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Elinore M. Barrett is a professor emeritus in the Department of Geography at the University of New Mexico. Her special interest is the historical geography of Latin America and the American Southwest. In 2002 her volume Conquest and Catastrophe: Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries was published by University of New Mexico Press. Donald J. Blakeslee, associate professor of anthropology at Wichita State University, is an archeologist and ethnohistorian who studies Plains Indians and their history. His Along Ancient Trails: The Mallet Expedition of 1739 was published by the University Press of Colorado in 1995. Since that same year, Blakeslee has been directing archeological investigations at the Jimmy Owens Site, a Coronado expedition campsite in the South Plains of Texas. William A. Duffen conducted the only professional excavation at the 76 Ranch Ruin, Arizona, a candidate to be the Chichilticale of the Coronado documents. He also worked at Tuzigoot National Monument and Tonto National Monument. He headed the WPA excavations at the Morhiss Mound Site, Victoria, Texas. He taught high school history in Tucson until his retirement. Charles R. Ewen is associate professor of anthropology and associate director of the Institute for Historical and Cultural Research at East Carolina University. He was co-director of the excavations conducted at the Martin Site, the location of Hernando de Soto’s encampment at Anhaica Apalache within modern Tallahassee, Florida. In 1998 he published, with John H. Hann, Hernando de Soto Among the Apalachee:The Archaeology of the FirstWinter Encampment, released by the University Press of Florida. Richard Flint is currently director of the Center for the Study of Northern New Mexico and the Greater Southwest at New Mexico Highlands University. With his wife Shirley Cushing Flint, he directed the 1992 conference “Where Did the Encuentro Happen in the Southwest? Questions of the Coronado Expedition’s Route in the Southwest, 1540–1542” from which this book derives. In 2002 his Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition was published by Southern Methodist University Press. And in 2003 the University of New Mexico Press published The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of 460 Years, edited by both Flints. Shirley Cushing Flint is an independent historian. She is completing a book manuscript entitled The Estrada Women: The Power of Family Structure in Sixteenth-Century New Spain. She and her husband, Richard Flint, have recently completed an annotated, dual-language edition of 34 documents deriving from the Coronado expedition that will be published by Southern Methodist University Press. It is titled They Were Not Familiar With His Majesty, Nor Contributors 345 CONTRIBUTORS 346 Did They Wish to Be His Subjects: Documents of the Coronado Expedition. Together they also organized and directed a four-day conference in 2000, “Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition Through Documents and Artifacts,” held at New Mexico Highlands University and in Floyd County, Texas. Jerry Gurulé is a historian and linguist in the National Park Service’s Spanish Colonial Research Center located at the University of New Mexico. He is involved in many projects, including one currently focused on Hispanic contractors and employees at Fort Union, New Mexico. He is also on the staff of the Colonial Latin American Historical Review. William K. Hartmann is a Tucson planetary scientist, writer, and painter with an abiding interest in Southwest history. His research has involved planetary origin and evolution. He was co-investigator in NASA’s Mariner 9 mapping of Mars and is jointly the author of the leading theory of lunar origin. In 2002 he published a work of historical fiction dealing with fray Marcos de Niza’s 1539 trek titled Cities of Gold: A Novel of the Ancient and Modern Southwest, published by Forge Books. Stanley M. Hordes served for a number of years as the New Mexico state historian. Since 1985 he has operated a historical consulting firm, HMS Associates, Inc., specializing in litigation support, research, and expert witness testimony in land and water rights cases. He is currently researching “The Sephardic Legacy in New Mexico: A History of the Crypto-Jews,” a project sponsored by the Latin American Institute of the University of New Mexico, where he is an adjunct research professor. Jack T. Hughes was, until his death in 2001, considered the dean of Texas Panhandle archeology. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at West Texas A&M University. His numerous publications include Prehistory of the Caddoan-Speaking Tribes. He was instrumental in defining the Garza and Tierra Blanca Complexes...

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