NARRATIVES OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITION 1540-1542 by Hammond, George P. and Rey, Agapito - 1940

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1940. First Edition. With frontispiece photograph. Larg, royal 8vo, publisher's original maroon cloth, the spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, and in the very scarce illustrated dustjacket xiii, 413 pp. A very well preserved copy, the book fine, strong, tight and clean, the rare dustjacket with some rubbing at the extremities and some overall age evidence.
FINE FIRST EDITION, IN THE CORONADO HISTORICAL SERIES. The history of New Mexico, rich in tradition, dates back not only to the great exploration of the Southwest by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado 400 years ago, but a thousand or more years to the civilization of the Pueblo Indians, who still inhabit a large portion of the beautiful valleys of this region. Coronado and his wealthy wife, Dońa Beatriz organized Coronado's great enterprise, incidents of the long march, camp life, the capture of Cíbola (now Zuńi), in Hopi Land, and at Tiguex on the Rio Grande where two fierce battles were fought.
Coronado then made a long trek eastward seeking a new Eldorado called Quivira. Misled by his Indian guide, Coronado and his enitiire colony marched from Pueblo Land into the buffalo-covered plains of western Texas before sending most of the colony back via the Salt Lakes. Coronado and his "Chosen Thirty' marched by way of the Arkansas River at Ford, Kansas and then downstream to the sites of Lyons and Lindsborg on Smoky Hill River, giving accounts of what he did and saw along the way.'
Included here in the new documents brought to light from the archives of Spain, are records of the trials, convictions and sentences of Coronado and López de Cardenas, the two men chiefly responsible for the entire exploration and its activities, on charges of mismanagement of the expedition, and additionally, the records of Coronado''s residencia as governor of New Galicia.