| Description |
xxxiv, 251 p. facsim., maps (part fold.) 19 cm. |
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March of America facsimile series, no. 13
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American explorers
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| Note |
Original t.p. reads: The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the city of Mexico to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the buffalo plains of Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska, as told by himself and his followers. Translated and edited with an introd. by George Parker Winship. New York, Allerton Book Co., MCMXXII. |
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The translations included in the present vol. are found, accompanied by an historical introd. and the Spanish text of Castañeda's narrative, in the editor's The Coronado expedition, 1540-1542 (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. 14th annual report, pt. 1, Washington, 1896, p. 329-613) The narrative of Castañeda is from a Spanish manuscript preserved in the New York Public Library. |
| Contents |
Introduction.--Itinerary of the Coronado expeditions, 1527-1547.--Translation of the narrative of Castañeda.--Translation of the letter from Mendoza to the King, April 17, 1540.--Translation of the letter from Coronado to Mendoza, August 3, 1540.--Translation of the Traslado de las nuevas.--Translation of the Relacion del suceso.--Translation of a letter from Coronado to the King, October 20, 1541.--Translation of the narrative of Jaramillo.--Translation of the report of Hernando de Alvarado.--Testimony concerning those who went on the expedition with Francisco Vazquez Coronado. |
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Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de, 1510-1554 -- Juvenile fiction
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Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
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| Added Author |
Casta˜neda de Najera, Pedro de, active 16th century.
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Coronado, Francisco Vasquez de, 1510-1554.
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Mendoza, Antonio de, 1492?-1552.
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Jaramillo, Juan.
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