Common Threads: Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante

Name: Common Threads: Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante
Start: 2026-08-20T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-08-20T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas

August 20 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Event poster for the Nevada State Museum featuring a historical map, mountains, and text for a talk titled Common Threads: Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante with speaker Josef Diaz.

Common Threads presents
Setting the Stage: In the Footsteps of Domínguez and Escalante

Speaker:
Josef Diaz
Chief Curator, History and Material Culture
Nevada State Museum, Las Vegas

A talk on the 1776 Domínguez–Escalante Expedition, a six-month journey that produced some of the earliest written and cartographic records of the interior American Southwest.

Among the party was Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco—soldier, artist, cartographer, and polymath—whose influential map became the first European rendering of much of present-day Utah.