Father Garces
1738-1781
In early 1776, he set out northward from Yuma Villages on the Colorado River on a journey that took him across the Mojave Desert to the Mission of San Gabriel. He was a master of finding guides who would escort him through their own lands.
Marker is on East Main Street / National Trails Highway (Business Interstate 15), on the right when traveling east.
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