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0816530874 pdf This lively book recounts the explorations of the first generations of Spanish conquistadors and their Native allies. Author William K. Hartmann brings readers along as the explorers probe from Cuba to the Aztec capital of Mexico City, and then northward through the borderlands to New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, southern California, and as far as Kansas. Characters include Hernan Corts, the conqueror the Aztec ruler Motezuma Francisco Vzquez de Coronado, a famous expedition leader fray Marcos de Niza, an explorer-priest doomed to disgrace and Viceroy Antonio Mendoza, the kings representative who tried to keep the explorers under control. Recounting eyewitness experiences that the Spaniards recorded in letters and memoirs, Hartmann describes ancient lifeways from Mexico to the western United States Aztec accounts of the conquest discussions between Aztec priests and Spanish priests about the nature of the universe Cortss lifelong relationship with his famous Native mistress, Malinche (not to mention the mysterious fate of his wife) lost explorers who wandered from Florida to Arizona and Marcos de Nizas controversial reports of the Seven Cities of Cbola. Read more