Club Member Kathy Myrick will talk about her book "Scarlett of Arboles"
Tue, Feb 18
|Four Leaves Winery
Join us for Kathy Myrick's Book Talk and Book Signing for "Scarlett of Arboles" 250 years later! She will be sharing the stories of her adventures on this photographic journey with her dog Scarlett; traversing the same trail as Dominguez and Escalante.
Time & Location
Feb 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Four Leaves Winery, 528 Main Ave, Durango, CO 81301, USA
Guests
About the Event
PHOTOGRAPHER KATHY MYRICK RELEASES BOOK ON THE DOMINGUEZ-ESCALANTE EXPEDITION OF 1776
DURANGO, CO - It took bold men to ride into a bold land – a land of raging rivers, burning deserts, towering mountains, and rugged canyons. The land of the Southwest, through which Spanish explorers Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante traveled in 1776, was not just a place of harsh physical challenges but also a land of astounding beauty, a place of awe-inspiring landscapes. Theirs was a courageous journey through terra incognita where no white person had dared to tread before.
Photographer Kathy Myrick and her Australian Shepherd, Scarlett, documented the 1,700-mile Dominguez-Escalante Trail for over a decade. Following the original map drawn by expedition cartographer Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco and carrying Fray Angelico Chavez’s translation of Father Escalante’s daily journal, Myrick photographed the mountains, monuments, waterways, wildlife, and wildflowers that the explorers would have…