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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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• Shelby, and
• Easton

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

• Born in Salamanca ,ca 1510
• Died in Mexico City in 1554
• First Spanish Explorer to explore the North
  Americas Southwest
• Met Southwest Indians on the way

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Coronado's Journey

• From Spain
• Mexico to Kansas

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Coronados Encounters

• Failed to find Seven Cities of Gold
• Found Seven villages of clay
• Met Pueblo, Hopi, and other Indians
• First to see Grand Canyon
• First to see Colorado River
• Claimed a lot of land for Spain

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Coronado's Discovery

• First to travel to part of North America
• He changed the Americas southwest

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Coronados Route
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Portraits of Francisco
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Artifacts
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Interesting Facts

• was governor of New Galicia, Mexico
• was the first Spaniard to go through the
  southwestern part of the U.S.
• traveled for two years over 4,000 miles and
  found nothing that he wanted

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References

• http//www.win.tue.nl/engels/discovery/coronado.h
  tml
• http//www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/places/
• http//www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/
  coronado.shtml
• http//www.pbs.org/opb/conquistadors/namerica/adve
  nture3/a1.htmtxt
• Bass, H.J. (1991) People in time and place our
  country. Morristown, NJ Silver Burdett Ginn