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Show PREFATORY HE object, primarily, in the publication of these volumes, has been the supplying of information to the people of New Mexico relative to the events occurring since the coming of the Spaniard and such information of the pre-Spanish period as has been made possible through the researches and investigations of archaeologists in that field. In accomplishing this purpose every available sourcebook and manuscript has been used, and the information therein contained appropriated wherever necessary to the concrete chronological arrangement of the leading facts of .S — a | LL ee ne Pe ee es ee eae Oe ee a i ede we ke De 7 Ps > | a geek sed ee Se : a wean MEL ad ad CASE beh NOTE | sa n southwestern history. Necessarily, the result is a compilation, and the work has been that of an editor. No claim to authorship, in the strict sense of the word, has ever asserted or maintained. Occasionally the reader will a few reflections and conclusions differing from those have heretofore written respecting the history of this tion of the United States, and these may be attributed been find who porsole- ly to the writer. The first acquaintance of the writer with the journey of Alvar Nuifiez and his companions came from reading the Spanish Conquest of New Meaico, by W. W. H. Davis, at one time United States attorney for the territory. Later the writer read Autores Espafoles, Historiadores Primitivos de las Indias, by Enrique de Vedia, Madrid, 1852. In this work are found the Comentarios and Naufragios of Alvar Nufiez. Dr. de Vedia, in his Apuntes, in the same volume, gives the biography of the distinguished Adelan- |