Coronado

Herbert E. Bolton's classic of southwestern history first published in 1949 delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies Coronado and his men-the first Europeans to explore what are now Arizona and New Mexico-continued on to the buffalo-covered plains of Texas and into Oklahoma and Kansas. With documents in hand Bolton personally followed the path of the Coronado expedition providing readers with unsurpassed storytelling and meticulous research.