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Book Synopsis The Domínguez-Escalante Journal by : Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Download or read book The Domínguez-Escalante Journal written by Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown....
Book Synopsis In Search of Domínguez & Escalante by : Greg MacGregor
Download or read book In Search of Domínguez & Escalante written by Greg MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary American Indian basketry in California and the Great Basin has been undergoing a significant revival over the past fifteen years.
Book Synopsis Miera y Pacheco by : John L. Kessell
Download or read book Miera y Pacheco written by John L. Kessell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713–1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer, merchant, debt collector, metallurgist, luckless silver miner, presidial soldier, dam builder, and rancher. This long-overdue, richly illustrated biography recounts Miera’s complex life in cinematic detail, from his birth in Cantabria, Spain, to his sudden and unexplained appearance at Janos, Chihuahua, and his death in Santa Fe at age seventy-one. In Miera y Pacheco, John L. Kessell explores each aspect of this Renaissance man’s life in the colony. Beginning with his marriage to the young descendant of a once-prominent New Mexican family, we see Miera transformed by his varied experiences into the quintessential Hispanic New Mexican. As he traveled to every corner of the colony and beyond, Miera gathered not only geographical, social, and political data but also invaluable information about the Southwest’s indigenous peoples. At the same time, Miera the artist was carving and painting statues and panels of the saints for the altar screens of the colony. Miera’s most ambitious surviving map resulted from his five-month ordeal as cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante expedition to the Great Basin in 1776. Two years later, with the arrival of famed Juan Bautista de Anza as governor of New Mexico, Miera became a trusted member of Anza’s inner circle, advising him on civil, military, and Indian affairs. Miera’s maps and his religious art, represented here, have long been considered essential to the cultural history of colonial New Mexico. Now Kessell’s biography tells the rest of the story. Anyone with an interest in southwestern history, colonial New Mexico, or New Spain will welcome this study of Miera y Pacheco’s eventful life and times.
Book Synopsis Pageant in the Wilderness by : Herbert E. Bolton
Download or read book Pageant in the Wilderness written by Herbert E. Bolton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Escalante, who was born in Treceno, Cantabria, Spain around 1750, became a Franciscan in the Convento Grande in Mexico City at the age of 17. In 1774, he came to present-day New Mexico in the Mexican province. He was first stationed at Laguna pueblo and then in January 1775 assigned as a minister to the Zuni. In June 1776, he was summoned by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, who had arrived in Santa Fe on March 22, 1776, for the expedition to California and remained in New Mexico for two years following the expedition. Father Escalante died at the age of 30 in April 1780 in Parral, Mexico, during his return journey to Mexico City for medical treatment. Author Herbert Eugene Bolton, who was well-known for his books on the Southwest and Spanish Americas, here recounts in detail the story of Father Silvestre Velez de Escalante on his expedition to the Interior Basin in 1776. Bolton also includes translations of Father Escalante’s expedition itinerary and personal journal, in which Escalante described the expeditions he went on. He also includes a translation Bernardo Miera y Pacheco’s report to the King of Spain dated October 26, 1777, as well as two maps. “This dynamic story of Father Escalante’s trek into the Great Basin, by Dr. Herbert E. Bolton, represents the results of a long lifetime of interest, writing, and exploration in Spanish activities in the great Southwest.”—Preface
Download or read book Glen Canyon written by Tad Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs and text describes the Glen Canyon region, which was later flooded to create Lake Powell.
Book Synopsis I Am the Grand Canyon by : Stephen Hirst
Download or read book I Am the Grand Canyon written by Stephen Hirst and published by Grand Canyon Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the Havasupai people. From their origins among the first group of Indians to arrive in North America some 20,000 years ago to their epic struggle to regain traditional lands taken from them in the nineteenth century, the Havasupai have a long and colorful history. The story of this tiny tribe once confined to a toosmall reservation depicts a people with deep cultural ties to the land, both on their former reservation below the rim of the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus. In the spring of 1971, the federal government proposed incorporating still more Havasupai land into Grand Canyon National Park. At hearings that spring, Havasupai Tribal Chairman Lee Marshall rose to speak. "I heard all you people talking about the Grand Canyon," he said. "Well, you're looking at it. I am the Grand Canyon!" Marshall made it clear that Havasu Canyon and the surrounding plateau were critical to the survival of his people; his speech laid the foundation for the return of thousands of acres of Havasupai land in 1975. I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of a heroic people who refused to back down when facing overwhelming odds. They won, and today the Havasupai way of life quietly continues in the Grand Canyon and on the surrounding plateaus.
Book Synopsis Archaeology of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road from Las Vegas, Nevada to the California Border by : Keith Myhrer
Download or read book Archaeology of the Old Spanish Trail/Mormon Road from Las Vegas, Nevada to the California Border written by Keith Myhrer and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peoples of Utah by : Utah State Historical Society
Download or read book The Peoples of Utah written by Utah State Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains histories of some of the minorities in Utah.
Book Synopsis Driving the Great Western Trail in Arizona by : Jennifer L Andrews
Download or read book Driving the Great Western Trail in Arizona written by Jennifer L Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fourth edition in black and white of Driving the Great Western Trail in Arizona, contains all of the trails from Mexico to Utah. Would you like to camp on an Indian Reservation or in an unspoiled forest or star-lit desert accompanied by the sounds of native wildlife? Would you like to show your children where the deer and the antelope really play, and to drive on the Mormon Honeymoon Trail or the Moqui Stagecoach Trail as the pioneers did in covered wagons? If so, then stock your Jeep, pack a tent and this book, and say goodbye to the hustle and bustle of civilization for a week. You can also vicariously enjoy the Great Western Trail from the passenger's seat in the four-wheeling DVD adventure, The Great Western Trail in Arizona. Traveling more than 418 miles through deserts, streams, and over mountains, you'll visit the twelve sections of the trail that will awe both newbies to the sport, as well as hard-core, off-road aficionados.
Book Synopsis Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765 by : Steven G. Baker
Download or read book Juan Rivera's Colorado, 1765 written by Steven G. Baker and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Massacre at Mountain Meadows by : Ronald W. Walker
Download or read book Massacre at Mountain Meadows written by Ronald W. Walker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-09 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 11, 1857, a band of Mormon militia, under a flag of truce, lured unarmed members of a party of emigrants from their fortified encampment and, with their Paiute allies, killed them. More than 120 men, women, and children perished in the slaughter. Massacre at Mountain Meadows offers the most thoroughly researched account of the massacre ever written. Drawn from documents previously not available to scholars and a careful re-reading of traditional sources, this gripping narrative offers fascinating new insight into why Mormons settlers in isolated southern Utah deceived the emigrant party with a promise of safety and then killed the adults and all but seventeen of the youngest children. The book sheds light on factors contributing to the tragic event, including the war hysteria that overcame the Mormons after President James Buchanan dispatched federal troops to Utah Territory to put down a supposed rebellion, the suspicion and conflicts that polarized the perpetrators and victims, and the reminders of attacks on Mormons in earlier settlements in Missouri and Illinois. It also analyzes the influence of Brigham Young's rhetoric and military strategy during the infamous "Utah War" and the role of local Mormon militia leaders in enticing Paiute Indians to join in the attack. Throughout the book, the authors paint finely drawn portraits of the key players in the drama, their backgrounds, personalities, and roles in the unfolding story of misunderstanding, misinformation, indecision, and personal vendettas. The Mountain Meadows Massacre stands as one of the darkest events in Mormon history. Neither a whitewash nor an exposé, Massacre at Mountain Meadows provides the clearest and most accurate account of a key event in American religious history.
Book Synopsis Moving Forward, Looking Back by : Janire Nájera
Download or read book Moving Forward, Looking Back written by Janire Nájera and published by Rm. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searching for traces of Spanish culture in the American Southwest, Spanish photojournalist Janire Nájera (born 1981) drove along the Old Spanish Trail, a trade route first opened in the 19th century. This book features a collection of portraits and interviews, interwoven with Nájera's travel diary.
Book Synopsis Pageant in the Wilderness by : Silvestre Vélez de Escalante
Download or read book Pageant in the Wilderness written by Silvestre Vélez de Escalante and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks by : Angus Munn Woodbury
Download or read book A History of Southern Utah and Its National Parks written by Angus Munn Woodbury and published by . This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah State Historical Society, V12, No. 3-4, July-October, 1944.
Book Synopsis The Missions of New Mexico, 1776 by : Francisco Atanasio Domínguez
Download or read book The Missions of New Mexico, 1776 written by Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adams and Chavez polish a unique window on late 18th-century New Mexico, providing a seamless translation of Father Domnguez's original work as well as explanatory materials.
Book Synopsis Dominguez-Escalante National Historic Trail Study (NM,CO,UT,AZ) by :
Download or read book Dominguez-Escalante National Historic Trail Study (NM,CO,UT,AZ) written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Beaver County by : Martha Sonntag Bradley
Download or read book A History of Beaver County written by Martha Sonntag Bradley and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: