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Show PRE-NORMON t' 'I 6F EXPLORATION THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVEH VALLEY ;'-4 _y men via Spain, coming from . west, east to o Europeans his from 'south to north. direct and shorter route more et c, spices, with their Indies, much a prized by much so and he did not live to day; date, length from entire its traversed after this dis- only penetrated the not if not 8.11 its width and much Colu."Tlbus believed he had found to the East half-century a had Mexico, Co10rado Valley, but had Little auspices of Spaia, under the Less than 1492. America in '.; Spanish the Christopher Columbus, sailing covered ...... the his rrasconception see dispelled. . great objective of the Spanish, however, The :E think of wealth---indeed, - . • J . -' ,.'" .... ; thought called because Golumbus Columbus himself had obtained 'iola; but much from the natives '- '., -..... Maximilian, replied, When the . , . , of the much coveted gold in Hispan-··" were the vast .,., Aztecs, asked for the , _ ht€)'F _ ,.', - these _., by Cor- source ': gold owned by of ) . no his people, he 1536, they stories had . r+hwest.". Panfilio de Narvaez four survivors of the ill-fated Seven Cities of Cibola course - . '1 "from the western Mexico about . '. ::U!mL _ ':',;., was' . .! .. It is. said.that when .:.... of the _ stores of this metal taken in.Peru in 1532. ;_;_ East. to the Indies of the their pedition of 1528 were'picked:up_by some'of, ' •• : immense 1 always I hel\. _. of the • emperer the last ., ;, .;,11_ :. • .-- .. , • 1 Indies--..:..·· some Pizarro by ... ,'" obsession with an the manland---in the invasions of Mexico on tez in 1519-22 and ... valuable, more ;&come " acquisition the mines of the West and They had found gold in the rivers them. so became may say this we was told glowing by countrymen in tales of wealth in the "far to the northwest" been told, them own ex- of Hexico.City.,. or and may have the Indians, - . , ·r |
