Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Briggs, Walter

Without noise of arms the 1776 Dominguez-Escalante search for a route from Santa Fe to Monterey Walter Briggs; Oil paintings by Wilson Hurley; Foreword by C. Gregory Crampton - Flagstaff, AZ Northland Press 1976 - 212 p

A history of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey, California. Includes oil paintings of the natural wonders along the route, along with numerous maps.

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--New Mexico--To 1848

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