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