UPTLA #1

"Fray Francisco Silvestre Velez De Escalante and Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez, two Catholic Priests of the Franciscan Order accompanied by their attendants

Don Juan Pedro Cisneros - Lucrecio Muniz

Don Dernardo Miera Y Pacheco - Andres Muniz

Don Joaquin Lain - Juan De Agulia

Lorenzo Olivares - Simon Lucero

Encamped near here September 24, and 25, 1776, to open a wider field for mission work among the Indians. They were seeking an overland route from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Monterey. California.

These Priests were the first white men to enter what is now the State of Utah and the first to give us a written record of the geography of the country and the character of its people."