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Cities of Gold. Written by William K. Hartmann. Review by Rosemary Edghill. Set both in 1989 and 1549, but almost entirely in the American Southwest, this tells the story, supported by extracts of actual primary-source documents, of the real-life Fra Marcos de Niza, who journeyed north from Mexico into what is now Arizona in search of the ...
1 lis 1992 · CITIES OF GOLD. A JOURNEY ACROSS THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST IN CORONADO'S FOOTSTEPS. by Douglas Preston ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992. bookshelf. shop now. A torturous and sometimes comical attempt to trace Coronado's 450-year-old footsteps through the deserts and mountains of the American Southwest.
16 lis 2002 · Fray Marcos de Niza of Spain journeys into the unknown and reports the fabled seven cities of gold, launching Coronado’s huge army of conquistadors to conquer the American southwest. Coronado’s soldiers and later scholars eventually called Marcos a fraud and liar, his report a mere fiction.
1 sty 1992 · In 1989, Douglas Preston decided to take a trip on horseback retracing the route of Spanish conquistador Coronado's journey in 1540 through the southwest in search of the mythic seven cities of gold. Walter Nelson, a friend of Preston's and a photographer, decided to go with him on a journey that they originally thought might take a month but ...
This book singlehandedly drove me to New Mexico to get a firsthand look at the history and culture and landscape. When I got to the place where the city gate of Santa Fe once stood, I time-travelled a little bit, for a moment, in celebration of moxie.
Fray Marcos de Niza of Spain journeys into the unknown and reports the fabled seven cities of gold, launching Coronado’s huge army of conquistadors to conquer the American southwest. Coronado’s soldiers and later scholars eventually called Marcos a fraud and liar, his report a mere fiction.
1 gru 2002 · Kevin Scott is an idealistic city planner in Albuquerque in the late 1980s, on the rebound from a failed marriage and an unfulfilling job. Mr. Rooney, a real-estate developer, hires him to work on a project near Tucson: Coronado Estates.
