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| | Handbook of Texas Online: VAZQUEZ DE CORONADO, FRANCISCO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, explorer and governor, son of Juan Vázquez de Coronado and Isabel de Luján, was born at Salamanca, Spain, in 1510. |
 | | Coronado was appointed in 1538 to the city council of Mexico City and to the governorship of Nueva Galicia, a province with four principal villages-Guadalajara, Compostela, Purificación, and Culiacán. |
 | | Dianna Everett, ed., Coronado and the Myth of Quivira (Canyon, Texas: Panhandle-Plains Historical Society, 1985). |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/print/VV/fvawt.html (422 words) |
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