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In 1776, Silvestre Vélez De Escalante encountered the Green River , a southward-flowing Tributary of the Colorado . He gave it the name ''San Buenaventura''. His Cartographer Barnardo De Miera showed the river as heading southwesterly rather than southward. Later and even more speculative cartographers connected it to the Pacific Ocean, in or near San Francisco Bay . Its existence or non-existence was a matter of controversy until in 1843, John Charles Frémont led a perilous expedition from the Columbia River to Sacramento, California via the Sierra Nevada , definitively proving its non-existence. REFERENCES
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