Common Threads: Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante
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Common Threads presents
Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante
Speaker:
Josef Diaz
Chief Curator, History and Material Culture
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
A talk on the 1776 Domínguez–Escalante Expedition, a six-month journey that produced some of the earliest written and cartographic records of the interior American Southwest.
Among the party was Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco—soldier, artist, cartographer, and polymath—whose influential map became the first European rendering of much of present-day Utah.
Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante
Speaker:
Josef Diaz
Chief Curator, History and Material Culture
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas
A talk on the 1776 Domínguez–Escalante Expedition, a six-month journey that produced some of the earliest written and cartographic records of the interior American Southwest.
Among the party was Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco—soldier, artist, cartographer, and polymath—whose influential map became the first European rendering of much of present-day Utah.
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309 S Valley View Blvd., Las Vegas, NV, United States, Nevada 89107
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Host or PublisherNevada State Museum, Las Vegas
