ESCALANTE, (FRANCISCO) SILVESTRE VLEZ DE

flourished 1768, 79 Spanish Franciscan missionary-explorer, who in 177677 with his superior Francisco Domnguez, while seeking a route to Monterey in California from Santa Fe (now in New Mexico), rediscovered the Grand Canyon (Arizona). He explored what is now western Colorado and made the first Spanish penetration of what is now Utah (in which he recommended colonization), before returning, unsuccessful in his route search, to Santa Fe.