-paced
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In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dom nguez and Silvestre V lez 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...

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