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Appendix 2 Biographical Data Alarcón, Hernando de Claimed as a native ofTrujillo in Extremadura, Hernando de Alarcón carne to the New World in the company of the newly appointed viceroy Antonio de Mendoza in 1535. From January 1538 until early 1540 he served as escudero or squire in the viceroys personalguard. In 1540 and again in 1541 he was dispatched by the viceroy to lead sea-borne support for the expedition toTierra Nueva. In both cases,the planned rendezvous with the land expedition led by Vázquez de Coronado never occurred, írustrated by the realities of North American geography and the Mixtón War, a massive native uprising in Jalisco. Display, Convento de la Coria,Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain, May 1998; Bermúdez Plata, Pasajeros, 2: no. 1261; AGÍ,Justicia, 259, Pieza 2; New York Public Library, Rich Collection, no. 63, Primera Parte, Capítulo 6; Biblioteca del Escorial, Códice &>II-7, Doc. no. LXVIL Alcaraz, Diego de During the expedition to Tierra Nueva, Diego de Alcaraz was left in command of the Spanish settlement of San Gerónimo by Melchor Díaz in 1540. His behavior there aroused the iré of the Indians of the área,who in 1541 attacked and destroyed the town, killing Alcaraz and several other Spaniards. One of the charges eventually lodged against Vázquez de Coronado was that he had allowed such an unsuitable person to be put in charge at San Gerónimo. Prior to the expedition, Diego de Alcaraz and his brother Juan had both been residents of Culiacán. In 1536, while captain of a slaving patrol, probably in modern northern Sinaloa, he had met and treated roughly the survivors ofthe Narváez expedition to La Florida and their large following of indigenous people. New York Public Library, Rich Collection, no. 63, Primera Parte, Capítulo 10 and Tercera Parte, Capítulo 3; Hammond and Rey,Narratives, 104; Bolton, Coronado, 12. BiographicalData 547 Alvarado, Hernando de Hernando de Alvarado was captain of artillery during the expedition to Tierra Nueva. In September 1540, Vázquez de Coronado gave Alvarado an eighty-day commission to take 20 men and go to Tiguex, Cicuique, and the buffalo plains. It was Alvarado and his ecclesiastical companion fray Juan de Padilla who recommended that the expedition winter atTiguex. And it was he who first heard the stories of wealth at Quivira. In an effort to learn the truth about Quivira, he held the Indians Bigotes, the cacique, El Turco, and Ysopete captive. He was accused of having set dogs on Bigotes. As a result of Lorenzo deTejadas investigation, charges stemming from the attack were recommended against Alvarado. However, none is known to have been filed. Alvarado wasborn in 1516 in La Montaña, Santander, Spain, and diedJuly 16,1550. He arrived in Nueva España in 1528with the returning Hernán Cortés. In 1547he testified in México City on behalfof García López de Cárdenas during the Council of the Indiess investigation of his conduct during the expedition to Tierra Nueva. At that time, Alvarado was a vecino of México City. AGÍ, Guadalajara, 5, R. 1, N. 7; New York Public Library, Rich Collection, no. 63, Primera Parte, Capítulo 12; Victor M. Álvarez, Diccionario de Conquistadores (México: Instituto Nacional de Antropología y Historia, 1975), 1:25; AGÍ,Justicia, 1021,N. 2, Pieza 6;AGÍ, Justicia, 1021,N. 2, Pieza 5; Icaza, Conquistadoresy Pobladores, 2: no.1221. Arellano,Tristán de [Lunay] Don Tristán de Luna y Arellano, known as Arellano during the expedition to Tierra Nueva, was in charge of the body of the expedition. In this role, he led the bulk of the Spaniards, their livestock, and many of the Mexican Indians from Culiacán to Cíbola, from Cíbola to Tiguex, and from the buffalo plains back toTiguex. He established the Spanish outpost of San Gerónimo at Corazones and later moved it to the Valley of Señora. Arellano became maestre de campo of the entire expedition following the injury of García López de Cárdenas in a fall in the summer of 1541. Arellano was born at Borobia in Castile, Spain, about 1514.He carne to Nueva España in 1527. In 1547 he married the wealthywidow doña Isabel de Rojas.Through her,he acquired several encomiendas. He also had at least one sugar mili and an estancia. In 1559-1561 Luna y Arellano served as captain general of...

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