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xvii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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The historic 1540-1542 expedition of Captain-General Francisco Vasquez de Coronado is popularly remembered as a luckless party of exploration which wandered the American Southwest and then blundered onto the central Great Plains of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The expedition, as historian John M. Hutchins relates in Coronado's Well-Equipped Army: The Spanish Invasion of the American Southwest, was a military force of about 1,500 individuals, made...
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xiii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"In 1540 Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, the governor of Nueva Galicia in western Mexico, led an expedition of reconnaissance and expansion to a place called Cibola, far to the north in what is now New Mexico. The papers collected in this book bring multidisciplinary expertise to the study of that expedition."
"Volume contributors are from a range of disciplines including history, archaeology, Latin American studies, anthropology, astronomy, and geology....
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352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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English
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"Guided by myths of golden cities and worldly rewards, policy makers, conquistador leaders, and expeditionary aspirants alike came to the new world in the sixteenth century and left it a changed land. Came Men on Horses follows two conquistadors -- Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate -- on their journey across the southwest. Driven by their search for gold and silver, both Coronado and Oñate committed atrocious acts of violence...
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480 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Forced to battle extremes of heat and cold,...
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