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Reading Guide for New Mexico History in 10 Minutes: Explorers and First Encounters

Episodes 11, 13 & 14

Episode 11 - Spanish Church and State in New Spain, and the Fray Marcos de Niza Expedition to New Mexico in 1539

Episode 13 - Spanish Names and Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Episode 14 - Coronado, Bigotes, and the Grand Canyon

Reading List

Esteban: The African Slave Who Explored America by Dennis Herrick
Call Number: SW 910.92 H566 2018
ISBN: 9780826359810
Publication Date: 2018-10-15
The Journey of Fray Marcos de Niza by Cleve Hallenbeck; Jose Cisneros (Illustrator); David J. Weber (Introduction by)
Call Number: SW 973.16 M321JO 1987 C. 1
ISBN: 9780870742156
Publication Date: 1987-12-01
Narratives of the Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 by George P. Hammond
Call Number: In-library-use-only LCSW 978.9 H226N V. 2
Publication Date: 1940
Volume 2 of the Coronado Cuarto Centennial Publications, 1540-1940.
A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective by Richard Flint; Shirley Cushing Flint
Call Number: SW 979.01092 F624 2019 C. 1
ISBN: 9780826360229
Publication Date: 2019-04-15
Coronado Expedition to Tierr: The 1540-1542 Route Across the Southwest by R. Flint
Call Number: SW 979.01092 C822 C. 1
ISBN: 9780870814563
Publication Date: 1997-09-15
The Latest Word From 1540: People, Places, and Portrayals of the Coronado Expedition by Richard Flint (Editor); Shirley Cushing Flint (Editor)
Call Number: SW 979.01 L3519F 2011 C. 2
ISBN: 9780826350602
Publication Date: 2011-10-16
Great Cruelties Have Been Reported: The 1544 Investigation of the Coronado Expedition by Richard Flint
Call Number: SW 979.01 F624 2002 C. 2
ISBN: 9780870744600
Publication Date: 2002-03-19
Reshaping New Spain: Government and Private Interests in the Colonial Bureaucracy, 1531-1550 by Ethelia Ruiz Medrano
Call Number: SW 972.02 R9346 2012
ISBN: 9781607321866
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
Call Number: SW 980.013072 R4361
ISBN: 9780197537299
Publication Date: 2021-04-27