74 A VISIT FROM THE SPANIARDS. 



first north, and then northeast for another month or a 

 httle more. Here he discovered a country called Qui- 

 vira, and remained in it for twenty five days, visiting 

 several villaiges and exploring the country generally, 

 possibly going as far north as the fortieth degree of 

 north latitude. Most of the students of the Spanish 

 papers seem to agree that Quivira was located in the 

 central or in the eastern part of the state of Kansas. 

 Simpson has mapped the probable route that Coronado 

 followed in going out and in returning. On his outward 

 route he is supposed to have entered the present bor- 

 ders of this state somewhere near its southwest corner 

 (Fig. 32). From there he is supposed to have pursued 

 an easterly course over the country of the Cimarron, 

 turning to the north from a point fifty miles or so 

 west of the site of the present city of Wichita and 

 returning from the northwestern part of the state by 

 a more southerly route. 



A. F. Bandelier, a well known archaelogist and stu- 

 dent of early Spanish history in the southwest, believes 

 that Quivira is to be sought in the central part of the 

 state of Kansas about a hundred miles north of the 

 Arkansas, but he thinks that Coronado's route of 

 march was for most of the way in the territory south 

 of Kansas.* 



More recently Mr. G. P. Winship has made an ex- 

 haustive and critical study of the Spanish accounts of 

 Coronado's Expedition.** This author doubts that 



■"" Fray Juan de Padilla, by A. F. Bandelier, American Catholic Quarterly Re- 

 view, Vol. XV, p. 551. Also The Gilded Man, New York, 1893. 



■"* The Coronado Expedition, 1540—1542, by George Parker Winship, 14th 

 Annual Report ot the Bureau of Ethn., Washington 1896, Part I, pp. 329—613. 



