Post on 21-Jan-2016
First non-Native Americans to enter Utah
Spanish explorers
Hopes of silverExplore Colorado RiverEventually expand
Spanish power
What were they looking for?
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• Santa Fe, NM• North to
Colorado• West through
SE Utah near Monticello, the
La Sal Mountains, and Moab
Indian Information.
Information on the terrain.
Information on Resources available.
Catholic Priests Francisco Dominquez & Silvestre Escalante
Soldiers, mapmaker, translators, servants
Better route from Santa Fe (New Mexico) to the California coast
What were they looking for?
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Saw that land was good for living on Established missions and presidiosIntroduced American Indians to
ChristianityIntroduced European way of life and
learned how to get food from American Indians
Created maps of the area and acted as guides
Who?Trappers
What were they looking for?Animal pelts – beaver, muskrat, etc.seeking to make their fortune.Individual Freedom: no laws to follow.Looking for adventure.
Set up trading posts Positive and negative interactions with
American IndiansMapped most of today’s Utah which opened
up the West to settlersIntroduced guns and other tools to American
IndiansBrought horses to some American Indian
groups
Who?Government explorers
What were they looking for?Fremont – water route from Great Salt Lake to
California, route for the railroadPowell – explore previously unmapped areas,
collect rock, plant, animal samples
More accurate maps of UtahScientific/geographical dataFought for conservation