Desert Rats, River Runners, and Canyon Crawlers: Four Arizona Explorers with Gregory McNamee
Social Hall - R H Johnson Recreation Center 19803 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd, Sun City West, AZ, United StatesFrancisco Garcés, a Franciscan friar, arrived in what is now Arizona in 1768. Assigned to the church at San Xavier del Bac south of present-day Tucson, he traveled widely throughout Arizona and California, charting overland routes that later travelers would follow. Near where Garcés would meet his death in 1781, an American soldier named Joseph […]
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