In this work, Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint present a collection of 34 documents concerning Coronado’s expedition between 1532 and 1542. Obviously, a great deal of this corpus was already available, notably in the two English texts, one by George Parker Winship (1896) and the other by George P. Hammond and Agapito Rey (1940). Moreover, many of the documents have been published in Spanish and disseminated in the Coleccion de documentos ineditos relativos al descubrimiento, conquista . . . (1864 – 84). But, as the two authors so aptly note, these sources can no longer be used by researchers because they contain a great number of errors, approximations, and erroneous translations in addition to poor paleographical transcriptions. Among the numerous errors attributed to these old editions and used by many historians to write about Coronado’s venture (e.g., Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado on the Turquoise Trail), one of the...

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