Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542
"They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects"
Publication Year: 2012
This volume is the first annotated, dual-language edition of thirty-four original documents from the Coronado expedition. Using the latest historical, archaeological, geographical, and linguistic research, historians and paleographers Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint make available accurate transcriptions and modern English translations of the documents, including seven never before published and seven others never before available in English. The volume includes a general introduction and explanatory notes at the beginning of each document.
Published by: University of New Mexico Press
Document 5: Decree of the King Appointing Vázquez de Coronado Governor of Nueva Galicia, April 18, 1539
Document 6: The Viceroy’s Instructions to Fray Marcos de Niza, November 1538, and Narrative Account by Fray Marcos de Niza, August 26, 1539
Document 7: Letters from Antonio de Mendoza and Rodrigo de Albornoz, October 1539
Document 8: Testimony of Witnesses in Habana Regarding Fray Marcos’s Discoveries, November 1539
Document 9: The Viceroy’s Appointment of Vázquez de Coronado to Lead the Expedition, January 6, 1540
Document 10: The King’s Confirmation of Vázquez de Coronado’s Appointment, June 11, 1540
Document 11: Testimony of Juan Bermejo and of Vázquez de Coronado’s Purchasing Agent, Juan Fernández Verdejo, 1552
Document 13: Record of Mexican Indians Participating in the Expedition, 1576
Document 18: Hernán Cortés’s Brief to Carlos V Concerning the Injuries Done to Him by the Viceroy of Nueva España, June 25, 1540
Document 20: Formation of a Company between Mendoza and Pedro de Alvarado, Tiripitío, November 29, 1540
Document 23: La Relación Postrera de Cíbola (Fray Toribio de Benavente’s Narrative), 1540s
Document 25: Letter from Viceroy Mendoza to Fernández de Oviedo, October 6, 1541
Document 28: The Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola, Pedro de Castañeda de Nájera’s Narrative, 1560s (copy, 1596)
Document 34: Vázquez de Coronado’s Petition for Recovery of Encomiendas, 1553
E-ISBN-13: 9780826351357
Print-ISBN-13: 9780826351340
Page Count: 760
Publication Year: 2012
OCLC Number: 792742388
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