Manuscript map, in color, drawn by Bernardo Miera y Pacheco in San Felipe, Chihuahua, Mexico, in 1778. It documents the efforts of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition to explore the interior of western North America including parts of present day New M...
Description:
Bernardo Miera y Pacheco was the cartographer on the Domínguez-Escalante Expedition. The expedition of ten men, led by Franciscan Fathers Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, departed Sante Fe in late July 1776 and returned t...
Subject (Geographic):
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Southwest, New, and Utah
Subject (Name):
Miera y Pacheco, Bernardo de., Domínguez, Francisco Atanasio, active 1776., Vélez de Escalante, Silvestre, -1792., and Domínguez-Escalante Expedition
