(AP) - Most people in Dolores have heard of the Dominguez-Escalante expedition ... Miera created a map of the expedition that included one of those rivers conveniently flowing west from the ...

4, 1776 — that an expedition led by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante camped in ... and to explore and map lands north and west of the Colorado River.

“The map produced by the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition was one of the landmarks in the cartographic history of the North American West. It would influence other maps for more than a generation ...

The freedom to ditch the map, to swerve off the itinerary ... so much the better. Though Dominguez led the expedition, Escalante chronicled it, and in Roberts' judgment the result, unlike that ...

Others are deserving credit for this expedition that reached ... While Miera made the maps and Dominguez was the leader, Escalante has got schools, the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...