History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . Pkobable Route of Cardenas, The first European to enter within the presentlimits of Nevada of whom we now have knowledge,and without doubt in my mind absolutely the first toenter, was Father Francisco Garces, of the order ofSt Francis, who set out from Sonora in 1775 with aparty under Colonel Anza for California, and whostopped at the junction of the Colorado and Gila toexplore for a mission site. Of the expedition to Cali-fornia was Father Pedro Font who wrote a narrativeof it, and drew a map which included not only his ^ EARLIEST EXPLORAT
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History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming, 1540-1888 . Pkobable Route of Cardenas, The first European to enter within the presentlimits of Nevada of whom we now have knowledge, and without doubt in my mind absolutely the first toenter, was Father Francisco Garces, of the order ofSt Francis, who set out from Sonora in 1775 with aparty under Colonel Anza for California, and whostopped at the junction of the Colorado and Gila toexplore for a mission site. Of the expedition to Cali-fornia was Father Pedro Font who wrote a narrativeof it, and drew a map which included not only his ^ EARLIEST EXPLORATIONS. own waiulerini^s l»ut tliose of Oarces.^ If Garcds isriulit ill liis ivc-k()iiiii«, % and Fonts map is correct, thefriar was in Xevacla at the time. The month of January 177G was occupied in estab-lisliinu^ a residence on the spot wliere later stood FortYuma, the i-xumination of the ranehfiia of San liable, . Pa DUE Fonts Map, 1777. below on the river, which was found to be a suitablesite for a mission. In February he visited the Yam-ajabs, that is to say the Mojaves, arriving on the These wjinilerings are «le8if, niatcd by dotted lines. f^eeAiuui, Pinrio, MS., 198 ut Hcq.; I-oiitx Juiininl, MS., 4.» et seq.; Anicirit/i, Crdii. .Strd/., 4«4 etBetj.; //iV. Cat., i. 27.H-8, tliis Bcries. » AcroHH a sierni to S.into Angul Springs 34° 31 (in Chc-nu-hnevcs couu-tr>); nation, wliosoninclKTias, 1^ l»:i«i<in, were acrouB the river (35 on Fonts map). JJi«l. CaL, i. 273, note, this series. TRAVELS OF GAECfiS. 29 west bank of the river nearly opposite their village onthe 28th.3 Garces did not cross the river at this time, but twothousand people of a nature superior* to that of theYumas came to him on the west side. I showedthem a picture of the virgin, says the friar, andthey w^ere well pleased, but the picture of the da