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	Melchior Diaz and his destiny in northern Baja.
		He sent Melchior Diaz with the dual purpose of solidifying the Spanish grip on a new settlement (San Hieronimo de los Corazones) in the central Sonoran Desert, and to hurry westward to meet with Alarcon's ships along the coast of the gulf.
		Melchior Diaz decided to push on westward in an attempt to reach the Pacific Ocean.
		Melchior's men carried their captain, suffering terribly from his wound, for twenty days before Diaz finally died.
	www.blueroadrunner.com /melchiordiaz.htm (578 words)

	ITINERARY OF THE CORONADO EXPEDITIONS, 1527-1547 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melchior Diaz is sent to verify the reports of Friar Marcos.
		Diaz and Gallego reach Corazones about the middle of September, and the army starts for Cibola.
		OCTOBER Diaz starts from Corazones before the end of September, with twenty five men, and explores the country along the Gulf of California, going beyond Colorado river.
	southwest.library.arizona.edu /jour/front.1_div.4.html (1263 words)

	The Exploratory Expedition of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
		Melchior Diaz' expedition took him to what is now Sonora where he divided his expedition.
		Diaz himself took twenty five men to travel north leaving the rest of his expedition under the command of Diego de Alcaraz.
		Diaz took his men to the coast and along the coast up to where the Colorado River enters the Gulf of California.
	www.applet-magic.com /coronado.htm (7282 words)

	Coronado's Disappointment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Not far into their journey, they encountered Melchior Diaz, who had already been dispatched north to verify what De Niza had reported but winter snows stopped him before he got all the way through the mountains.
		Diaz marched across fearsome deserts to the Colorado River and found a message left by the naval commander.
		Diaz was gored in the groin by his own lance, which he had thrown at a dog chasing his sheep.
	www.magichelix.com /core/sequence/coronado.htm (3558 words)

	Coronado & Yuma
		(61) For Melchor Diaz and his career, see "The Journey of Coronado." He was entirely different from Alcaraz and Cebreros, and of uncommon ability and energy, while at the same time cautious and humane.
		About the middle of the month of October Captains Melchior Diaz and Juan Gallego came from Cibola, Juan Gallego on his way to New Spain and Melchior Diaz to stay in the new town of Hearts, in command of the men who remained there.
		AFTER Melchior Diaz and Juan Gallego had arrived in the town of Senora, it was announced that the
	www.angelfire.com /az2/yumaxing/coronado.html (3486 words)

	Desert Trails 3
		Unknown to Diaz, Alarcon had already sailed the length of the Gulf of California, anchoring his three ships at the mouth of the Colorado River in late August, and he had begun his exploration of the banks and Native American communities of the great stream.
		Diaz led his force back upstream and crossed the river to investigate the desert beyond, hoping to find the Pacific coast in spite of hostile Indians, the harsh landscape and an active lava field.
		Diaz saw that the greyhound dog, expected "to be useful in case of need," had given chase to several of the party’s sheep.
	www.desertusa.com /mag03/trails/trails03.html (3711 words)

	The Grand Canyon of Arizona: How to See It - Chapter XXIV
		These men and the care of the new settlement were left to Melchior Diaz, with orders to protect the road between Cibola and New Spain, and also to attempt to find some means of communicating with the vessels under Alarcon.
		Diaz, with twenty-five selected men, started for the seacoast, went to the Gulf, across to the coast, back again up the river, where he found Alarcon's cross, and eventually returned to San Hieronimo, there to meet with death by an accident.
		Melchior Diaz was dead, and the little settlement was in an excitement, because one of the soldiers had just been killed by a poisoned arrow, shot by one of the natives.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/geo/travel/TheGrandCanyonofArizonaHowtoSeeIt/chap25.html (3121 words)

	Chapter Excerpt: The Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melchior Diaz was trying to reach the Sea of Cortez, lying between the Mexican mainland and Baja California.
		Melchior Diaz kept his sheep in small brush corrals, attended by his Indian slaves.
		Melchior rode well, and he rode well armed.He certainly carried a sword and a fighting dagger.
	www.twbookmark.com /books/17/0316746711/chapter_excerpt18489.html (9625 words)

	Out There: Motor Cross (March 21 - March 27, 1996)
		The first European to use this route was the Spaniard Captain Melchior Diaz, writes William K. Hartmann in his definitive book on the region, Desert Heart.
		Diaz passed through here in 1540 during a futile attempt to contact ships sent to resupply Coronado's famed expedition.
		Diaz's ill-fated journey set the tone for many later travels through the region during the camino's two eras of heavy use: Spanish colonists and conquistadors routinely crossed it between 1770 and 1781, until the Yuma Indians took to killing the interlopers.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/03-21-96/outthere.htm (739 words)

	The Romance of the Colorado River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Melchior Diaz was an excellent officer, and already had an experience in this northern region extending over some four years.
		Diaz retained eighty men, part of whom were to defend the settlement of San Hieronimo, and twenty-five were to accompany him on his expedition in search of Alarcon.
		Diaz now proceeded up the river again, looking for a place where he could safely cross to explore the country on the opposite side.
	www.blackmask.com /books64c/romco.htm (20165 words)

	Sulphur history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Diaz traveled north with a party of 15 men and is believed to have gone as far as the Tizon (Colorado) River, although the exact location is not known.
		As was the fate of countless other adventurers who rushed north to claim their share of the wealth, the Diaz expedition was doomed to fade into obscurity in the wake of the greatest expedition of discovery the west has ever known.
		Diaz joined Coronado and together they made their way north into the Zuni pueblos that Marcos had described as being the Cities of Gold.
	www.sulphurs.com /history.htm (14325 words)

	Coronado's Journey Through Sonora and Arizona
		Diaz reported that winter snows had prevented him from traveling further north than the present-day southern Arizona.
		Because of the report of Diaz, and perhaps beginning to have doubts himself, Coronado decided to charge ahead with a modest band of about 75-80 horsemen, 25-30 footsoldiers, and some native allies, to find out what was really in Cibola.
		Diaz marched across fearsome deserts to the Colorado River and found a message left by Alarcón.
	www.psi.edu /coronado/coronadosjourney.html (1891 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		After the departure of Coronado's army from Corazones Captain Melchior Diaz, who had been left by Coronado in command of the town, took twenty- five of the most efficient men and went to find the coast and the ships of Alarcon.
		The distance traveled by Diaz to the Colorado is about one hundred and thirty-eight leagues.
		Diaz lived twenty days and after his death his men returned to Sonora.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/tbosf010.html (12260 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - The Journey of Coronado
		The general and his force crossed the country without trouble, as they found everything peaceful, because the Indians knew Friar Marcos and some of the others who had been with Melchior Diaz when he went with Juan de Saldivar to investigate.
		After the rains ceased the army went on to where the town of Senora was afterward located, because there were provisions in that region, so that they were able to wait there for orders from the general.
		When this had been announced, those who were to remain were selected and the rest loaded their provisions and set off in good order about the middle of September on the way to Cibola, following their general.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/resources/archives/one/corona3.htm (2927 words)

	Cast of Characters
		The organizers of the expedition mistakenly thought that they could supply the expedition by sea from a port that would be only a few days travel west of the route.
		Alarcón reached the Colorado River delta and sailed up the river in 1540, leaving a message which was later found by a branch of the expedition under Melchior Diaz.
		In a bizarre horseback accident near this place, Diaz was gored in the groin by his own lance, which he had thrown at a dog chasing his sheep.
	www.psi.edu /coronado/castofcharacters.html (2552 words)

	Imperial Valley People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In May 1540, Melchior Diaz became the first white man to set foot on what is now known as the Imperial Valley.
		Captain Juan Bautista De Anza, born and raised in Sonora's Mexican frontier, accompanied by Padre Francisco Garces, led an expedition to the Santa Barbara Mission and crossed the Valley in 1774.
		There is a necessity for the U.S. and Mexico to work closer together than ever before because today's global economy presents an opportunity for the Imperial Valley Hispanics who understand both cultures, to provide the human resources necessary to close any existing gaps.
	www.imperial.cc.ca.us /Pioneers/mexican.htm (663 words)

	San Felipe: Early Indians
		Early explorers of the northern gulf were the first to make hasty contact with the inhabitants of northern Lower California.
		In the year 1540 Melchior Diaz, a captain under Coronado, found his way overland to the mouth of the treacherous Colorado River and promptly christened it "Rio de Tison".
		They are naked...On account of the great cold, they carry a firebrand (Tison) in the hand when they go from one place to another, with which they warm the other hand and the body as well...On this account the larger river which is in that country was called the Firebrand River.
	www.mexfish.com /sflp/sflp/terich/terich05.htm (816 words)

	Narrative of the expedition of Coronado, by Pedro de Castañeda 16th century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		All the other gentlemen were placed under the flag of the general, as being distinguished persons, and some of them became captains later, and their appointments were confirmed by order of the viceroy and by the general, Francisco Vazquez.
		To name some of them whom I happen to remember, there were Francisco de Barrionuevo, a gentleman from Granada; Juan de Saldivar, Francisco de Ovando, Juan Gallego, and Melchior Diaz – a captain who had been mayor of Culiacan, who, although he was not a gentleman, merited the position he held.
		This was the Tison (Firebrand) River, much nearer its source than where Melchior Diaz and his company crossed it.
	www.mith2.umd.edu:8080 /eada/html/display.jsp?docs=castaneda_account.xml&action=show (8577 words)

	MSN Encarta - Arizona
		He then headed northeast toward Cíbola, which he found to be only villages of the Zuni Pueblo, containing no wealth.
		However, in the course of the explorations one of his lieutenants, García López de Cárdenas, saw the Grand Canyon; a second, Hernando de Alarcón, reached the lower Colorado River; and a third, Melchior Diaz, crossed what is now Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona on his way to the Gulf of California.
		In 1581 a party of soldiers and missionaries from Santa Barbara, on the northern frontier of what is now Mexico, traveled up the Río Grande seeking knowledge of the Pueblo peoples in what is now New Mexico.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761570033_10/Arizona.html (1223 words)

	Yuma Crossing
		He plays a sailor, a low-level warrant officer type, with the Alarconby-expedition that stopped in the area in an attempt to link up with Melchior Diaz's by-expedition.
		As you might expect, the AMS got Space #2, and we portray (what else) a group of Melchior Diaz's people.
		We had good variety this year: I did my usual arquebusier, dressed in plain shirt and slops, pacing about in front of the booth with my 14-lb artillery piece over my shoulder.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /calderon/yuma.htm (880 words)

	Conquistadors y Soldados at Yuma Crossing Day
		However, having visited the less-well known Yuma area, he has remained in relative obscurity.
		A long list of explorers of the Colorado River, including people like the Jesuit Eusebio Kino (1701), Juan de Onate (1605), and Melchior Diaz (1540) should also be accepted as figures of Alta California History.
		Melchior Diaz and Hernando de Alarcon - Excerpts from the Coronado narratives and related documents regarding these two Captains and their branch journeys of the Coronado expedition.
	www.angelfire.com /az2/yumaxing (508 words)

	Biography of San Xavier
		In 1540, the good friar, who was later accused of not allowing facts to interfere with a fine story, accompanied Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and a large expedition through eastern Arizona north into New Mexico to the Zuni Indian villages to pursue the Seven Cities mirage.
		In an attempt to supply Coronado and his men, the Spanish sea captain, Hernando de Alarcón, sailed up the lower Colorado River between Arizona and California, and Melchior Díaz, soldier and mayor of Culiacán, touched Arizona looking for Alarcón.
		In 1604-05 Don Juan de Oñate crossed Arizona in the north from New Mexico to within sight of the mouth of the Colorado River and back again.
	www.kuat.org /sx/sxbio.html (611 words)

	Chapter 1--Bancroft's History of Utah 1540-1886
		On arriva beaucoup plus près de sa source que de l'endroit oú Melchior Diaz et ses gens l'avaient traversée, et l'on sut plus tard que les Indiens dont on avant parlé taitent de la même nation que ceux que Diaz avait vus.
		In vain for several days, with their faces toward the south and west, they sought to escape from the mountains that environed them, and descend to the river, for they were suffering from thirst.
		They arrived much nearer to its source than the place Where Melchor Diaz anti his people had crossed, and it was known later that the Indians spoken of belonged to the same nation as those seen by Diaz.
	www.utlm.org /onlinebooks/bancroftshistoryofutah_chapter1.htm?FACTNet (5325 words)

	Phil Austin's Blog of the Unknown
		Melchior sets off west across the evil desert of death with twenty-five rejects from the army of Coronado (retreating south after the Death of the Moor) to meet up with Alarcon at the gulf of the Colorado.
		A greyhound owned by one of the soldiers chases the herd of sheep that's with them and Melchior, on horseback, at full speed, hurls a lance at the greyhound.
		It sticks in the desert and Melchior goes right into it, the horse being unable to stop in time.
	austin.weblogger.com (11423 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of how they besieged Tiguex and took it and of what happened during the siege, -- 52 Chapter XVII.
		Of how messengers reached the army from the valley of Senra and how Captain Melchior Diaz died on the expedition to the Firebrand river, -- 58 Chapter XVlII.
		Of how the general managed to leave the country in peace so as to go in search of Quivira, where the Turk said there was the most wealth, -- 61 Chapter XIX.
	www.webroots.org /library/usatrav/tjoc0000.html (3122 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : Esteban of Azemmour and His New World Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Years later, as governor and captain-general of the South American province of Rio de la Plata, de Vaca would initiate a number of progressive reforms in Indian affairs.
		Under Spanish escort, the four reached San Miguel de Culiacan, 150 kilometers (90 mi) away, where they met with the mayor, Captain Melchior Diaz.
		Diaz instructed the Indians that if they professed a belief in God, they would be left in peace.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/200202/esteban.of.azemmour.and.his.new.world.adventures.htm (3638 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Now, in the time that these great men of the Pagans sailed (against Constantinople) with those great fleets of which I have told you, there reigned in this land of California a Queen, large of body, very beautiful, in the prime of her years....
		Forbes, Jack D., "Melchior Diaz and the Discovery of Alta California." Pacific Historical Review, Vol.
		The volume by General Holmes is a masterpiece in research and writing and should be read by anyone interested in the Spanish period.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/65january/discovery.htm (7842 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (Historical Background)
		Coronado ensconced himself in the pueblo and sent back one of his lieutenants, Melchior Diaz, to order the main army forward.
		Not only had their high hopes of riches been dashed, but the inhospitable lands they had traversed were unsuitable for colonization.
		The discovery by Diaz and Alarcón that Baja (Lower) California was a peninsula and not an island was the only concrete result of the expedition.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/intro4.htm (3097 words)

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