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Show iences of those intrepid Spanish fathers. The first recorded description of Utah Valley is given by Es-calante, Es-calante, who named it the valley val-ley of "Our Lady of Mercy." He halted here for two days, giving a graphic description of the region re-gion and noted that this valley alone "would provide for as many pueblos of Indians as there are in New Mexico' To Escalan-te Escalan-te this was the highest praiss which could ibe given. Another highlight of the journey was encountering en-countering the Bethded Yuta Indians In-dians whom he described as being be-ing "more like Spaniards than like the rest of the Indians hitherto hith-erto in America . . ." and followed fol-lowed with an enlightening description de-scription of their appearance of their clothes, manners and homes. hom-es. The Spanish explorers visualized visual-ized villas and missions built in many of the regions through twhich they passed and were ev-Jer ev-Jer on the lookout for irrigation possibilities. The description of the Indians of Utah's Dixieland and the difficult crossing of the Colorado are all graphically portrayed. por-trayed. The volume is generously illustrated il-lustrated and is accompanied by a complete detailed map compiled com-piled by Dr. Bolton, which clearly clear-ly marks the route of the expedition. expe-dition. In addition to this highly significant contribution to the cartography of our region, a rare and beautiful map drawn by Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco, map-maker map-maker and astronomical observer of the expedition, has been uncovered un-covered recently by Dr. Bolton and is reproduced in full color for the first time in this volume. The book also boasts an extra- O NEW PUBLICATION NOWAVAILABLE Publication of the journal of Father Silvestre Escalante by the Utah State Historical Society marks a milestone not only for the Society but also for historical histor-ical publications of this area. This book which is the most ambitious am-bitious undertaking yet to be completed by the society was released this week and is now available at the office of the society in the Capitol building, according to Dr. A. R. Morten-sen, Morten-sen, editor. Escalante's historic ordinary full-colored frontispiece reproduced from an original oil painting of Escalante viewing Utah Valley, the original of which was done by Keith Ed-dington, Ed-dington, promising young Utah artist. Dr. Mortensen stated that The publication of the Bolton edition of the Escalante diary will be regarded as the definitive study of this phase of the pre-settle-ment history of the Intermoun-tain Intermoun-tain region. Pageant in the Wilderness Wild-erness will, he feels, add the finishing fin-ishing touch to former works on the Escalante exploration including includ-ing that of Harris made some years ago, and the Auerbach translation published by this society in 1943. The volume promises pro-mises to stand as a landmark in the publication program of the Historical society, taking its place among such significant works as the recently published Powell journals of the Colorado river exploration. trek through Colorado, across Utah and Arizona, and finally back to New Mexico in 1776 in his effort to establish a new route from the Spanish settlements settle-ments in New Mexico to those in Alta California has long been recognized as the first and most important exploratory record of the Intermountain area. And now, under the able hand of the well known authority, Dr. Herbert Her-bert E. Bolton, the story has been brought to life with a new vividness and clarity. A Pageant in the Wilderness, the Story of the Escalante Expedition Ex-pedition into the Interior Basin, as the volume has been named, is the latest of Herbert E. Bolton's Bol-ton's great series ofworks upon Spanish exploration in the West and Southwest. As an author, Bolton's highest literary attainments attain-ments have been in the field which he names "Spanish borderlands." bord-erlands." His works, The Rim of Christendom; Outpost of Empire; Coronado, Knight of Pueblos and Plains; and now Pageant in the Wilderness are superb examples of historical literature. Despite other divers activities, including directorship ot the Bancroft li- brary, one time president of the American Historical society and for forty years professor of history his-tory at the University of California Cali-fornia at Berkeley, Bolton stands pre-eminent as the greatest American Am-erican historian of overland exploration. ex-ploration. It is doubtful whether any historian has ever equaled his record for field work. In the years of preparation for this volume vol-ume Dr. Bolton has retraced portions por-tions of the rugged trail several times. This work, being published as Volume 18 of the Utah Historical Histor-ical Quarterly, identifies accurately accur-ately for the first time all campsites camp-sites of the expedition in relation rela-tion to present-day geographic names, enabling thereader to follow this historic journey step-by-step. Dr. Bolton has spent over ov-er twenty years in his exhaustive exhaus-tive research on the Escalante exploration and in. this volume has given an authoritative translation trans-lation of the diary from Spanish, as well as a fascinating - narrative narra-tive account of the daily exper- |