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Show 9 Chapter II. EARLY CONTACT OF THE UTAH INDIANS WITH THE WHITE RACE. The Spaniards. The earliest recorded visit of white men to what ie now Utah was in connection with the expedition of the great Spanish explorer, Coronado, when in search of the fabled rich Seven Cities of Cibola. In 1541 Coronado sent a party under Captain Gsfrcia Lopez de Cardenas along the Colorado river where it flows through southern Utah and Arizona. Cardenas entered only the extreme southern portion of Utah and the Indians met there have been identified with the Cocopa, a Yuman tribe. whose descendants still inhabit the lower Colorado out- 1 side the limits of Utah. The next white visitors, again Spaniards, were in 1776) the two Franciscan friars, Ve'lez Escalante and Francisco Dcminguez. Searching for a direct route from Santa Fe^ to I'onterey , Alta California, they made their way north as far as Utah Lake. They found no town buildings like the Moquis and Zunis, but wild Indians who at first were afraid, but when aosured of the friendliness i Spanish Explorations in the Southern United states, 1512- 15^ 3, pp. 133 et. seq. A. |
