The Coronado expedition : from the distance of 460 years / edited by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flint, Richard, 1946-

Flint, Shirley Cushing.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554--Congresses.

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de.

Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Antiquities.

Spaniards.

Explorers.

History.

Discoveries in geography.

Southwest, New--Discovery and exploration--Spanish--Congresses.

Southwest, New.

Explorers--Southwest, New--History--16th century--Congresses.

Explorers--Spain--History--16th century--Congresses.

Spaniards--Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.

Southwest, New--Antiquities--Congresses.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Southwest, New--Congresses.

New Southwest.

Spain.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [2003]

Summary:

For the last century, our most important source on the actions and attitudes of both the Coronado expedition members and their wary and often unwilling Native American "hosts" has been provided by a rich documentary record generated by and resulting from the expedition. In recent years, documentary accounts have been increasingly augmented by archaeological evidence. For instance, the discovery in the late 1980s of a portion of a campsite of the Coronado expedition near Bernalillo, New Mexico, and the identification during the 1990s of a second campsite in Blanco Canyon, Floyd County, Texas, have significantly increased our knowledge of the expedition. Similarly, the location and analysis of hitherto unstudied documents and the reanalysis of previously known ones continue to modify our understanding of this pivotal event in the history of the Southwest. The essays in this volume bring multidisciplinary expertise to the study of the expedition.

In 1540 Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, the governor of Nueva Galicia in western Mexico, led an expedition of reconnaissance and expansion to a place called Cibola, far to the north in what is now New Mexico. The papers 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 an 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.

Contents:

Introduction: New Vantages on the Coronado Expedition / Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint 1

1. To See Such Marvels with My Own Eyes: Spanish Exploration in the Western Borderlands / John L. Kessell 11

2. Before the Coronado Expedition: Who Knew What and When Did They Know It? / William K. Hartmann, Richard Flint 20

3. The Financing and Provisioning of the Coronado Expedition / Shirley Cushing Flint 42

4. What's Missing from This Picture? The Alarde, or Muster Roll, of the Coronado Expedition / Richard Flint 57

5. Chichilticale: A Survey of Candidate Ruins in Southeastern Arizona / William K. Hartmann, Betty Graham Lee 81

6. Spanish Artifacts, a Trail, and a Diary: An Eighteenth-Century Trail from Sonora to Zuni, New Mexico / John H. Madsen 109

7. Jars Full of Shiny Metal: Analyzing Barrionuevo's Visit to Yuque Yunque / Ann E. Ramenofsky, C. David Vaughan 116

8. The Mystery of Coronado's Route from the Pecos River to the Llano Estacado / Harry C. Myers 140

9. Reconciling the Calendars of the Coronado Expedition: Tiguex to the Second Barranca, April and May 1541 / Richard Flint 151

10. Bison Hunters of the Llano in 1541: A Panel Discussion / Donald J. Blakeslee, Douglas K. Boyd, Richard Flint, Judith Habicht-Mauche, Nancy P. Hickerson, Jack T. Hughes, Carroll L. Riley 164

11. The War for the South Plains, 1500-1700 / Nancy P. Hickerson 187

12. The Jimmy Owens Site: New Perspectives on the Coronado Expedition / Donald J. Blakeslee, Jay C. Blaine 203

13. First Arrivals: Coronado, Hank Smith, and the Old Springs of the Llano Estacado / John Miller Morris 219

14. Spanish Crossbow Boltheads of Sixteenth-Century North America: A Comparative Analysis / Frank R. Gagne Jr. 240

15. Looking at a Mule Shoe: Sixteenth-Century Spanish Artifacts in Panama / Dee Brecheisen 253

16. Mapping, Measuring, and Naming Cultural Spaces in Castaneda's Relacion de la jornada de Cibola / Maureen Ahern 265

17. Two Colonies, Two Conquistadores: Francisco and Juan Vazquez de Coronado / Felix Barboza-Retana 290.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-326) and index.

ISBN:

0826329756

OCLC:

50809061