De Soto National Memorial
Coronado National Memorial
Pecos National Historical Park
Cabrillo National Monument
Here is the story of the first explorations of North America. De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery traces in graceful text and illustration the journeys of three captains of discovery into New Spain’s northern frontier between 1539 and 1543. Their encounters with a new land and its native peoples mark the beginnings of American history.
Transcriber’s Notes
- Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
- Relocated all image captions to be immediately under the corresponding images, removing redundant references like ”preceding page”.
- Inverted the Timeline to better fit a vertical flow model.
- Silently corrected a few palpable typos.
- In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.