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A beginner's history

Chapter 9: CORONADO, WHO PENETRATED SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES BUT FOUND NOTHING BUT BEAUTIFUL SCENERY
By William H. Mace
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Aimed at young readers, this illustrated school history surveys early exploration, colonization, colonial life, and the nation’s political development through concise biographical sketches and episode-based narratives. Chapters recount voyages, settlement patterns, and the foundations of several colonies, then address leaders and events that shaped independence and national institutions. Pedagogical features include study questions, leading facts, and suggested readings to support classroom use, while the preface and concluding material stress moral lessons of perseverance, civic responsibility, and the nation’s mobilization and role in the recent world war.

CORONADO, WHO PENETRATED SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES BUT FOUND NOTHING BUT BEAUTIFUL SCENERY

17. Coronado's Search for Rich Cities. Stories of rich cities to the north of Mexico led Francisco Coronado with a thousand men into the rocky regions now known as New Mexico and Arizona. They looked with wonder at the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, but they found no wealthy cities or temples ornamented with gold and silver.

They pushed farther north into what is now Kansas and Nebraska, into the great western prairies with their vast seas of waving grass and herds of countless buffalo. "Crooked-back oxen" the Spaniards named the buffalo.

Coronado finds no gold or silver

But Coronado was after gold and silver, and cared nothing for beautiful and interesting scenes. Disappointed, he turned southward and in 1542, after three years of wandering, reached home in Mexico. He reported to the King of Spain that the region he had explored was too poor a place for him to plant colonies.