Sunday, March 15, 2020

CYW 044 About that Name

For six months back in 1776, two Franciscan monks led a party of ten men through this part of western Colorado and eastern Utah looking for a new route to the Spanish missions in California.  Near the Utah border they found two copious springs of the finest water “a musket shot apart from each other”.
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