Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792
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Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, fl. 1768-1779
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Vélez Escalante, Francisco Silvestre, -1792
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Escalante, Francisco Silvestre Vélez, -1792
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Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Silvestre, -1792
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Spanish Franciscan missionary priest who came to New Spain in 1769. He served in various missions, and was head of the Zuni mission. In 1776-77, he and Father Francisco Domínguez led an expedition to open an overland trail from Santa Fe to Monterey. Although they never reached Monterey, they explored the Utah Basin and succeeded in crossing the Colorado River near Glen Canyon, which today lies beneath Lake Powell.
Vélez de Escalante, better known as Escalante, was a Spanish Franciscan missionary sent to New Mexico in 1774; he was the recorder of this 1776 expedition. Domínguez, a Mexican Franciscan priest, was his ecclesiastical superior and leader of the expedition.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nr88000298
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/nr88000298
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Discoveries in geography
Discoveries in geography
Evangelistic work
Explorers
Hopi Indians
Hopi Indians
Hopi Indians
Hopi Indians
Indian cartography
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
Indians of North America
Manuscript maps
Manuscripts, Spanish
Missionaries
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Missions
Missions
New Mexico
Pueblo Indians
Pueblo Indians
Quivira (Legendary place)
Ute Indians
Zuni Indians
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Utah
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New Mexico
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Utah
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Utah
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Arizona
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Arizona
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Utah Lake (Utah)
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New Mexico
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Great Basin
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Southwest, New
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New Spain
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New Mexico--Santa Fe
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New Mexico
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New Mexico--Santa Fe
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Southwest, New
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Southwest, New
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New Mexico--Zuni
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New Spain
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New Spain
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Great Basin
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Colorado
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Utah
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Great Basin
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New Mexico
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Arizona
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Great Basin
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Southwest, New
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Southwest, New
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New Mexico
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Colorado
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
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New Mexico
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Southwest, New
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Great Basin
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Southwest, New
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Southwest, New
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Great Basin
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