A narrative of the expedition led by Coronado through Mexico, Arizona, New Mexico and up to Kansass in the search for the 7 cities of Cibola and gold. They didn't find riches, but this is a fascinating account of travel and among the first written records describing a world not yet written. The foot

The primary document, the journal by Castaneda, translated in the book is amazing. A detailed first contact, first person narrative. The secondary material by Winship is poor. It fails to address the trial Coronado faced upon returning to New Spain. It matter-of-factly accepts Coronado's poor treatm

I share Coronado's disappointment, because his failure to find the seven cities of gold makes his story pretty dull. The accounts written by soldiers with Cortez or Pizarro were much more interesting to read, because they found much more interesting stuff. Parts of this were good, but mostly it's a

The re-print sucks. There were missing pages and pages out of order throughout the book. I found a digital copy of both the untranslated and English versions and printed the full text. Between the three versions I was able to sort out the above problems. This is (and reads) like any military field r

When I was younger, all I really knew of Coronado was that young Indiana Jones found a gold cross from his expedition inside a cave, which was promptly stolen by some random bad(ass) dude. ("Ya lost today, kid. But that doesn't mean you have to like it...") Then a few years ago, when taking a tour o