Word: hermenegildo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First white man on record to enter what is now Nevada was Francisco Tomas Hermenegildo Garces, priest of the Order of St. Francis. Seeking a route to upper California from Sonora, Mexico, he crossed what is now the State's southwestern corner in 1775. Let Reader Edwards refer to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Dictionary of American Biography, C. A. Engelhardt's The Missions and Missionaries of California...
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