colorado river Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/colorado-river Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:12:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Colorado http://toursmaps.com/colorado.html http://toursmaps.com/colorado.html#respond Fri, 06 May 2016 18:44:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=203694 1776 Spanish priests Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante, along with eight other men en route to California lead an expedition through western Colorado, traversing through the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. 1779 New Mexican Governor Don Juan Bautista de Anza, along with 573 men, sets out to attack Comanche Indians, traveling over Poncha Pass, through South Park, and over the Front Range to Colorado’s eastern foothills. 1786 Governor Anza negotiates peace treaty between the Comanches and the Utes. 1787 Governor Anza selects site near present-day Pueblo to begin first (and last) Spanish settlement in the area; it eventually fails.

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