"The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva" is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organized European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico.
In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle.
The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of...
"The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva" is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerni...
Only two years after the Coronado Expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on the native people Coronado encountered. The documents that record that investigation are at the heart of this book. These depositions are as fresh as today's news. Published both in the original Spanish and in English translation, they provide an unparalleled wealth of information about the Indians' responses to the Europeans and the attitudes of the Europeans toward the native peoples.
Only two years after the Coronado Expedition to what is now New Mexico, Spanish officials conducted an inquiry into the effects of the expedition on t...
