Richard Flint is research associate in history at the Center for Desert Archaeology, Tucson, Arizona. His publications include The Coronado Expedition: From the Distance of 460 Years (UNM Press) and Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: ""They Were Not Familiar With His Majesty, nor Did They Wish To Be His Subjects.
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"[Flint] deftly takes the reader through the expedition's background and its immediate preparations before telling the story of the "entrada" itself and tracing its aftermath...[an] essential work." "In this well-written and engaging volume...Flint uses a wide range of individual accounts that, taken together, provide an amazingly personal description of the Coronado expedition and the responses of indigenous peoples to the encounter....This book is a much needed and fascinating look into one of the most turbulent times in the Americas....Richard Flint has achieved a rare goal in historical writing; he has produced an accessible and enjoyable book that reexamines a topic we though we knew and prompts us to look deeper." "To date, there has been no better-written capsule history of this expedition."