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Description:History of New Mexico.EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERYIt was tlie "impious lust for gold" that brought the region that forms the territorial basis of this volume into the light of history. The succession of events preceding the discovery is interesting. In 1519 Alvarez de Pirieda, a Spanish explorer, having followed the gulf coast from Florida to Mexico and thence back to the mouth of the Mississippi, was, as it seems, the first European to sail upon that broad river, but more important than that to our present discussion is the fact that he was author of the report that the Indians dwelling on the banks of that river wore gold ornaments. No doubt this statement was a fiction, but, without regard to its truth or the subsequent career of its author, the report became an origin of a series of historical incidents.Panfilo de Narvaez, aroused by Pineda's mention of gold ornaments on the Alississippi Indians, and eager to outrival the conquest of the great Cortez, obtained permission to conquer and govern all the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. His expedition, which left Cuba in March, 1528, resulted in complete failure, the ships being wrecked and scattered and all but four men losing their lives. One of these four was Cabeza de Vaca, whose narrative of his wanderings has preserved his name and deeds to history. After many strange wanderings and terrible sufferings, he and his companions—namely, two other Spaniards, Dorantes and Castillo Mal-donado, and a negro, named Stephen or "Little Stephen," crossed Texas and Chihuahua and Sonora, finally reaching the Spanish settlement at Culiacan, in May, 1536.According to Donaldson, Cabeza de Vaca passed in his journey through Taos, Laguna, Acoma and Zuhi, and thence to the Gila, touching almost all the now known pueblos. However, Donaldson's authority for this line of march is quite vague, even if it be admitted that he has any authority whatever. De Vaca made no notes during his journey, and the stories told by him and his company did not agree in many essential particulars. The stories of the experiences of de Vaca and his companion are now regarded by the true student as grossly exaggerated, possibly for some personal reason. They had been made slaves by the Indian tribes among whom they sojourned, and for vears had suffered from all sorts of privations. That they were the first Europeans to cross the continent is unquestioned: but there is absolutely no evidence to show that they traveled further north in the Rio Grande Valley than the site of El Paso, and it is extremely improbable that they struck the Gila. Wliy, when they were in search of their own race, should they select a mountainous rather than a comparatively level country? The most natural course for them to havetaken in their search for the Pacific Coast was through the northern part of Sonora.De Vaca did not pass through New jNIexico, but his journey disclosed the existence of a vast unexplored territory north of the land of the jMonte-zumas. This territory at once became the land of mystery and the seat of all the fabled kingdoms which the widening course of exploration and discovery was. continually disproving and pushing across the bounds (jff the known into the domain of the unknown, where the unbaffled romanticism of the age would reconstruct anew its cities of golden splendor. De \ aca and his companions to quote the narrative of Castaneda, historian of Coronado's expedition, gave the viceroy an extended account of some powerful villages, four or five stories high, of which they had heard a great deal in the countries they had cfossed, and other things very different from what turned out to be the truth. In this vague region imagination placed the Seven Cities of Cibola, whose luxuriance and wealth invited to spoliation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with History of New Mexico : its resources and people Volume 1 1907 [Hardcover]. To get started finding History of New Mexico : its resources and people Volume 1 1907 [Hardcover], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: History of New Mexico.EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERYIt was tlie "impious lust for gold" that brought the region that forms the territorial basis of this volume into the light of history. The succession of events preceding the discovery is interesting. In 1519 Alvarez de Pirieda, a Spanish explorer, having followed the gulf coast from Florida to Mexico and thence back to the mouth of the Mississippi, was, as it seems, the first European to sail upon that broad river, but more important than that to our present discussion is the fact that he was author of the report that the Indians dwelling on the banks of that river wore gold ornaments. No doubt this statement was a fiction, but, without regard to its truth or the subsequent career of its author, the report became an origin of a series of historical incidents.Panfilo de Narvaez, aroused by Pineda's mention of gold ornaments on the Alississippi Indians, and eager to outrival the conquest of the great Cortez, obtained permission to conquer and govern all the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. His expedition, which left Cuba in March, 1528, resulted in complete failure, the ships being wrecked and scattered and all but four men losing their lives. One of these four was Cabeza de Vaca, whose narrative of his wanderings has preserved his name and deeds to history. After many strange wanderings and terrible sufferings, he and his companions—namely, two other Spaniards, Dorantes and Castillo Mal-donado, and a negro, named Stephen or "Little Stephen," crossed Texas and Chihuahua and Sonora, finally reaching the Spanish settlement at Culiacan, in May, 1536.According to Donaldson, Cabeza de Vaca passed in his journey through Taos, Laguna, Acoma and Zuhi, and thence to the Gila, touching almost all the now known pueblos. However, Donaldson's authority for this line of march is quite vague, even if it be admitted that he has any authority whatever. De Vaca made no notes during his journey, and the stories told by him and his company did not agree in many essential particulars. The stories of the experiences of de Vaca and his companion are now regarded by the true student as grossly exaggerated, possibly for some personal reason. They had been made slaves by the Indian tribes among whom they sojourned, and for vears had suffered from all sorts of privations. That they were the first Europeans to cross the continent is unquestioned: but there is absolutely no evidence to show that they traveled further north in the Rio Grande Valley than the site of El Paso, and it is extremely improbable that they struck the Gila. Wliy, when they were in search of their own race, should they select a mountainous rather than a comparatively level country? The most natural course for them to havetaken in their search for the Pacific Coast was through the northern part of Sonora.De Vaca did not pass through New jNIexico, but his journey disclosed the existence of a vast unexplored territory north of the land of the jMonte-zumas. This territory at once became the land of mystery and the seat of all the fabled kingdoms which the widening course of exploration and discovery was. continually disproving and pushing across the bounds (jff the known into the domain of the unknown, where the unbaffled romanticism of the age would reconstruct anew its cities of golden splendor. De \ aca and his companions to quote the narrative of Castaneda, historian of Coronado's expedition, gave the viceroy an extended account of some powerful villages, four or five stories high, of which they had heard a great deal in the countries they had cfossed, and other things very different from what turned out to be the truth. In this vague region imagination placed the Seven Cities of Cibola, whose luxuriance and wealth invited to spoliation.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with History of New Mexico : its resources and people Volume 1 1907 [Hardcover]. To get started finding History of New Mexico : its resources and people Volume 1 1907 [Hardcover], you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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