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. — John Shaqi
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
The army is entertained by the citizens of Culiacan.
Mendoza receives the report of Melchior Diaz’ exploration, perhaps at
Jacona.
Coronado writes to Mendoza, giving an account of what has already
happened, and of the arrangements which he has made for the rest of
the journey. This letter has been lost.
[Sidenote: April 17]
Mendoza writes to the Emperor Charles V.
[Sidenote: April 22]
Coronado departs from Culiacan with about seventy-five horsemen and a
few footmen.
[Sidenote: April]
Coronado passes through Petatlan, Cinaloa, Los Cedros, [Sidenote:
May] Yaquemi, and other places mentioned by Jaramillo.
[Sidenote: May 9]
Alarcon sails from Acapulco to cooperate with Coronado.
The army starts from Culiacan and marches toward the Corazones or
Hearts valley.
[Sidenote: May 26]
Coronado leaves the valley of Corazones. He proceeds to
Chichilticalli, [Sidenote: June] passing Senora or Sonora and Ispa,
and thence crosses the Arizona wilderness, fording many rivers.
The army builds the town of San Hieronimo in Corazones valley.
[Sidenote: July 7]
Coronado reaches Cibola and captures the first city, the pueblo of
Hawikuh, which he calls Granada.
[Sidenote: July 11]
The Indians retire to their stronghold on Thunder mountain.
[Sidenote: July 15]
Pedro de Tovar goes to Tusayan or Moki, returning within thirty days.
[Sidenote: July 19]
Coronado goes to Thunder mountain and returns the same day.
[Sidenote: Aug. 3]
Coronado writes to Mendoza. He sends Juan Gallego to Mexico, and
Melchior Diaz to Corazones with orders for the army. Friar Marcos
accompanies them.
[Sidenote: Aug. 25 (?)]
Lopez de Cardenas starts to find the canyons of Colorado river, and
is gone about eighty days.
[Sidenote: Aug. 26]
Alarcon enters the mouth of Colorado river.
[Sidenote: Aug. 29]
Hernando de Alvarado goes eastward to Tiguex, on the Rio Grande, and
to the buffalo plains.
Pedro de Alvarado arrives in New Spain.
[Sidenote: Sept. 7]
Hernando de Alvarado reaches Tiguex.
Diaz and Gallego reach Corazones about the middle of September, and
the army starts for Cibola.
Coronado visits Tutahaco.
[Sidenote: September to January]
The army reaches Cibola, and goes thence to Tiguex for its winter
quarters. The natives in the Rio Grande pueblos revolt and are
subjugated. The Turk tells the Spaniards about Quivira.
[Sidenote: October]
Diaz starts from Corazones before the end of September, with
twenty-five men, and explores the country along the Gulf of
California, going beyond Colorado river.
Diego de Alcaraz is left in command of the town of San Hieronimo.
[Sidenote: Nov. 29]
Mendoza and Pedro de Alvarado sign an agreement in regard to common
explorations and conquests.
1541
[Sidenote: Jan. 8]
Diaz dies on the return from the mouth of the Colorado, and his
companions return to Corazones valley.
[Sidenote: March]
Alcaraz, during the spring, moves the village of San Hieronimo from
Corazones valley to the valley of Suya river.
[Sidenote: April 20]
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