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Colorado’s Network of Ancient Routes Studied


Claire.

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Routes, trails crisscrossed area long before Europeans arrived.

 

On August 26, 1776, after descending the eastern side of the Uncompahgre Plateau to the Uncompahgre River Valley, Father Francisco Silvestre Vélez de Escalante wrote, “In the meadow of this river … there is a very wide and well-beaten trail.” Similarly, on Sept. 9, when the expedition he led with Father Francisco Atanasio Domínguez descended the north side of Douglas Pass, Escalante wrote that the group traveled nearly 30 miles “over a very well-beaten trail with only one bad stretch.”

Since very few Europeans had traveled this region prior to Dominguez and Escalante, it’s clear that these “well-beaten trails” were established by the natives who lived there. In 1776, that meant the Utes. But the trails were likely used by a variety of native people over the ages.

Read more: The Daily Sentinel

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That's home territory for me! :tsu: 1776, wow. Colorado is known as the Centennial State because it was admitted to the Union in 1876,

In 1976 we had a big celebration state wide. All of the men grew long sideburns and talked like cowboys during that time.

If you haven't partied at 14,000 feet you haven't lived!

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