Searching for golden empires: epic cultural collisions in sixteenth-century America

Prologue: Simple Tales and Lost Truths

The Beginning : Cortés and the Gold of Mexico

Cortés Expands the Frontier

Shipwrecked in Unknown Country : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca and Friends

The New Viceroy Ponders the North

The Case of the "Lying Monk" : Marcos de Niza's Journey to the Seven Cities of Cíbola

Marcos Races Back to Mexico City

Cortés vs. the Viceroy : Discovering the Colorado River and "Country Enough for Many Years of Conquest"

To Cíbola by Land and Sea : The Coronado Entrada of 1540

Entering the Seven Cities of Cíbola

Meanwhile...(On the Colorado River, in Spain, and in Mexico City)

Coronado Fights a War, Reaches Kansas, and Returns to Mexico

Aftermath: Impacts on Culture and Understanding.