The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years

by Richard Flint (Editor), Shirley Cushing Flint (Editor)

Overview

In 1540 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, the governor of Nueva Galicia in western Mexico, led an expedition of reconnaissance and expansion to a place called Cíbola, far to the north in what is now New Mexico. The essays collected in this book bring multidisciplinary expertise to the study of that expedition. Although scholars have been examining the Coronado expedition for over 460 years, it left a rich documentary record that still offers myriad research opportunities from a variety of approaches.

Volume contributors are from a range of disciplines including history, archaeology, Latin American studies, anthropology, astronomy, and geology. Each addresses as aspect of the Coronado Expedition from the perspectives of his/her field, examining topics that include analyses of Spanish material culture in the New World; historical documentation of finances, provisioning, and muster rolls; Spanish exploration in the Borderlands; Native American contact with Spanish explorers; and determining the geographic routes of the Expedition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826329769
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/15/2012
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Richard Flint is the author of No Settlement, No Conquest, The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (UNM Press); Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition; and The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva.


Shirley Cushing Flint is the co-editor and author of numerous articles and books. Her latest book project is No Mere Shadow: Faces of Widowhood in Early Colonial Mexico.

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction: New Vantages on the Coronado Expedition by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint
Chapter 1: To See Such Marvels with My Own Eyes: Spanish Exploration in the Western Borderlands by John L. Kessell Chapter 2: Before the Coronado Expedition: Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? By William K. Hartmann and Richard Flint
Chapter 3: The Financing and Provisioning of the Coronado Expedition, by Shirley Cushing Flint
Chapter 4: What's Missing from This Picture? The Alarde, or Muster Roll, of the Coronado Expedition by Richard Flint
Chapter 5: Chichilticale: A Survey of Candidate Ruins in Southeastern Arizona by William K. Hartmann and Betty Graham Lee
Chapter 6: Spanish Artifacts, a Trail, and a Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Trail from Sonora to Zuni, New Mexico by John H. Madsen
Chapter 7: Jars Full of Shiny Metal: Analyzing Barrionuevo's Visit to Yuque Yunque by Ann F. Ramenofsky and C. David Vaughan
Chapter 8: The Mystery of Coronado's Route from the Pecos River to the Llano Estacado by Harry C. Myers
Chapter 9: Reconciling the Calendars of the Coronado Expedition: Tiguex to the Second Barranca, April and May 1541 by Richard Flint
Chapter 10: Bison Hunters of the Llano in 1541: A Panel Discussion by Donald J. Blakeslee, Douglas K. Boyd, Richard Flint, Judith Habicht-Mauche, Nancy P. Hickerson, Jack T. Hughes, and Carroll L. Riley
Chapter 11: The War for the South Plains, 1500-1700 by Nancy P. Hickerson Chapter 12: The Jimmy Owens Site: New Perspectives on the Coronado Expedition by Donald J. Blakeslee and Jay C. Blaine
Chapter 13: First Arrivals: Coronado, Hank Smith, and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado by John Miller Morris
Chapter 14: Spanish Crossbow Boltheads of Sixteenth-Century North America: A Comparative Analysis by Frank R. Gagné Jr.
Chapter 15: Looking at a Mule Shoe: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Artifacts in Panama by Dee Brecheisen
Chapter 16: Mapping, Measuring, and Naming Cultural Spaces in Castañeda's Relación de la jornada de Cíbola by Maureen Ahern
Chapter 17: Two Colonies, Two Conquistadores: Francisco and Juan Vázquez de Coronado by Felix Barboza-Retana
References Cited
Contributors
Index