The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542.: Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.Winship, George Parker
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The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542.: Excerpted from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1.
Winship, George Parker
Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554; Southwest, New -- Description and travel
Chapter 5, of Cicuye and the villages in its neighborhood, and
of how some people came to conquer this country … 523
Chapter 6, which gives the number of villages which were seen
in the country of the terraced houses, and their population …
524
Chapter 7, which treats of the plains that were crossed, of the
cows, and of the people who inhabit them … 526
Chapter 8, of Quivira, of where it is and some information
about it … 528
Third Part, which describes what happened to Francisco Vazquez
Coronado during the winter, and how he gave up the expedition
and returned to New Spain … 530
Chapter 1, of how Don Pedro de Tovar came from Señora with some
men, and Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas started back to New
Spain … 530
Chapter 2, of the general’s fall and of how the return to New
Spain was ordered … 531
Chapter 3, of the rebellion at Suya and the reasons the
settlers gave for it … 533
Chapter 4, of how Friar Juan de Padilla and Friar Luis remained
in the country and the army prepared to return to Mexico … 534
Chapter 5, of how the army left the settlements and marched to
Culiacan, and of what happened on the way … 537
Chapter 6, of how the general started from Culiacan to give
the viceroy an account of the army with which he had been
intrusted … 538
Chapter 7, of the adventures of Captain Juan Gallego while he
was bringing reenforcements through the revolted country … 540
Chapter 8, which describes some remarkable things that were
seen on the plains, with a description of the bulls … 541
Chapter 9, which treats of the direction which the army took,
and of how another more direct way might be found if anyone
was going to return to that country … 544
Translation of the letter from Mendoza to the King, April 17, 1540
… 547
Translation of the letter from Coronado to Mendoza, August 3, 1540
… 552
Translation of the Traslado de las Nuevas … 564
Relación postrera de Sívola … 566
Spanish text … 566
Translation … 568
Translation of the Relacion del Suceso … 572
Translation of a letter from Coronado to the King, October 20, 1541
… 580
Translation of the narrative of Jaramillo … 584
Translation of the report of Hernando de Alvarado … 594
Testimony concerning those who went on the expedition with
Francisco Vazquez Coronado … 596
A list of works useful to the student of the Coronado expedition …
599
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ILLUSTRATIONS
PLATE
XXXVIII. The New Spain and New Mexico country … 345
XXXIX. The Ulpius globe of 1542 … 349
XL. Sebastian Cabot’s map of 1544 … 353
XLI. Map of the world by Ptolemy, 1548 … 357
XLII. Battista Agnese’s New Spain, sixteenth century … 361
XLIII. The City of Mexico about 1550, by Alonzo de Santa Cruz … 365
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