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The Gold of Quivira

Author : Anthony J. Barak
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595006205
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Gold of Quivira written by Anthony J. Barak and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after the sacking of Mexico by the Spaniards, the leaders of New Spain heard many rumors of the riches existing in the vast area north of Mexico. In both 1540 and 1599, the viceroy of Mexico formed very large armies to march to the north and find and loot the wealth from areas reputed to being very rich. Francisco Coronado headed the first expedition, but in Cibola and Quivira found the Indians to be very poor and living in skin lodges. Coronado returned to Mexico in great disgrace. Despite the Coronado failures, the Spanish leaders still believed that Quivira possessed rich gold mines. They commissioned Juan de Onaté to lead another expensive expedition to investigate the area. Upon reaching Quivira, Onaté met the same fate as Coronado. He found no gold and had to retreat in ignominious defeat. In spite of the failings of Onaté, the men of his expedition had a great interplay with the Indians of Quivira. On one occasion, they helped defend the Pawnee Indians from the Comanche tribe. So great was the Spaniard quest for gold, that 180 years after Coronado, the Spaniards under Don Pedro de Villasur again invaded Quivira. At this late date under the influence of the French, the Oto and Pawnee attacked the Spaniards along the Platte River and decimated their army. This defeat then spelled the end of the Spanish power on the Great Plains.

Came Men on Horses

Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1607322064
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Came Men on Horses written by Stan Hoig and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guided by myths of golden cities and worldly rewards, policy makers, conquistador leaders, and expeditionary aspirants alike came to the new world in the sixteenth century and left it a changed land. Came Men on Horses follows two conquistadors—Francisco Vázquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate—on their journey across the southwest. Driven by their search for gold and silver, both Coronado and Oñate committed atrocious acts of violence against the Native Americans, and fell out of favor with the Spanish monarchy. Examining the legacy of these two conquistadors Hoig attempts to balance their brutal acts and selfish motivations with the historical significance and personal sacrifice of their expeditions. Rich human details and superb story-telling make Came Men on Horses a captivating narrative scholars and general readers alike will appreciate.

Thunderhead

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759525293
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Thunderhead written by Douglas Preston and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nora Kelly, a young archaeologist in Santa Fe, receives a letter written sixteen years ago, yet mysteriously mailed only recently. In it her father, long believed dead, hints at a fantastic discovery that will make him famous and rich---the lost city of an ancient civilization that suddenly vanished a thousand years ago. Now Nora is leading an expedition into a harsh, remote corner of Utah's canyon country. Searching for her father and his glory, Nora begins t unravel the greatest riddle of American archeology. but what she unearths will be the newest of horrors...

Quivira

Author : Paul A. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Quivira written by Paul A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quivira is a place named by explorer Francisco V̀squez de Coronado in 1541, for the mythical "Seven Cities of Gold" which he never found. The location of Quivira is believed by most authorities to be in central Kansas near present-day Lyons extending northeastern to Salina. The Quivirans were the forebears of the modern day Wichita Indians and Caddoan tribes, such as the Pawnee or Arikara"--Wikipedia.

The Real Quivira (Classic Reprint)

Author : William E. Richey
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333328825
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book The Real Quivira (Classic Reprint) written by William E. Richey and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Real Quivira I shall refer mainly to the Spanish accounts of the explorers themselves, as they appear in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology. Tales of gold, silver and great cities north of Mexico had reached that country at various times since its conquest by the Spaniards. Mexican Indians who had gone northward with feathers to trade had brought back gold and silver. These reports were confirmed by Cabeca de Vaca and his two companions, the remnant of the {ill-fated expedition which Narvaez led into Florida. These unfortunate adventurers, suffering incredible hardships, had made their way from Florida to Mexico, arriving there in 1536, and giving to the viceroy an account of some large and powerful villages in the mysterious country north of Mexico. Peru and Mexico had yielded immense quantities of the precious metals to their ruthless Spanish conquerors. Consequently the imagination and avarice of the Spaniards in Mexico were greatly excited, and Mendoca, the Viceroy of Mexico, raised an army for the exploration and conquest of the seven cities of Cibola, and the unknown regions to the north. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado was appointed commander of this army. It consisted of about 300 Spaniards, well armed and mounted, and nearly a thousand friendly Indians and servants. Artillery, ammunition, and subsistence, consisting in part of droves of cattle and sheep, were supplied in abundance and taken along with the army for its use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.

Quivira Lakes Collection

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Quivira Lakes Collection written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quivira Lakes community was developed near Kansas City, Missouri and derived their name from a Spanish term for a Native American settlement west of the Missouri River. Folklore behind the settlement described Quivira as a large settlement filled with gold and treasure. This collection includes a residential history pamphlet and a history of Quivira Lakes titled, “The Quest for Quivira,” and compiled by John E. Olson.

Quivira

Author : Karen Kevorkian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999484852
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Quivira written by Karen Kevorkian and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: poetry book

The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542

Author : George Parker Winship
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542 written by George Parker Winship and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Old Quivira

Author : Margaret Hill McCarter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Old Quivira written by Margaret Hill McCarter and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Imaginary Cities of Gold

Author : Peter O. Koch
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786453109
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Imaginary Cities of Gold written by Peter O. Koch and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-04-22 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanish conquistadors attempted to conquer the New World nearly a century before the English colonists established a permanent settlement at Jamestown. This book examines the unsuccessful elements of Spain's attempt at expanding its empire in the Americas, focusing particularly on the misadventures of three conquistadors. Part One tells the story of Cabeza de Vaca who, along with three other survivors of the ill-fated Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to Florida, spent nearly eight years among the various tribes that wandered across Texas, New Mexico, and northern Mexico before finding his way back to civilization. Their tales of lands rich with earthly delights served as inspiration for two epic but failed expeditions that make up the second and third parts of the book: Francisco de Coronado's quest to find the golden cities of Cibola and Hernando de Soto's efforts to find the rich kingdoms of Florida.

Blood and Salt

Author : Kim Liggett
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 069817383X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Blood and Salt written by Kim Liggett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last words Ash hears her mother say are, “When you fall in love, you will carve out your heart and throw it into the deepest ocean. You will be all in—blood and salt.” Determined to find her mother when she disappears, Ash follows her to Quivara, Kansas, the spiritual commune she escaped long ago. But something sinister and ancient waits among the rustling cornstalks of this village lost to time. Her mother is nowhere to be found, but Ash is plagued by memories of her ancestor, Katia, which harken back to the town’s history of unrequited love, murder, alchemy, and immortality. Charming traditions give way to a string of deaths. And Ash feels herself drawn to Dane, a mysterious, forbidden boy with secrets of his own. As the community prepares for a ceremony five hundred years in the making, Ash fights to save her mother, her lover, and herself. She must discover the truth about Quivara before it’s too late. Before she’s all in—blood and salt.

The King's Fifth

Author : Scott O'Dell
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547349688
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The King's Fifth written by Scott O'Dell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2006-09-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newbery Honor Book: A “stunning” historical novel of a teenager’s journey from Spain to the New World in search of gold (Kirkus Reviews). Mapmaker Esteban de Sandoval is only seventeen years old, but he has experienced much adventure, traveling to the New World to hunt for gold with the Conquistadors. Whatever treasure they find, they were expected to give one-fifth of it to the king. But Esteban is accused of withholding the king’s fifth—and of murder. As he waits for his trial to begin, he recalls the experience of his journey: the men he sailed with, the young Native American girl who guided him—and the ways that it changed him—in this remarkable novel about Spanish colonialism by the author of such classics as Island of the Blue Dolphins.

Becoming Native to This Place

Author : Wes Jackson
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619026880
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Native to This Place written by Wes Jackson and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In six compelling essays, Wes Jackson lays the foundation for a new farming economy grounded in nature's principles and located in dying small towns and rural communities. Exploding the tenets of industrial agriculture, Jackson seeks to integrate food production with nature in a way that sustains both. His writing is anchored in his work with The Land Institute, lending authenticity to topics that—in the hands of other writers—too often fail to escape the realm of the conceptual.

Coronado

Author : Herbert E. Bolton
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826337236
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Coronado written by Herbert E. Bolton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Eugene Bolton’s classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies, Coronado and his men—the first Europeans to explore what are now Arizona and New Mexico—continued on to the buffalo-covered plains of Texas and into Oklahoma and Kansas. With documents in hand, Bolton personally followed the path of the Coronado expedition, providing readers with unsurpassed storytelling and meticulous research.

Coronado and Quivira

Author : Paul A. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coronado and Quivira written by Paul A. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Quest for Quivira

Author : Buford Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780899921259
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Quest for Quivira written by Buford Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating story of the Aztec guide who accompanied the Coronado expedition through what is now Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas in search of the legendary city of gold.

The Dig

Author : Sheldon Russell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780806143606
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (436 download)

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Download or read book The Dig written by Sheldon Russell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paired stories bring together the longing and frustration of two men as they try to find the next important thing in their lives in a tiny town in Kansas: modern archaeology grad student Jim Hunt needs to restart his career after losing both his research funding and his partner, and Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado searches for the fabled golden city of Quivera in the early days of the exploration of the New World.