Over the course of the last two decades, Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint have moved to the forefront of a long line of scholars dedicated to the study of the activities of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado from 1540 to 1542. Principal among their findings is that the Coronado expedition included as many as 1,500–2,000 individuals—rather than the 288 Europeans often cited from incomplete muster rolls. Of these people, 1,300 were Indians from central and western New Spain. The Flints’ contributions include numerous articles and several books covering a remarkably wide range of topics related to the Coronado expedition through the Southwest. As the title suggests, interest in and serious study of everything related to Coronado is almost half a millennia old.
This volume, however, is strictly cutting edge. The result of a conference the editors hosted in April 2000, the book’s 17 chapters present findings from the fields of...
