Excerpt from Interesting Information for Visitors to Santa Fe, and to the Oldest Church Coronado now made Tiguex the center of his opera tions Expeditions were started in all directions, one going so far northeast that it reached the Missouri river, but the rich cities they were in search of were not found. Coronado was So completely tired outand disappointed that he determined to return to Mexico; but his men were so attached to the country (new Mexico) that they did not wish to leave it. Two of the Franciscans offered to ...
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Excerpt from Interesting Information for Visitors to Santa Fe, and to the Oldest Church Coronado now made Tiguex the center of his opera tions Expeditions were started in all directions, one going so far northeast that it reached the Missouri river, but the rich cities they were in search of were not found. Coronado was So completely tired outand disappointed that he determined to return to Mexico; but his men were so attached to the country (new Mexico) that they did not wish to leave it. Two of the Franciscans offered to go with him and after a great deal of difficulty he persuaded many of the sol diers and Indians to join him and a start was made and they set out to return to Mexico, but history tells us that Coronado arrived in Mexico with only 100 men including himself, and the two priests. He had taken 1100 men from Mexico, and returned with only 100. Of the 1000 that were missing, some were killed, some died here and there, and the others re mained in New Mexico. Sixty-five years afterwards, when Ofiate arrived from San Gabriel with the rem nant of his colony to settle in Tiguex, he found it occu pied by many descendants of Coronado's expedition. It is evident that had Coronado's men entirely aban doned Tiguex it would have been re occupied by the Tegua Indians, or by other Indians, and Onate would have been obliged to conquer it, but it was not neces sary. They were friends and he received a hearty welcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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