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Show 228 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY FRANCISCO north of Dodge City to the bend of the Republican river, near Concordia, in Cloud county. The captain-general, as a result of his visit to Quivira, derived small satisfaction, enjoying only the empty honor of taking possession in the name of his royal master. He erected a cross with the inscription, ‘‘ Francisco Vasquez Coronado, general of an expedition reached this place,’’ and doubtless enjoyed also the manner in ulin he disposed of El Turco, who had been the cause of all his trials and who, as Jaramillo says, ‘‘called on all these people to attack and kal us. We learned of it, and put him under guard and strangled him that night so that he never waked up.’? 24 ‘ | Some time after the middle of August, 1541, Coronado and his little escort, totally unprepared for passing the winter at Quivira and anxious to know t 7 CORONADO LEAVES QUIVIRA army which AND RETURNS TO TIGUEX Arellano, | They left village where the captain-general had secured Indian guides, the Spaniards Arriving had been = ca a started on the return trip the Indian, Ysopete, in the erected the cross se havin soon reached ne Asean here, Coronado did not follow the route which he had when he came, but turned to the right and marched to the hs ishiaspee oorung to the country of the Querechos, where the Turk pi ee oa ee iieay gener pending the ag of forty days, traveling south- reac 1ed Tiguex, in time to make winter, and determining explorations further, along with the entire army and summer. to prepara- pursue his ne Ce The army, the command of which had been given to Don Tristan de Arellano, when Coronado started north to discover the province of Quivira, reached Tiguex about the middle of July, 1541, having on ‘ thle return trip, accomplished in twenty-five days’ marching what war and the cel array of facts Te could have pas i ee inhabitants ctoes chad a ey 3 by him, which ‘‘present such an ; a hundred songs Loa n possible that C ‘ i miles northeast from the Gibet. B 3 tthe AE and discovering a great group of spodaieadl villanaa the subsisting on an retarted untold decades, oceupied the valleg of the Kansas ant natural wealth, which was permanently available and of the » easies t / possibi le access, conditi . e Ameri , dititions which r i “14 gly ignor : the North teeny can were never willin ed by 44 Jaramillo, Col. Doc. Flo., p. 161 VASQUEZ CORONADO 229 had taken thirty-seven days in going. In this journey they passed by many salt lakes upon which were pieces of salt ‘‘bigger than tables, as thick as four or five finTHE RETURN OF THE ARMY UNDER gers.’’ On the plains they passed COMMAND OF ARELLANO many prairie-dog villages, and finally reached the Pecos river more than thirty leagues below where they had built the bridge on their The Indian guides informed them that this river, outward march. the Pecos, flowed into the river Tiguex, the Rio Grande, *‘more than twenty days from here and that its course turned toward the gant’ 2 During the progress of the army across the plains the Indian guides in directing the course pursued, in the morning, at sunrise, would shoot an arrow forward, and thereafter shoot other arrows When the army as the ones which had been shot were reached. Indians were the (Pecos) Cicuyé of finally arrived at the pueblo found in revolt and refused to furnish the Spaniards with food. Arriving at Tiguex, Arellano sent out foraging parties collecting supplies of food for the winter; some of these parties, in their wanderings, explored countries and found villages which had not Captain Francisco Barriobefore been known by the Spaniards. one nuevo ascended the Rio Grande, where he came to two provinces, que.** Yuqueyun other the and of which was called Jemez, because the 245 Additional proof that it was the Pecos that was bridged, Pecos flows into the Rio Grande, which was the river of Tiguex. 338, note, p. States, Hodge, F. W., Spanish Explorers in the Southern United miles below Puerto thinks the army on its return reached the Pecos about eighty de Luna, or not far from the present town of Roswell. this time at a This was the second time the army had crossed this river; the bridge on their point more than thirty leagues below where they had built How Tiguex. the into flowed it The guides told them that outward journey. their conclusions that ean Mr. Bandelier or Mr. Winship reconcile this fact with flows into the Missisthe bridge had been built over the Canadian, which finally Had as Cicuyé. Castafieda says that they followed up this river as far sippi? reached Cicuyé but have would never they followed up the Canadian the army range into Taos. would have gone into western Colfax county, or across the in the neighborhood It seems strange, however, if the army crossed the Pecos and the springs, place, that of Roswell, that the beautiful streams of water near not mentioned by all so different from the brackish water of the Pecos, are further I incline to the belief that the army crossed the Pecos Castafieda. noticed and mennorth than Roswell, else the Spring rivers would have been tioned. ‘¢Yuge-uinge-ge is 246 Bandelier, A. F., Final Report, part i, note, p. 123: The Tehuas occupied, says he, two pueblos on the Yuqueyunque of Castafieda. The four in the mountains may have the Rio Grande, and four in the mountains. |