Images de page
PDF
ePub

INDEX

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),

107

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

[blocks in formation]

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

and St.

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,

115

Bua, Governor of San Juan

pueblo, Popé slays, 179
Bucarely, Viceroy, Anza and,

272

Burr, Aaron, plans filibustering | Caliquen, De Soto at, 53, 54-

raid, 257

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

to

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

55

Canada settled by French,

129

Cañaveral, Cape, Ponce de
León at, 8

Cancer, Luís, Dominican friar,
Florida expedition, 121-28,

189

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,

11

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,

162

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

[blocks in formation]

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

« PrécédentContinuer »