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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462047803321

Titolo

The Coronado expedition [[electronic resource] ] : from the distance of 460 years / / edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albuquerque, : University of New Mexico Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-59801-9

9786613910462

0-8263-2977-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FlintRichard <1946->

FlintShirley Cushing

Disciplina

979/.01

Soggetti

Explorers - Southwest, New - History - 16th century

Explorers - Spain - History - 16th century

Spaniards - Southwest, New - Antiquities

Excavations (Archaeology) - Southwest, New

Electronic books.

Southwest, New Discovery and exploration Spanish Congresses

Southwest, New Antiquities Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: New Vantages on the Coronado Expedition; 1: To See Such Marvels with My Own Eyes: Spanish Exploration in the Western Borderlands; 2: Before the Coronado Expedition: Who Knew What and When Did They Know It?; 3: The Financing and Provisioning of the Coronado Expedition; 4: What's Missing from This Picture? The Alarde, or Muster Roll, of the Coronado Expedition; 5: Chichilticale: A Survey of Candidate Ruins in Southeastern Arizona

13: First Arrivals: Coronado, Hank Smith, and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado14: Spanish Crossbow Boltheads of Sixteenth-Century North America: A Comparative Analysis; 15: Looking at a Mule Shoe: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Artifacts in Panama; 16: Mapping, Measuring, and Naming Cultural Spaces in Castañeda's Relación de la



jornada de Cíbola; 17: Two Colonies, Two Conquistadores: Francisco and Juan Vázquez de Coronado; References Cited; Contributors; Index; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

This varied study of documents from the 1540 exploration of what is now New Mexico takes a fresh look at the details of Coronado's expansion of the Spanish empire.