Common Threads: Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante

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.