The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska Page: 281 of 288
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THE JOURNEY OF CORONADO
force which the viceroy was sending for the
pacification of the country recently discov-
ered by the father provincial, Fray Marcos
de Niza, and that he had taken note of the
force as the men passed before him; and at
his request he had also been allowed to see
the list of names of those who were enrolled
in the army; and he declared that in all the
said force he did not recognize any other
citizens of Mexico who were going except
Domingo Martin, a married man, whom he
had sometimes seen living in Mexico, and
provided him with messengers; and one
Alonso Sanchez, who was going with his
wife and a son, and who was formerly a
shoemaker; and a young man, son of the
bachiller Alonso Perez, who had come only
a few days before from Salamanca, and who
had been sent to the war by his father on
account of his restlessness; and two or three
other workmen or tradespeople whom he had
seen at work in Mexico, although he did not
know whether they were citizens there; and
on his oath he did not see in the whole
army anyone else who was a citizen of Mex-
ico, although for about fourteen years he had
been a citizen and inhabitant of that city,
unless it was the captain-general, Francisco
Vazquez de Coronado, and Lopez de Sa-
maniego the army-master; and, moreover,
he declared that he felt certain that those
above mentioned were going of their own
free will, like all the rest.
Antonio Serrano de Cardona, one of the
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Compilation of translated texts describing the explorations of Coronado and his companions as they traveled in Central American and parts of present-day United States, with some supplementary historical notes for context.
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Winship, George Parker, 1871-1952. The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542, from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas and Nebraska, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth3161/m1/281/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .