Coronado dropped out of sight after it, and appears never to have written a general report—at least nothing of the kind has ever been found. The chief reliance for information is on Castañeda ...

Visitors to this 300-foot-tall bluff in Kansas can see for miles across the Smoky Hill River Valley, and get a taste of ...

But when SMU anthropologist Matthew Boulanger looks at it, he gets a mental image of Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado making his way across the plains more than 470 years ago in ...