Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer (born 1510)

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Spanish explorer of the American southwest

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through what is now parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. Vázquez de Coronado had hoped to reach the Cities of…