FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE See also:

• FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE CORONADO (c. 1500-c. 1545)

CORONADO (c. 1500-c. 1545)  , See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish explorer of the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south-western See also:

• PART

part of the See also:

• UNITED

United States of See also:

• AMERICA

America . He accompanied See also:

• ANTONIO
• ANTONIO (1429—1498)
• ANTONIO, NICOLAS (1617-1684)

Antonio de See also:

• MENDOZA
• MENDOZA, ANTONIO HURTADO DE (1593?-1644)
• MENDOZA, DIEGO HURTADO DE (1503-1575)
• MENDOZA, PEDRO GONZALEZ DE (1428-1495)

Mendoza to New See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain in 1535; by a brilliant See also:

• MARRIAGE

marriage, became a leading See also:

• GRANDEE (Span. Grande)

grandee, and in 1539 was appointed See also:

• GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

governor of the See also:

• PROVINCE
• PROVINCE (Lat. provincia; perhaps a contraction of providentia)

province of New See also:

• GALICIA (Ger. Galizien; Pol. Halicz)
• GALICIA (the ancient Gallaecia or Callaecia, KaMauci,a or KaXau da)

Galicia . The See also:

• REPORT (O.Fr. report or raport, modern rapport, from O.Fr. reporter, mod. rap porter, Lat. reportare, to bring back, in poetical use only, of bringing back an account, news, &c.)

report presented by Fray Marcos de Niza concerning the " Seven cities of Cibola " (now identified almost certainly with the Zuni See also:

• PUEBLOS

pueblos of New See also:

• MEXICO
• MEXICO (Span. Mejico, or Mexico,)
• MEXICO, FEDERAL DISTRICT OF
• MEXICO, GULF OF

Mexico) aroused See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• INTEREST

interest in Mexico; Melchior See also:

• DIAZ, NARCISSE VIRGILIO (18(38-1876)
• DIAZ, PORFIRIO (183o– )

Diaz was sent See also:

• LATE

late in 1539 to retrace Fray Marcos's route and report on his See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story; and an expedition under See also:

• CORONADO, FRANCISCO VASQUEZ DE (c. 1500-c. 1545)

Coronado See also:

• LEFT

left Compostela for the " Seven Cities " in See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1540 . This expedition consisted of a See also:

• PROVISION (Lat. provisio)

provision See also:

• TRAIN (M. Eng. trayn or trayne, derived through Fr. from Late Lat. trahinare, to drag, draw, Lat. trahere, cf. trail, trace, ultimately from the same source)

train and droves of live-stock; several See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred friendly See also:

• INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians, Spanish footmen, and more than 250 horsemen . Coronado, with a part of this force, captured the " Seven Cities." The fabled See also:

• WEALTH

wealth, however, was not there . In the autumn (1540) Coronado was joined by the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army . Meanwhile exploring parties were sent out: Tusayan, the See also:

• HOPI

Hopi or Moki (Moqui) See also:

• COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of See also:

• NORTH
• NORTH, BARONS
• NORTH, MARIANNE (1830—1890)
• NORTH, ROGER (1653-1734)
• NORTH, SIR THOMAS (1535?-16o1?)

north-eastern See also:

• ARIZONA (from the Spanish-Indian Arizonac, of unknown meaning,—possibly " few springs,"-the name of an 18th-century mining camp in the Santa Cruz valley, just S. of the present border of Arizona)

Arizona, was visited; See also:

• GARCIA
• GARCIA (DEL POPOLO VICENTO), MANOEL (1775-1832)

Garcia See also:

• LOPEZ, CARLOS ANTONIO (1790-1862)

Lopez de See also:

• CARDENAS (San Juan de Dios de Cardenas)

Cardenas discovered and described the See also:

• GRAND

Grand See also:

• CANYON (Anglicized form of Span. canon, a tube, pipe or cannon; the Spanish form being also frequently written)

Canyon of the See also:

• COLORADO

Colorado; and expeditions were sent along the Rio Grande (Tuguez), where the army wintered . The Indians revolted but were put down . The army, reinspirited by the tales of a plains-See also:

• INDIAN

Indian slave about vast herds of cows (bison) on the plains, and about an Eldorado called " Quivira " far to the N.E., started thither in See also:

• APRIL

April 1541, and, with a few horsemen, penetrated at least to what is now central See also:

• KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas . Here Coronado found a few permanent settlements of Indians; in See also:

• OCTOBER

October he was again on the Rio Grande; and in the See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring of 1542 he led his followers See also:

• HOME
• HOME, DANIEL DUNGLAS (1833-1886)
• HOME, EARLS OF

home . Thereafter he practically disappears from See also:

• HISTORY

history . The first description of the bison and the See also:

• PRAIRIE (adopted from the Fr. prairie, a meadow-tract. Late Lat. prataria, Lat. pratum, meadow)

prairie plains, the first trustworthy See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the Zuni pueblos, the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the Grand Canyon, a vast increase of the nominal dominion of Spain and See also:

• CHRISTIANITY

Christianity (the priests did not return from Cibola), and a notable addition to See also:

• GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical knowledge, which, however, was See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long forgotten, were the results of this expedition; which is, besides, for its duration and the vast. distance covered, over mountains, See also:

• DESERT

desert and plains, one of the most remarkable expeditions in the history of See also:

• AMERICAN

American discovery .

In connexion with it, in 1540, Hernando de See also:

• ALARCON, HERNANDO DE
• ALARCON, JUAN RUIZ DE (1518 ?-1639)
• ALARCON, PEDRO ANTONIO DE (1833-1891)

Alarcon ascended the Gulf of See also:

• CALIFORNIA
• CALIFORNIA, LOWER (Baja California)
• CALIFORNIA, UNIVERSITY OF

California to its See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head and the Colorado riv9r for a long distance above its mouth . 1 He was later killed for deception, and confessed that the Pecos Indians induced him to lure Coronado to destruction.185 All the essential See also:

• SOURCES

sources with a See also:

• CRITICAL (in alphabetical order of authors)

critical narrative are available in G . P . Winship's The Coronado Expedition (in the 14th Report of the United States See also:

• BUREAU (a Fr. word from burel or bureau, a coarse cloth used for coverings)

Bureau of See also:

• ETHNOLOGY

Ethnology, for 1892-1893, See also:

• WASHINGTON
• WASHINGTON (or WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE)
• WASHINGTON, BOOKER TALIAFERRO (c. 1859– )
• WASHINGTON, BUSHROD (1762-1829)
• WASHINGTON, GEORGE (1732-1799)

Washington, 1896), except the Tratado del descubrimiento de See also:

• LAS

las Yndias y sa conquesta of Juan See also:

• SUAREZ, FRANCISCO (1548-1617)

Suarez de Peralta (written in the last third of the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, republished at See also:

• MADRID

Madrid, 1878) . See also especiall} Justo Zaragoza, Noticias See also:

• HISTORICAL

historical de la Nueva Espana (Madrid, 1878), the various writings of A . F . A . See also:

• BANDELIER, ADOLPH FRANCIS ALPHONSE (184o- )

Bandelier (q.v.) ; See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General J . H . See also:

• SIMPSON, MATTHEW (1811-1884)
• SIMPSON, SIR JAMES YOUNG (1811-1870)
• SIMPSON, THOMAS (1710-1761)

Simpson in Smithsonian Institution Report (Washington, 1869), with an excellent See also:

• MAP
• MAP (or MAPES), WALTER (d. c. 1208/9)

map; and Winship for a full bibliography . H . H .

See also:

• BANCROFT, GEORGE (1800—1891)
• BANCROFT, HUBERT HOWE (1832– )
• BANCROFT, RICHARD (1544–161o)
• BANCROFT, SIR SQUIRE (1841– )

Bancroft's account in his Pacific States (vols . 5, 10, 12) is less authoritative .