The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva

by Flint, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780870817663
• ISBN10: 0870817663
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Colorado

Summary

The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organised European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors.

Table of Contents

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS	ix
PREFACE	xi
INTRODUCTION
Carroll L. Riley	1	(24)
Part I: Hypotheses and Evidence
1 A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: General Comments
Joseph P. Sánchez	25	(5)
2 The Coronado Documents: Their Limitations
Charles W. Polzer, S.J.	30	(7)
3 Coronado Fought Here: Crossbow Boltheads as Possible Indicators of the 1540-1542 Expedition
Diane Lee Rhodes	37	(10)
4 Armas de la Tierra: The Mexican Indian Component of Coronado Expedition Material Culture
Richard Flint	47	(14)
Part II: Precedents, 1538-1539
5 Pathfinder for Coronado: Reevaluating the Mysterious Journey of Marcos de Niza
William K. Hartmann	61	(23)
6 Cibola, from fray Marcos to Coronado
Madeleine Turrell Rodack	84	(12)
7 The Search for Coronado's Contemporary: The Discovery, Excavation, and Interpretation of Hernando de Soto's First Winter Encampment
Charles R. Ewen	96	(16)
Part III: The Coronado Expedition, Compostela to Cibola
MAPS OF THE REGION	112	(25)
8 A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Compostela to Cibola
Joseph P. Sánchez	115	(9)
9 Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's Northward Trek Through Sonora
Jerry Gurulé	124	(13)
10 The Relevance of Ethnology to the Routing of the Coronado Expedition in Sonora
Daniel T. Reff	137	(10)
11 An Archeological Perspective on the Sonora Entrada
Richard A. Pailes	147	(11)
12 The 76 Ranch Ruin and the Location of Chichilticale
William A. Duffen and William K. Hartmann	158	(20)
Part IV: The Coronado Expedition, Cibola to Rio de Cicuye
MAP OF THE REGION	178	(1)
13 A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Cibola to Rio de Cicúye
Joseph P. Sánchez	179	(8)
14 Zuni on the Day the Men in Metal Arrived
Edmund J. Ladd	187	(8)
15 The Geography of Middle Rio Grande Pueblos Revealed by Spanish Explorers, 1540-1598
Elinore M. Barrett	195	(14)
16 Let the Dust Settle: A Review of the Coronado Campsite in the Tiguex Province
Bradley J. Vierra and Stanley M. Hordes	209	(11)
17 The Coronado Expedition: Cicúye to the Rio de Cicúye Bridge
Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint	220	(14)
Part V: The Coronado Expedition, Rio de Cicuye to Quivira
MAP OF THE REGION	234	(1)
18 A Historiography of the Route of the Expedition of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado: Rio de Cicúye to Quivira
Joseph P. Sánchez	235	(17)
19 Which Barrancas? Narrowing the Possibilities
Donald J. Blakeslee	252	(15)
20 The Teya Indians of the Southwestern Plains
Carroll L. Riley	267	(20)
21 "Por alli no ay losa ni se hace," Gilded Men and Glazed Pottery on the Southern Plains
David H. Snow	287	(17)
22 A Large Canyon Like Those of Colima
W. Michael Mathes	304	(5)
23 Una Barranca Grande: Recent Archeological Evidence and a Discussion of Its Place in the Coronado Route
Donald J. Blakeslee, Richard Flint, and Jack T. Hughes	309	(12)
CONCLUDING REMARKS	321	(2)
REFERENCES CITED	323	(22)
CONTRIBUTORS	345	(4)
INDEX	349