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Excerpt from The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542: From the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska, as Told by Himself and His Followers
The expedition started on February 23d, and a month later, on Easter day, it entered Culiacan, then the northwestern out -post of European civilization, half way up the mainland coast of the Gulf of California. Here Coronado reorganized his force and, toward the end of April, he started north ward into the unknown country with a picked force of two hundred men equipped for rapid marching, leaving the rest to follow at the slower pace of the pack trains and the four-footed food supplies. Following the river courses up stream, the advance party was soon deep in the mountains. For two long months they persistently pushed ahead, the inhospitable country steadily growing worse. Eventually other streams showed them the way out on to a level district crossed by well-worn trails which led them toward the Seven Cities of Cibola. These were the goal of whose fame they had heard from the Franciscan friar, Marcos of Nice,who had viewed them from a distant hill top two years previously, and who now ao companied the expedition as guide and chap lain.
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