Abrado, Marchioness, bride of Ulloa, 240 Ácoma, Alvarado reaches, 94; Castañeda's description of, 94; Espejo goes to, 168; Oñate captures, 174 Aguayo, Marquis de, Texas expedition, 227
Alabama, De Soto in, 51, 59- 60
Alamo (San Antonio), mission started, 226
Alaniz, companion of Vaca, 30; death, 31
Alarcón coöperates with Coro- nado, 89, 107 Albuquerque, 183; textiles manufactured at, 185 Alva, Duke of, on Spanish subjection of Louisiana, 242-43
Alvarado, Hernando de, mem- ber of Coronado's expedi- tion, 94-95, 96 Alvarado, Pedro de, conqueror of Guatemala, death (1541),
Amazons, legend of California, 105, 106
Amichel, Spanish name for Texas coast, 10 Anian, Strait of, quest of fabled, 108, 117, 174, 208; Drake and, 113, 114, 169; leads to discovery of Bering Strait, 118, 258 Anza, Juan Bautista, Califor- nia expedition, 269-72; first
to cross Sierras, 271; leads colony to San Francisco, 272-76 Apache Indians, Estevanico crosses present reservation of, 83; and Coronado, 99; part in Pueblo Revolt (1680), 179; Spanish policy regard- ing, 190; Kino and, 200; depredations in Sonora, 201; block trade with New Mex- ico, 230; Mézières's cam- paign of extermination, 252; steal horses of Anza's colo- nists, 275 Appalachee reaches, 23
Bay, Narváez
Appalachen, Indian town in northern Florida, 21, 22 Aquixo (Arkansas) cacique visits De Soto, 65-66 Aranda, Count of, on Spanish acquisition of Louisiana, 242 Arbadaos Indians, Vaca among, 39-40 Arellano, Tristán de Luna y,
with Coronado's expedition, 89, 92, 100, 102; Florida expedition, 131-32; replaced as leader by Villafañe, 132 Arikara Indians, fur traders among, 255
Arizona, settlement, 188; mis-
sions in, 191; Kino's mission- ary enterprise, 192, 193-96, 198-201; Jesuit missionary revival (1732), 201; silver discovered, 201-02; origin
Belén, mission settlement at, 185 Beltrán, Father, Franciscan, accompanies Espejo, 168 Benavides, Father, account of Queres mission, 178
Bent, Charles, American pio- neer, 187
Bercerillo, dog belonging to Ponce de León, 5
Bering, Vitus, expedition, 258 Beteta, Gregorio de, Domini- can monk, accompanies
Fray Luís Cancer, 123, 125, 126, 127; with Villafañe, 133 Bienville, J. B. le Moyne,
Sieur de, brother of Iber- ville, Governor of Louisiana, 220; founds New Orleans, 220; captures Pensacola, 226; protests transfer of Louisiana to Spain, 237 Biloxi, French fort built at, 219 Bimini, Island of, Ponce de León seeks, 6
Biscayne Bay, Spanish fort on, 154
Boisblanc, leader in Louisiana revolt, 248
Bolton, H. E., ed., Kino's Historical Memoir, quoted, 198-99, 203-04
Boneo, Governor,
Denis, 229, 230
Boone, Daniel, 256
Bormé, fur trader, 251
Boscana, Padre, preserves In- dian song, 289
Boyano, Sergeant, with Me- néndez, 153, 158
Braud, arrested after Louisi- ana revolt, 246; released, 247 British East India Company,
Bua, Governor of San Juan
pueblo, Popé slays, 179 Bucarely, Viceroy, Anza and,
Burr, Aaron, plans filibustering | Caliquen, De Soto at, 53, 54-
Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nuñez, see Vaca
Cabrillo, Juan Rodríguez, com-
mands Mendoza, (1543), 111 Cadillac, Governor of Louisi- ana, 220
sea expedition of 108-11; death
Cale, De Soto at, 52, 53 California, Montalvo's legend of island of, 105; Cortés names, 107; Cabrillo's ex- pedition to, 108-12; Urda- neta reaches, 112-13; Drake on coast of, 113; Cermeño seeks port on coast of, 114; Vizcaíno's expedition, 114- 119; Viceroy urges efforts be concentrated on, 177; Fran- ciscans in, 206; missions, 206, 279-87; added United States, 257; settle- ment, 258 et seq.; Portolá's expedition, 259-68; Anza's expedition, 269-72; colony led by Anza to San Francisco, 272-76; other settlements, 277; Serra's work in, 277- 279, 281; Government policy regarding missions, 282-84; secularization of missions, 283-84; colonization, 289; primitive life in, 290-95; bibliography, 301–02 California, Gulf of, Oñate explores, 176
California, Lower, discovered,
106; Vizcaíno commissioned to colonize, 114; Jesuits in, 188, 191, 196, 197, 202-05, 206; Kino's missionary en- terprise, 192, 196; Salvatierra in, 196, 197, 202-05; Kino's theory of geography of, 197; Dominicans in, 206; bibliog- raphy, 300
Canada settled by French,
Cañaveral, Cape, Ponce de León at, 8
Cancer, Luís, Dominican friar, Florida expedition, 121-28,
Canoes, Town of, Cabrillo at, 110
Cape Fear River, Ayllón calls Jordan, 17
Cárdenas, López de, views Grand Canyon, 92, 93 Caresse, leader in Louisiana revolt, 248
Carlos, cacique in Florida, 8,
Carlos III of Spain, accession, 232; reforms, 233, 234 Carolina, De Soto in, 51; see also North Carolina, South Carolina
Caroline, Fort, French settle-
ment, 136, 137; menace to New Spain, 138; Ribaut at, 140, 144; Menéndez mas- sacres French at, 145; re- christened Fort San Mateo, 146; French reprisal at, 157-58
Carson, Kit, 187 Cartagena, sacked by English,
Cartier, Jacques, discovers St. Lawrence River, 128, 150 Castañeda, historian of Coro- nado's expedition, 90, 165; describes Grand Canyon, 92-93; on Ácoma, 94; de- scription of Texas country, 99-100
Castillo, Vaca and, 28, 36, 38, 39
Catherine de' Medici, Philip II
marries daughter of, 135; Philip and, 139; and mas- sacre of Ribaut's colony, 155
Charlotte Harbor, Ponce de León lands near, 11 Cherokee Indians, De Soto among, 59 Chesapeake Bay, Menéndez projects settlement on, 154; Father Segura founds mis- sion, 159; see also Santa Maria, Bay of
Chickasaw Indians, De Soto among, 63-64 Chicora, 18; Gordillo lands in, 13; mythical tales of, 14- 15; Ayllón obtains patent to, 15; colony taken to, 16-17 Chicorana, Francisco, Indian taken captive by Gordilla, 13; tells myths of Chicora, 14-15; deserts Ayllón, 17 Chouteaus, fur traders, 252 Chozas, Pedro, Franciscan, 160
Cibola, Estevanico learns of
the Seven Cities, 82; Fray
Marcos seeks, 82-83; origin of name, 82 (note); Estevan- ico seized at, 83, 85; Fray Marcos tells of, 87-88; Cor- onado seeks, 89, 90; Ribaut learns of, 136; further search for, 166; see also Seven Cities Clamorgan, fur trader, 252, 254 Clark, G. R., 253
Coahuila, French menace, 213;
León Governor of, 214; French plan to conquer, 226 Coligny, Admiral of France, sends out colony under Lau- donnière, 135-36; and mas- sacre of colony, 155; and Gourgues' expedition, 156 Colorado added to United States, 257
Colorado River, Kino explores, 197 Columbia
River, myth of River of the West leads to discovery of, 118 Columbus, Diego, Governor of Española, 5; sets Indians free, 13
Comanche Indians, block trade with New Mexico, 230; Vial in country of, 254
"Company of Explorers of the Missouri," 255
Cook, Captain James, 277 Coosa, De Soto at, 59–60; Arellano wishes to go to, 132; Menéndez at, 150- 151
Coronado, Francisco Vásques de, heads expedition, 80; at Culiacán, 81; expedition, 88-103, 106, 108, 165; treach- ery towards Indians, 97 Cortés, Francisco, nephew of Hernando, 106
Cortés, Hernando, conquest of Aztecs, 3, 12; Ponce emu- lates, 10-11; and Narváez, 19; and Amazon legend, 106, 107
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