Without Noise of Arms: The 1776 Dominguez-Escalante Search for a Route from Santa Fe to Monterey
by Briggs, Walter; Crampton, C. Gregory - Foreword
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- Fine
- Hardcover
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- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0873581415
- ISBN 13
- 9780873581417
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About This Item
Flagsetaff,Arizona: Northland Press, 1976. First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Fine/Very Good. 11 1/2" x 10. Hurley,Wilson - Oil Paintings. 212 Pages Indexed. Off white cloth boards with gold spine lettering. Orange endpapers. A large oblong coffee table size book in as new gift quality condition. Glossy pages throughout. Dust jacket has very light, barely noticeable, wear to edges. Flap price $30.00 is unclipped. Frontispiece is a two color map. Illustrated with ten full color plates, and fifteen black and white maps. In July of 1776 two young Franciscan missionaries led a party of eight other men on what was to become Spain's ultimate thrust of colonial energy in the New World. Searching for a route from Santa Fe to the California presidio at Monterey, these ten men explored and adventured over more than two thousand miles of virgin territory in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, a distance greater than that covered by the Lewis and Clark Expedition three decades later. Their circuitous route took them over some of the most beautiful and inhospitable terrain in the Western Hemisphere. Unknowingly, they roved the Great Basin and became the first white men to successfully attempt a crossing of the Colorado River canyons. During the five months of their wayfaring they would meet and deal peacefully with more than a dozen Indian tribes, many of whom had never seen their like before. Traveling "without noise of arms," the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition would come to represent one of the few bright chapters in the bloody journal of racial and religious oppression written by European man on this continent. The extensive daily chronicle kept by Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante, and which later served as the official report of the Expedition, is the basis for much of Walter Briggs's source material. Excerpts from the Franciscan's log provide a fascinating picture of the Expedition and its members. Landscape artist Wilson Hurley's oil paintings, of which ten are reproduced in these pages, were created as he traveled the route taken by those ten unique men two hundred years ago. Several newspaper clippings regarding this book are laid in. Contents: The Paintings, The Charts, Foreword, The Genesis, The Exodus, The Revelation, La Bibliografia, and Gracias. The author says that this book could not have been written without the friendship and inspiration of Fray Angelico Chavez of Santa Fe, the pre-eminent living authority on our Southwest's Spanish era. Fray Angelico read every line of the manuscript, caught the writer in lapses and suggested piquant interpolations.
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- Dons Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19926
- Title
- Without Noise of Arms: The 1776 Dominguez-Escalante Search for a Route from Santa Fe to Monterey
- Author
- Briggs, Walter; Crampton, C. Gregory - Foreword
- Illustrator
- Hurley,Wilson - Oil Paintings
- Format/Binding
- Hard Back
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Stated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0873581415
- ISBN 13
- 9780873581417
- Publisher
- Northland Press
- Place of Publication
- Flagsetaff,Arizona
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- 11 1/2" x 10
- Keywords
- HISTORY WORLD AMERICAN MEXICAN BIOGRAPHY TRAVEL EXPLORATION GEOGRAPHY NEW SPAIN
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