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

by David Roberts

Book Overview

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 had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguay , hunting for sources of gold and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393652068
• ISBN13: 9780393652062
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"