Fray eusebio kino biography of christopher columbus
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Eusebio Francisco Kino was the most picturesque missionary pioneer of all North America - explorer, astronomer, cartographer, mission builder, ranchman, boskap king, and defender of the frontier.
His biography is a not merely the life story of a remarkable individual, it illuminates the culture of a large part of the Western Hemisphere in its pioneer stages.
Dr, Herbert E. Bolton
Founding Historian of the Study Colonial Spain in the United States
"Rim of Christendom - A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino: Pacific Coast Pioneer" 1935
The noblest Southwesterner of all.
Dr. Lawrence Clark Powell
Eminent Southwest Historian
"Southwest Classics" 1965
Kino was a protoliberation theologist, as concerned with improving earthly status as with securing a heavenly reward for obedient subjects of God and crown. …. The Indians recognized that he was a highly evolved soul, an inside chief …
Alex Shoumatoff
"Legends of the American Desert:
Soujourns in the Greater So
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Explorers: First Expeditions in the Gulf of California and the Sonoran Desert—The Pimería Alta
The main impulse of the first Spanish explorers in what is currently Northwestern Mexico and Southwestern United States was the possibility of discovering such riches as those that had been found in the great civilizations including the Aztec, the Maya, and other cultures settled in Mesoamerica. This fryst vatten why, soon after the fall of Tenochtitlán on August 13, 1521, expeditions were organized bygd the Spaniards to enter these new territories.
The first voyage through these regions came as a result of the wreckage of Pánfilo de Narváez’s fleet off the coast of Florida in 1528. There were four survivors, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and a Berber slave named Esteban (Estebanico), who was probably the first person born in Africa to arrive in what is now the United States. For eight years they crossed the southwestern United States and nor
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Almost a hundred years ago, the eminent historian Herbert Bolton complained that standard narratives of U.S. history left out the Spanish story almost entirely. Every schoolchild knew about Lewis and Clark; few if any, even in the schoolhouses of the West, knew of the equally, if not more, impressive expeditions and explorations of Junípero Serra, Juan Bautista de Anza, or Francisco Garcés. Furthermore, what little was taught about the entradas of the Spanish pioneers was inevitably colored by the Black Legend of their depredations and iniquity—a legend popular in the Protestant English-speaking world for centuries.
Bolton’s response to this state of affairs was to undertake one of the most impressive scholarly projects in American intellectual history. In dusty, often disorganized archives scattered throughout Spain, Mexico, and elsewhere, he uncovered long-forgotten, never-translated manuscripts. Among them were documents related to Coronado’s conquest of New Mexico;