Diario y derrotero

By Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre

Subjects: Biography, Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Early works to 1800, Diaries, America, discovery and exploration, Escalante-Domínguez Expedition, 1776, Domínguez-Escalante Expedition (1776), Personal narratives

Description: The chronicle 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. This oversize edition includes nine pages of photographs and maps, plus an appendix containing the complete journal in its original Spanish.