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In 1776, two Franciscan missionaries Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante sought to find a land route between Santa Fe in New Mexico to Monterey in California.
( Both of these states were then Spanish provinces.
) They were part of a ten man expedition under the military leadership of Bernardo Miera y Pacheco.
( They were joined en route by two Native American guides.
) On September 13, they encountered what is now called the Green River, a southward-flowing tributary of the Colorado and named it San Buenaventura after the catholic saint Bonaventure.
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