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"This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hartmann, William K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2014.
Temas:
Cibola, Seven Cities of.
Spaniards > America > History.
Espagnols > Amérique > Histoire.
HISTORY > Latin America > Mexico.
HISTORY > General.
Cibola, Seven Cities of
Discoveries in geography > Spanish
Spaniards
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Mexico > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Amérique > Découverte et exploration espagnoles.
America
Mexico
West United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue : Simple Tales and Lost Truths
  • The Beginning : Cortes and the Gold of Mexico
  • Cortes Expands the Frontier
  • Shipwrecked in Unknown Country : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca and Friends
  • The New Viceroy Ponders the North
  • The Case of the "Lying Monk" : Marcos de Niza's Journey to the Seven Cities of Cíbola
  • Marcos Races Back to Mexico City
  • Cortes vs. the Viceroy : Discovering the Colorado River and "Country Enough for Many Years of Conquest"
  • To Cíbola by Land and Sea : The Coronado Entrada of 1540
  • Entering the Seven Cities of Cíbola
  • Meanwhile ... (On the Colorado River, in Spain, and in Mexico City)
  • Coronado Fights a War, Reaches Kansas, and Returns to Mexico
  • Aftermath : Impacts on Culture and Understanding.

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