Francisco Vázquez de Coronado y Luján
The party also
included Fray Onorato and a number of Piman Indians who had come to Mexico with Cabeza de Vaca.
Traveling northward the friar sent Estevan ahead with instructions to send back reports on what he
found. According to Marcos' report he went up the Sonora river valley and, after traveling eighty miles
across Sonora, reached the San Pedro river. There he found the Indians he called Pintados (because
his Pima guides called them Rsarsavina meaning spotted.) As the friar continued for five days down
the San Pedro he passed small, poor settlements where some of the people claimed to have seen
seven cities where the houses were eleven stories high and decorated with turquoises.
Did you know another significant exploration took place in 1539? Spanish explorer Hernando
de Soto became the first European to see the Mississippi River.
Did you know Alvarado and his men were the first Europeans to see American
bison
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