Word: cibola
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...into the unexplored country to the north, in search of the legendary "Seven Cities of Antilia." What he said while his whiskers were coming off took his story dramatically out of the reach of expedition yarns. North of the Gila, he said, there was a fabulously wealthy country called Cibola, with "many walled cities." In Cibola, added the friar, even the women's belts were made of gold...
Before the summer was out, Fray Marcos' barber had peddled the news as far east as Cuba. The viceroy at Mexico City was quick to act. He decided to send an expedition up the Pacific coast to take possession of Cibola and its neighboring kingdoms. To head the expedition the viceroy chose 30-year-old Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, who helped finance it with a million dollars of his wife's fortune...
...hundred miles through northern New Mexico and Arizona and southern Colorado and Utah. This part of the trip will occupy about a month. Among the most interesting places they will visit are the modern pueblo Zuni, the largest in the West, the remnant of the ancient "seven cities of Cibola," and Moki, where they will see the snake dance...