The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-09

the Ideal man OF medicine. and from
152S to 1886. eight long years. Vaca
wandered from place to place and from
tribe to tribe. sometimes a peddler
often an artificer, part of the time a
prisoner and slave, always the greatest
medicine man. until he came In con-
tact with Cow Nation" living ON the
plains. probably Apaches, not more
than $50 or 200 miles north from the
coast. -'0
Ihese people were Of a hunter nation.
subsIsting on the meat of the buffalo
anc dressed in the skins. from which
they also built lodges and made moe
caslns, using knives, spears and arrow
points of Clipped flint. This appears
TO be the original discovery of the
American buffalo, by Vaca, the first of
white men to learn OF the Great piains
ana the herds of wild cows"
Vacas wanderings finally brought
him and his three companions, Alfonso
del Castillo Maldonado, Endres Dor
antes and the negro Eistevan. to the
spanish settlements in Mexico, uncIad
except in tanned skins and unkempt
an astonishing revelation to their coun-
trymen, who supposed they had all
persisted
Vaca returned to Spain, relating his
wonderful experiences, and the negro
was purchased as a slave by Mendoza
y.
When, in 1889, it was determined to
send out Francisco Vazquez de Cor
onado to follow up the advantages
supposed to inure from the discoveries
by Vaca, Esteven, the negro, as a guide
TO Friar Marcos de MIA, a Francis
can. first reached the site of the Seven
cities of Cfbola, the puebos of New
Mexico. and was shot by Zunis for
Righteousness.
In 1541 Coronado and his army har-
ing marched from Compostela the year
previous, reached the great plains and
came in contact with the Cow nation"
reported by Vaca as living among the
vast herds of buffalo, then 50 numer-
Gus that Coronado and his entire army
subsisted upon the meat only forty
eight years after Columbus landed on
the islands of the West Indies 10
reach the great plains Coronado had
passed the Pueblo regions Of Arizona
and New Mexico, discovered the Grand
Canon Of the Colorado, bridged the
Canadian river northeast from Albu.
querque, and on SIS. Peter and Paurs
day Dune 29, 1541, crossed the Ar
karsas river on his way to the fabu-
lousy rich cities of Quivira, only to
find them built of wigWams by the
widest bands of savage Indians he
had yet discovered in his remarka BILE
march of $50 leagues.
He was surrounded on all sides for
more than 100 days by vast herds
of buffalo, then ranging from Dakota
to Texas, during which time some Of
his men, mounted on horses, while
hunting the buffalo. We're lost and
never returned. Notwithstanding the
firing of signals, undoubtedly meeting
death among the herds surrounding
them.
1t was not long after the return Of
Coronado to Mexico that the first
sketches of the buffalo found place
in Spanish history, two of which, Go
mera, 1854. and Thevet, 1883 are re-
produced with also the sketch APP
pearing in Hennepin's Relation of 1904,
concerning the discovery of the Falls
of ST Anthony of Padua.
From this continent the buffalo has
been ruthlessly eXterminated, the In
dian is disappearing and the Spanish
are about to disappear from any fur
Their authority, yet what a history has
been written from those three namesi