Friday, October 20, 2017

In letter to king of Spain, Coronado is first to describe Llano Estacado

 
(Texas Day by Day) ...  It was during his search for Quivira that Coronado came upon the Llano Estacado, which he described thus: "I reached some plains so vast, that I did not find their limit anywhere I went, although I travelled over them for more than 300 leagues ... with no more land marks than if we had been swallowed up by the sea .... There was not a stone, nor bit of rising ground, nor a tree, nor a shrub, nor anything to go by." Continued

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