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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29FM_preserving-our-heritage_Montrose-CO.html
Within a few years, one generation passes and another comes on the scene. If those who follow are to have any notion of what it was that went before, it must fall to those who possess a tie to the past to preserve what may be known. In that spir…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29FB_whats-in-a-name_Montrose-CO.html
The town of Montrose was originally known as Pomona, but early settler and town father, Joseph Selig, suggested the name Montrose after a favorite character in Sir William Scott's popular novel, The Legend of Montrose.
Uncompahgre (Un-com-PAH-g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29F7_the-utes-uncompahgre-river-country-ouray-1833-1880-chipeta-1843-1924_Montrose-CO.html
The Utes
An Abundant Earth
The bountiful food resources of the Uncompahgre Valley normally allowed the Tabeguache Utes a life free from hunger. Elk and deer ranged through the valley in profusion, as did antelope, mountain sheep, beaver, sage he…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29EF_pageant-in-the-wilderness_Montrose-CO.html
On July 29, 1776, two Franciscan priests, Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez
and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante, led their eight companions out through
the gates of Santa Fe and into the heart of the American southwest. Their
five-month 2,000…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29EE_so-bold-so-beautiful-a-land_Montrose-CO.html
It took bold men to ride into a bold land—a land of raging rivers,
burning deserts, towering mountains, and rugged canyons.
The land of the Southwest through which Dominguez and
Escalante travelled in 1776 was awesome in beauty and harsh
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29E6_the-gunnison-tunnel_Montrose-CO.html
The Tunnel That Made the Desert Bloom
Early settlers in the Uncompahgre Valley found getting water to the fertile but arid soil an ongoing challenge. Originally, irrigation water from the Uncompahgre River was diverted onto the land through a s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29E3_the-dominguez-escalante-expedition-dominguez-escalante-country_Montrose-CO.html
The Dominguez-Escalante Expedition
Just south of here on August 27, 1776, the Spanish explorers Dominguez and Escalante met a Ute Indian whom they called El Surdo (The Deaf One). They were seeking a route west, the two Spaniards explained, and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29E1_building-an-empire-the-spanish-frontier_Montrose-CO.html
The Spanish empire's influence on the American southwest began long before the 1776 journey of Dominguez and Escalante. Indeed, Spanish conquistadors, in search of gold and silver, explored the region as early as 1540. Santa Fe, the capital of New…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29E0_in-behalf-of-the-light_Montrose-CO.html
As Father Escalante so appropriately recorded in his diary, the
Dominguez Escalante expedition was made "in behalf of the Light."
Dominguez and Escalante were Franciscan priests, and their religion
strongly influenced the course of their j…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29C7_early-freighting-ventures_Montrose-CO.html
Bull Whackers and Mule Skinners
Discovery of gold and silver in the 1870s in the San Juan Mountains south of Montrose created a demand for freighting services to haul equipment and supplies into the mines and carry out ore bound for outside mar…