CORONADO

Details details. Logs, landscapes. Who needs ‘em when gold dust is in the air, or even worse: NOT in the air. - No, I wish as much as anybody to see this stuff, but what can you do. I guess you had to be there. The guy who got as much down about this as anybody wrote this bit:

Pedro de Castañeda, “Relación de la jornada de Cíbola … ,” Nacera, ~1562, trans. George Parker Winship, The Coronado Expedition 1540-1542, (Washington: Bureau of American Ethnology, 1896), p. 490:

They gave the general a written account of what they had seen, because one Pedro de Sotomayor had gone with Don Garcia Lopez as chronicler for the army.

And that’s it. Sorry. All the way around.

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