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Brushed metal plaque № 48997

Las Vegas, NV, United States

Rafael Rivera. This historical marker commemorates the valor and service of pioneer scout Rafael Rivera, the first European American of record to view and traverse Las Vegas Valley, who scouted for Antonio Armijo’s sixty-man trading party from Abiquiu, New Mexico. In January 1830, young Rivera ascen

ded Vegas wash twenty miles east of this marker and blazed a route to the Mojave River in California by way of the Armargosa River.Rivera’s pioneering route became a vital link in the Old Spanish Trai

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