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Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects."
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Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: "They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects." Edited, translated, and annotated by RICHARD FLINT and SHIRLEY CUSHING FLINT. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, Texas. 2005. xii + 746 pp., figures, maps, appendices, index. $75.00 (cloth, ISBN 0-87074-486-8).
The expedition Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led in the years 1540-1542 was by far the largest to that date of the European expeditions in...
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