The Coronado Expedition, 1540–42
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Coronado departed from Compostela February 1540
Coronado’s routeacross the plains is uncertain.
While Coronado was in what is now Kansas, De Soto’s expedition was a few hundred miles to the southeast in present-day Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas.
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