CORONADO

Listen to this about the guy Coronado left in charge in Mexico during the Expedition:

Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains, (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1949), pp 407-8:

Cristobal de Onate, whose failure to receive a salary for his services as lieutenant-governor for Coronado in Nueva Galicia … [led to one of the charges against Coronado], became one of the wealthiest persons in America with the discovery in 1546 of rich mines at Zacatecas.

AURA

Why didn’t he get paid?

CORONADO

I don’t know. Maybe because Coronado ran out of dough? I don’t know. Is this a homework assignment?

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