Club Member Kathy Myrick book talk--The Adventures of Scarlett of Arboles

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…