Escalante's Dream by David Roberts

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/132827 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Escalante's Dream Author: David Roberts Narrator: Robert Fass Format: mp3 Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins Release date: 08-27-19 Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 61 ratings Genres: Expeditions & Discoveries Publisher's Summary: In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayo, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements from Santa Fe to Monterey. In strict terms, the expedition failed.