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	Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
		Pedro de Tovar[?] was sent northwest, and heared of a great river further west (the Colorado).
		Garcia Lopez de Cardenas[?] was sent out to find this river, and found himself being the first European to see the magnificent Grand Canyon.
		Hernando de Alvarado[?] was sent east, and found villages around the Rio Grande.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/co/Coronado.html (451 words)

	CHAPTER III. EARLY SPANISH EXPLORATIONS (Continued).
		Before the army left Culiacan, Hernando de Alarcon was sent in command of a naval expedition to explore the coast and to co-operate with the land expedition.
		Don Pedro de Tovar, with seventeen horsemen and three or four foot soldiers, was sent out by Coronado to explore these villages, and entered the country quietly, arriving after nightfall and concealing themselves on the edge of the village.
		On their return Cardenas and his companions saw some water falling over a rock, and learned from the guides that some bunches of crystals which were hanging there were salt, of which they gathered a quantity and brought it back to Cibola, dividing it among those who were there.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /hav1/body.1_div.3.html (2435 words)

	AllRefer.com - GarcIa LOpez de CArdenas (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		GarcIa LOpez de CArdenas[gArthE´A lO´peth dA kAr´dAnAs] Pronunciation Key, fl.
		A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco VAsquez de Coronado, he was selected to lead a party from Cibola (the Zuni country of New Mexico) to find a river of which the Hopi had spoken.
		He was not, however, the discoverer of the Colorado itself, for Hernando de AlarcOn had explored its lower waters a month earlier.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CardenasGL.html (205 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - The Journey of Coronado Part Three
		Among these was one from Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, which informed him of the death of his brother, the heir, and summoned him to Spain to receive the inheritance.
		Diego de Alcaraz, who had remained at Suya with a small force, sick, was not able to hold his position, although he would have liked to, on account of the poisonous herb which the natives use.
		These deeds of theirs were such that I know those people will remember them as long as they live, and especially four or five friendly Indians who went with them from Corazones, who thought that they were so wonderful that they held them to be something divine rather than human.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/corona7.htm (4900 words)

	Grand Canyon - Crystalinks
		Under direction by conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado to find the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas led a party of Spanish soldiers with Hopi guides to the Grand Canyon in September of 1540.
		Pablo de Melgrossa, Juan Galeras and a third soldier descended one third of the way into the Canyon until they were forced to return because of lack of water.
		Cardenas greatly underestimated the width of the river below to be 10 feet (3 m).
	www.crystalinks.com /grandcanyon.html (4113 words)

	Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer
		In 1539, Marcos de Niza, a Spanish missionary priest, returned to New Spain from a journey to the north.
		One of his men, Pedro de Tovar, led a force to the Colorado Plateau and the Painted Desert to the northwest.
		Garcia Lopez de Cardenas and his party became the first Europeans to see the Grand Canyon.
	franklaughter.tripod.com /cgi-bin/histprof/misc/coronado.html (525 words)

	Spanish Exploration on the Colorado Plateau
		Coronado sent Captain Pedro de Tovar and a small force west where they fought a pitched battle with the Hopi.
		In 1583 Antonio de Espejo led nine soldiers and more than 100 Zunis on a search for precious metals to the north central part of Arizona.
		A group of colonists under Juan de Oñate were the first white people to see the San Francisco Peaks, which they named the Sierra Sin Agua (Mountains without water).
	www.cpluhna.nau.edu /People/spanish_exploration.htm (895 words)

	Trail Description : Tanner Trail
		The first European to visit the Canyon was a Spaniard by the name of Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, who encountered it in 1535, while in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.
		Cardenas Butte, which is accessible via the Tanner Trail, is named in his honor.
		After you finally come around the base of Cardenas Butte the trail levels off for a while as it leads you across the rocks of the Supai Group, to the break in the Redwall Limestone that leads into the lower part of the canyon.
	www.kaibab.org /bc/gc_tr_ta.htm (1295 words)

	PH@school: Literature: Author Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was the first European to view the Grand Canyon.
		After a member of the expedition heard about the Colorado River, Cardenas and about 12 companions were dispatched from Cibola to find the river.
		Since a chronicler had accompanied Cardenas and the expedition, they were able to give the general a written account of what they had seen.
	www.phschool.com /atschool/literature/author_biographies/cardenas_gl.html (184 words)

	Chapter 1--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
		As Francisco Vazquez de Coronado was journeying from Culiacan to the north and east in 1540, he rested at Cíbola, that is to say Zuñi, and while waiting for the main army to come forward, expeditions were sent out in various directions.
		Après ces vingt journées de marche ils arrivérent en effet á cette rivière, dent les bords sont tellement élevés qu'ils croyaient être á trois ou quatre lieues en l'air.
		Don Pedro de Tobar having returned, and having made a report concerning those towns, D. García Lopez de Cárdenas, maestre de campo, was ordered to take the same route by which Don Pedro had come, and to go on from the province of Tuzan to the westward.
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter1.htm?FACTNet (5325 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - The Journey of Coronado
		As Don Pedro de Tovar was not commissioned to go farther, he returned from there and gave this information to the general, who dispatched Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas with about twelve companions to go to see this river.
		They described cows which, from the picture that one of them had painted on his skin, seemed to be cows, although from the hides this did not seem possible, because the hair was woolly and snarled so that we could not tell what sort of skins they had.
		The villagers prepared to fight, and let fly their arrows, denouncing Hernando de Alvarado, and saying that he was a man who had no respect for peace and friendship.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/corona4.htm (2335 words)

	Grand Canyon - Free net encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In September 1540, under orders from the conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado to search for the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola, Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, along with Hopi guides and a small group of Spanish soldiers, traveled to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon between Desert View and Moran Point.
		Pablo de Melgrossa, Juan Galeras and a third soldier descended some one third of the way into the Canyon until they were forced to return because of lack of water.
		Fathers Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestre Velez de Escalante were two Spanish Priests who, with a group of Spanish soldiers, explored southern Utah and traveled along the North Rim of the Canyon in Glen and Marble Canyons in search of a route from Santa Fe to California in 1776.
	www.netipedia.com /index.php/Grand_Canyon (1870 words)

	Garcia Lopez - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Garcia Lopez could refer to any of the following persons:
		Antonio Garcia Lopez (criminal), also known as Toño Bicicleta, notorious Puerto Rican criminal.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Garcia_Lopez (92 words)

	Wikinfo \| Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Melchior Diaz was sent out to the mouth of the Colorado(?), to meet Hernando de Alarcón who would be shipping supplies for Coronado.
		Pedro de Tovar was sent northwest, and heard of a great river further west (the Colorado).
		Although the expedition was a complete failure, he remained governor of New Galicia until 1544, then retired to Mexico City, where he died in 1554.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Coronado (557 words)

	Desert Trails 4
		He had sent Pedro de Tovar to investigate another province of seven cities, which also turned out to be, not kingdoms of gold and silver, but rather Puebloan – in this case, Hopi – villages of earth and stone.
		He had sent Garcia Lopez de Cardenas to investigate stories of a large people and a great river—a march which would lead to the discovery of the Grand Canyon.
		Cardenas soon received Alvarado’s party, which arrived at Alcanfor with the four "guests" in shackles and new stories of kingdoms and treasures.
	www.desertusa.com /mag03/trails/trails04.html (4848 words)

	AllRefer.com - Hernando de AlarcOn (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hernando de AlarcOn[ArnAn´dO dA AlArkOn´] Pronunciation Key, fl.
		He was given command of a fleet that was supposed to support the land expedition of Francisco VAsquez de Coronado.
		He explored the river a few months before GarcIa LOpez de CArdenas discovered the Grand Canyon.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AlarconH.html (196 words)

	THIRD PART.
		I sent the army-master, Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, with 15 horsemen, a day's march ahead of me, in order to explore the country and prepare the way, which he accomplished like the man that he is, and agreeably to the confidence which Your Lordship has had in him.
		The army-master and Don Pedro de Tovar and Ferrando de Alvarado and Paulo de Melgosa, the infantry captain, sustained some bruises, although none of them were wounded.
		The captain, Francisco Vazquez, went farther across the plains, with 30 horsemen, and Friar Juan de Padilla with him; all the rest of the force returned to the settlement at the river to wait for Francisco Vazquez, because this was his command.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /jour/body.1_div.3.html (14459 words)

	Parallel Histories: The Southwest / Historias Paralelas: El Suroeste
		In 1604 Juan de Oñate ventured west from his base in present-day New Mexico and sent word of “a great harbor on the South sea,” actually the mouth of the Colorado River.
		Pasaron más de cuarenta años antes de que los españoles trataran de fundar asentamientos permanentes en los vastos territorios que Coronado había explorado.
		Esta norma estipulaba la manera en que se debían de llevar a cabo las relaciones con los indios, las responsabilidades del inspector-comandante y otras autoridades militares, y también por un cordón de seguridad compuesto por 15 presidios ubicados a intervalos de 40 ligas, desde Sonora hasta Texas.
	memory.loc.gov /intldl/eshtml/es-1/es-1-3.html (1782 words)

	The Spanish Entrada and the Pueblo Revolt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Led by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the survivors built rafts and worked their way around the Gulf Coast until their rafts were destroyed in a storm off the coast of Texas.
		De Vaca and his companions were told the stories by various peoples they encountered on their desperate return journey.
		De Niza's party returned with equally fabulous and untrue information, which only added to the myth.
	www.coco.cc.az.us /apetersen/art103/entrada.htm (1063 words)

	General Information
		The first European to view the Grand Canyon was Captain Garcia Lopez de Cardenas in 1540.
		Cardenas was sent north from Mexico by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in search of the fabled Seven Cities of Cibola (Gold).
		Cardenas and his party spent three days at the Canyon, trying to get down to the river, until depleted supplies forced them to give up.
	www.kaibab.org /misc/gc_gen.htm (2156 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. Journeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the heading to the document in the Pacheco y Cardenas Coleccion, the date is given as 1531, and it is placed under that year in the chronologic index of the Coleccion.) Page 198 Cibola, and had seen what was there; and this was done.
		When Hernando de Alvarado returned from these plains to the river which was called Tiguex, he found the army-master Don Garcia Lopez de Cardenas getting ready for the whole army, which was coming there.
		Antonio Serrano de Cardona, one of the Page 248 magistrates of Mexico, who was present from beginning to end of the review of the preceding Sunday, testified in similar form.
	www.webroots.org /library/usatrav/tjoc0004.html (7485 words)

	Parallel Histories: Coronado / Historias Paralelas: Coronado
		Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510- September 22, 1554) was born in Salamanca, Spain.
		Francisco Vásquez de Coronado (1510-22 de septiembre de 1554) nació en Salamanca, España.
		En febrero de 1540 partió de Compostela, la capital de Nueva Galicia, comandando una gran fuerza expedicionaria que incluía 336 soldados españoles, cientos de indios voluntarios, y un gran número de caballos, mulas, ovejas y ganado.
	memory.loc.gov /intldl/eshtml/es-1/es-1-3-1.html (624 words)

	History Channel Search Results
		There he learned of the tales of the Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca about the Seven Cities of Cíbola, believed to be fabulously rich Indian settlements that were to be found northeast of the province.
		Coronado was chosen to head an overland expedition to explore and conquer the region for Spain.
		A fleet commanded by Hernando de Alarcón, in search of an inland waterway to Cíbola, maintained a parallel course along the coast.
	www.historychannel.com /thcsearch/thc_resourcedetail.do?encyc_id=206545 (409 words)

	Explorers Before Lewis & Clark
		Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored the Gulf Coast of Mexico and encountered the mouth of the Mississippi River.
		Lavar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and a fl slave named Esteban were two of the three survivors, who described cultures and the geography of the regions they traversed.
		As a direct result of de Niza's stories, the attention of Spain was focused on the northern part of the empire.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/WestwardExpansion/EarlyExplorers/EarlyExplorers.htm (2094 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Cárdenas, García López de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		CÁRDENAS, GARCÍA LÓPEZ DE [Cárdenas, García López de], fl.
		A member of the 1540 expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, he was selected to lead a party from Cibola (the Zuñi country of New Mexico) to find a river of which the Hopi had spoken.
		He was not, however, the discoverer of the Colorado itself, for Hernando de Alarcón had explored its lower waters a month earlier.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/CardenasG1L1.asp (95 words)

	History Culture
		Many expeditions ended in failure, but there were enough successes to keep alive the dream that great wealth lay within the grasp of anyone with the opportunity to seize it.
		Such was the situation in 1536 when Cabeza de Vaca and three tattered companions, sole survivors of the shipwrecked Narvaez Expedition, arrived in Mexico City after eight years of wandering through what is now the American Southwest.
		A third captain, Hernando de Alvarado marched eastward past Acoma and Tiguex pueblos to Cicuye (Pecos) pueblo, near modern-day Santa Fe.
	www.nps.gov /coro/history.htm (984 words)

	AmericanFrontiers.net: Exhibits: History: Spanish Explorers
		Alvar Cabeza de Vaca thought he was going to settle near the coast when his party approached Florida in 1528.
		One member of his expedition, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, was the first European to see the Grand Canyon.
		Fifty years later, Juan de Fuca (a Greek sailing under the Spanish flag), claimed the rest of the Pacific Coast, as far north as Vancouver Island.
	americanfrontiers.net /explorers (674 words)

	Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He accompanied Antonio de Mendoza to New Spain in 1535; by a brilliant marriage, became a leading grandee, and in 1539 was appointed governor of the province of New Galicia.
		Meanwhile exploring parties were sent out: Tusayan, the Hopi or Moki (Moqui) country of northeastern Arizona, was visited; Garcia Lopez de Cardenas discovered and described the Grand Canyon of the Colorado; and expeditions were sent along the Rio Grande, where the army wintered.
		In connection with it, in 1540, Hernando de Alarcon ascended the Gulf of California to its head and the Colorado river for a long distance above its mouth.
	www.nndb.com /people/532/000109205 (253 words)

	Wikinfo \| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Melchior Diaz was sent out to the mouth of the Colorado, to meet Hernándo de Alarcón who
		Garcia Lopez de Cardenas was sent out to find this river, and found himself
		Pedro de Castañeda, translated with an extensive introduction by George Parker Winship, modern introduction, Donald C. Cutter, The Journey of Coronado, Fulcrum Publishing, 1990, hardcover, 233 pages, ISBN 1-55591-066-1
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Francisco_Vasquez_de_Coronado (527 words)

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