Who were the first explorers in Nevada?

Answer 1

A Spanish explorer named Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was the first person to explorer the area that would be known as Nevada. Native Americans who lived in Nevada before this were the Koso, Pueblo, and Paiute tribes.

Answer 2

Although Spain claimed the Nevada region during the 1500s, no exploration occurred until the early 1800s. Native Americans living there at that time included the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes. During the 1820s, trappers from the Hudson Bay Company explored the Humboldt River. Jedediah Smith traveled across the Las Vegas valley and William Wolfskill blazed the Old Spanish Trail into California. Complete exploration of Nevada occurred during the 1840s; John C. Frémont explored and charted the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada. became a state in 1864

Answer 3

Aside from the Native Americans who explored the area now known as Nevada for about 12,000 years, Father Francisco Garces, a Spanish priest, visited the southern extremity of Nevada in 1776.

Jedediah Strong Smith was perhaps most notable among the first explorers for crossing the Great Basin and Mohave Desert in 1826. The party suffered an attack by Mohave Indians on the Colorado River, and returned across the central Nevada region in 1827. Smith's reports of the region were literate but rather discouraging because the party nearly died of hunger and thirst while native people avoided them.

Peter Skene Ogden of the Hudson Bay Company entered the northeast portion of the Nevada region in 1826, a few months prior to the traverse by Jedediah Smith. Ogden returned to find the Humboldt River in 1828 after crossing the Owyhee River country from Oregon. Ogden returned again to northern Nevada in spring of 1829, then again in fall of 1829 to cross the Carson and Walker Rivers and on to the Virgin and Colorado Rivers in southern Nevada, where the party was attacked by Mohave Indians. Other early fur hunters along the northern rivers had also reported conditions favorable for emigration on the California Trail, which was first used by pioneer wagons in 1841.

The 1833 expedition of Joseph R. Walker and Capt. L. E. de Bonneville entered Nevada's eastern side at a point north of Pilot Peak, crossed the Humboldt Sink, and traversed the Sierra Nevada into California. In spring 1834, the Walker party returned over the Sierra Nevada by what is now called Walker Pass and Owens Valley, then made their way up the Humboldt River and Bishop Creek on the route that later pioneers would follow.

In November 1829, a trading party led by Antonio Armijo left Abiquiu, New Mexico, and journeyed across southern Nevada via Las Vegas Valley and the Amargosa River to Los Angeles, California. This expedition established a commercial trade route later known as the Old Spanish Trail.

Reports from an exploration led by John C. Fremont and guided by Kit Carson in 1843-1844 were published by Congress, which began to popularize the possibilities for settlement and development of Natural Resources, as was intended for their expedition.

Answer 4

The first European to explore the area now Nevada was the Spaniard Francisco Tomas Garces in 1775- 1776.

Answer 5

Spaniard Fracisco Tomas Graces in 1775-1776 while eating a cheseburber

Answer 6

jededih smith whos face got ripped off by a bear and had his men sew it back on,

james beckworth who was poisoned peter skene ogden the one who looks like the hunch back of notre dame

Answer 7

Kit Carson and fremont

Answer 8

Kit Carson