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Escalante's Dream

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Escalante's Dream

By David Roberts

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About the book

In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez 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 Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements f...Show more

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ISBN

9780393652062

Publisher

WW Norton & Co

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Escalante's Dream

Format

Hardcover

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