In 1776, two Spanish friars embarked upon an adventure that would lead them through the southwest corner of Colorado and along the Western Slope. The Expedition was led by two Franciscan priests, Domínguez and Escalante, accompanied by 10 others, including a mapmaker, Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco. This important but forgotten Colorado story started in the southwest corner of our state and then it turned north along the Western Slope. They reported on what they saw and experienced in a journal. Other explorers, including Lewis & Clark, later used Miera’s maps from Domínguez and Escalante’s Journal.  In anticipation of the 250^th anniversary of the expedition, the Domínguez-Escalante Expedition Education Project (DEEEP) is keeping their story alive via its educational website.