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Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy (ret.) Coronado, Calif...
Four centuries ago, in search of the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado beat a trail along the San Pedro River in southeast Arizona. Coronado never found the fabled wealth of the cities. But in recent years, evidence of other riches-in the form of big copper and molybdenum deposits-has been found by prospectors along the San Pedro. During World War II, the Magma Copper Co., seventh biggest U.S. copper producer, took out an option and set up a subsidiary, the San Manuel Copper Corp., to explore the deposit. In the past seven years...
Root-Hog or Die. Southwest Historian J. Frank Dobie (Coronado's Children, The Voice of the Coyote) picked up Ben Lilly's trail back in 1928, when he met the 20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery...
Although he now lives quietly in Coronado, Calif., Admiral William H. Standley, wartime ambassador to Russia, still keeps a keen eye on civic affairs. Last week he protested an outrage-in-the-making which had escaped almost everyone else in the state. The city of San Diego was about to dedicate a veterans' memorial building to "those Americans who have fought for the Four Freedoms." The old (77) admiral wasted no time in hurrying down to the city council...
Friar's Secret. Before they had gone far, Coronado's men began to distrust everything Fray Marcos had told them. Instead of the one "small hill" that he had reported between them and Cibola, they found almost impassable mountains. Machetes had to be used to hack a way along roads he had called "good." But Marcos remained cheerful. What seemed like outrageous hardship to the tenderfoot caballeros was easy going for the hardy friar, veteran of long treks through Peru and Central America. Besides, he had his secret. The royal road to riches he had talked about back...