T H E G I L D E D M A N
(EL DORADO)
AND OTHER PICTURES OF THE SPANISH
OCCUPANCY OF AMERICA
BY
A. F. BANDELIER
AUTHOR OF MEXICO, THE PUEBLOS OF PECOS, ETC.
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1893
Copyright, 1893,
By D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.
PUBLISHERS’ NOTE.
As compared with the peopling of our Atlantic seaboard, the first explorations of our Southwest by a white race have received comparatively slight attention, the minor consequences of the latter, and the inaccessibility of the early Spanish records, being the sufficiently obvious causes which have combined to prevent minute and exhaustive studies until within the past few years.