The Lost Cities of El Norte: Coronado's Quest, the Unconquered West, and the Birth of American Indian Resistance

"Peter Stark is a uniquely gifted storyteller.” –DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN

By the bestselling author of Astoria, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of "one of history’s classic sagas of adventure and first contact" (Hampton Sides): Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast, unconquered North American interior—“El Norte Misterioso."

In 1540, the grandest exploring expedition ever assembled in the Americas paraded north from the ruins of the Aztec capital...