{"content":[{"text":"Book","bbox":{"left":0.37458,"top":0.123946,"width":0.07159599999999999,"height":0.025230000000000002}},{"text":"Reviews","bbox":{"left":0.464444,"top":0.123946,"width":0.11190300000000003,"height":0.025230000000000002}},{"text":"Pageant in the Wilderness, the diary and itinerary of the \n expedition of Fathers Dominguez and Escalante into the \n area northwest of New Mexico; translated, annotated, \n and furnished with a historical introduction by Herbert \n E. Bolton. Pp. 265, xi. Salt Lake City, Utah: Utah State \n Historical Society, 1950. $5.50. \n One hundred and seventy-five years ago the two Frailes \n Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Esca- \n lante set out from Santa Fe to discover a land route that \n would connect the Spanish Province of New Mexico with \n Monterey, California. Of the group that accompanied' them \n two others should be mentioned, Captain Don Bernardo de \n Miera y Pacheco for the beautiful colored maps he made of \n the Province of New Mexico, and Andres Muniz because he \n had already visited the domain of the Yuta Indians through \n which the expedition was to pass, and knew their language. \n The group followed old trails, and encountered Indians \n well known to New Mexico almost to the point where they \n entered the present state of Utah. From' here they were \n breaking new trail. That the Yutas encountered near Utah \n Lake and called Lagunas, or Lake Indians, and those seen \n as the party traveled south into Utah's Dixie. and called \n \"Yutas Cobardes,\" or timid Yutas, were bands previously \n unknown to the Spanish can be discerned by reading \n Escalante. \n Crossing the Colorado River and returning to Santa. Fe, \n the expedition failed to open the proposed route and was not \n of great significance to the future history of New Mexico, \n but as Dominguez wrote before the departure from Santa \n Fe: \n Even though we may not achieve our purpose, which is to explore a \n road from this kingdom to Monterey, much advance will be made by \n the knowledge we can acquire of the lands through which we shall \n travel, and it will be very useful in subsequent attempts. Moreover, we \n plan to return through Cosnina [the land ~f the Havasupai], to con- \n firm that nation in its good intention to be christianized, and to sepa- \n 77","bbox":{"left":0.125686,"top":0.1627,"width":0.694822,"height":0.704096}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}