The journey of Coronado
By: by Pedro Castañeda.
Contributors: Castañeda de Nájera, Pedro de, 16th cent.; Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554.; Mendoza, Antonio de, 1492?-1552.; Jaramillo, Juan Camilo.
Series: March of America facsimile series,; no. 13; American explorers
Publisher: University Microfilms
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Ann Arbor [Mich.]
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 1510-1554.; Southwest, New -- Description and travel.
Notes: Original t.p. reads: The journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the city of Mexico to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and the buffalo plains of Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska, as told by himself and his followers. Translated and edited with an introd. by George Parker Winship. New York, Allerton Book Co., MCMXXII.
The translations included in the present vol. are found, accompanied by an historical introd. and the Spanish text of Castañeda's narrative, in the editor's The Coronado expedition, 1540-1542 (U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology. 14th annual report, pt. 1, Washington, 1896, p. 329-613) The narrative of Castañeda is from a Spanish manuscript preserved in the New York Public Library.
Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Itinerary of the Coronado expeditions, 1527-1547.; title: Translation of the narrative of Castañeda.; title: Translation of the letter from Mendoza to the King, April 17, 1540.; title: Translation of the letter from Coronado to Mendoza, August 3, 1540.; title: Translation of the Traslado de las nuevas.; title: Translation of the Relacion del suceso.; title: Translation of a letter from Coronado to the King, October 20, 1541.; title: Translation of the narrative of Jaramillo.; title: Translation of the report of Hernando de Alvarado.; title: Testimony concerning those who went on the expedition with Francisco Vázquez Coronado.