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The Encounter & Arrival of Coronado at
Cíbola, courtesy William Hartmann
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This 100th edition of The Lakeside Classics ventures into
a culture, place, and time never before covered in the series,
the Spanish exploration of northern Mexico and the southwest
portion of the United States during the mid sixteenth century.
Pedro de Castañeda's first-person narrative is the
most important surviving eyewitness document on the ill-fated
Francisco Vázquez de Coronado expedition. A powerful
Spanish force left from its New World outposts in Mexico in
1540, traveled some twenty-five hundred miles into California,
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and returned
two years later, without gold and glory but with a new understanding
of the geography of the continent.
With this Centennial Edition, we also present another first
for the Classics: a dual-language edition. Because the manuscript
was written in the author's native Spanish, we offer this
edition in the original Spanish, as well as in an English
translation.
Download "Narrative of the Coronado Expedition"
(English version)  (Microsoft Reader, 2.64 MB)
Download "Relación de la Jornada de Cíbola"
(Spanish version) (Microsoft Reader, 2.64 MB)
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