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jul 29, 1776 - Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez, and eight other Spaniards set out from Santa Fe, on an eighteen-hundred mile trek through the American Southwest

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They are the first Europeans to explore the vast region between the Rockies and the Sierras.

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jul 29, 1776
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~ 250 years ago