(The snow-covered, saw-toothed mountain range)
This map above can be found here.
Buenaventura River
This myth/legend existed for nearly 100 years before it was finally disproven by explorer John Charles Frémont.
The non-existent Buenaventura Rivera was named for Saint Bonaventure.
Explorers in the 18th century came out west, following various rivers and water passages, incorrectly thinking they were following one great river that went from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.
They believed this river passed through the Sierra Nevada. Many maps of the era even indicate that such a river existed, thereby becoming a thing of dispute and legend.
Frémont's expedition in 1846 from the Rocky Mountains to Sacramento, through the Sierra Nevada, only confirmed what had been more-or-less established by that point -- that there was no Buenaventura River -- no great river from the Rockies to the Pacific.
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