The Rediscovery of New Mexico 1580-1594, the Explorations of Chamuscado, Espejo, Castano De Sosa, Morlete, and Leyva De Bonilla and Humana
Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1966. First Edition. Small Quarto. Item #019413
Volume III of the Coronado Historical Series. Between the famous expeditions of Coronado and Onate, five other, lesser known, reconnaissance entered the American Southwest. But after the disheartening reports f the Coronado party forty years earlier, what induced soldiers and Franciscan Friars to prospect the rumors of a better people, a better land somewhere in the distant north? 341pp., endpapers are maps, bound in maroon cloth, lettering gray. A fine, bright copy in clean, bright near fine dust jacket save for two small closed edge tears.
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