Esteban and Company to New Mexico

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Federal writers series on the State of New Mexico (1942) which coincided with the celebration of the discoveries of the South West Esteban, entertained histories transferred from the arrival of Esteban and Company to New Mexico arriving at the head of the Coronado’s expedition. Esteban and company is said to have moved ahead of Fray Marcos, entering into areas in New Mexico where the locals did not for instance recognize him, and then ended his travels separated from his group with two of his Greyhounds heading through Arizona. The story of the arrival of Esteban begins with the arrival of a certain Castaneda who witnessed first hand, some of the preparation made by the Governor of New Spain at the time of the incident, and his name in 1528 was Nuno De Guzman. The main event of Guzman life is a ship wreck of the coast of what is purposely Florida, leading to his eventual encounter with four survivals of a ship wreck, which include Esteban. According to the book 'New Mexico(1942), “Their leader, Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca,….Andres Dorantes, Alonso De Castillo Maldonado, and Esteban (Estevan) the Negro Slave of Dorantes, wandered from the Coast of Texas to the Spanish settlements on the Gulf of California.” The story from here on takes a different from, for at least it writes that the

These men and their original crew had left Spain for Florida in 1927 and was ship wrecked as they said on the way from Florida to Texas, and were the only survivors. Based on the story, the slave Esteban worked for Antonio Mendoza, and had his histories in terms of his relationship with Mendoza - a one time governor of the New Spanish. In a separate history, we learn that Mendoza had requested the audience of Dorantes along with Esteban regarding sea travels, and that he mentioned Esteban to have intelligence about sea navigation following his experience and his record. But in this case, they book seem to suggest that Esteban was sent along with others to explore lands beyond the Spanish settlement, and in this expedition involved Esteban and not the other three, and would include Fray Marcos.

According to the Story, “Marcos set out from Culiacan on March 7, 1539, following the west coast of Sonora Valley where he stopped to rest and sent Estevan on ahead to explore and report back to him. If the Country was unusually good Estevan was to send a cross two hands long; if it was as rich and populous as New Spain, a still larger cross” Four days later, an Indian returned with a big cross, and the book continued that Fray Marcos followed after Estevan to the Northern Mexico and Southeastern Arizona but did not ‘over take Estevan, however, who reached the Zuni pueblo of Hawikuh, the first of the Seven Cities, and was killed there. Fray Marcos, upon learning of the Negro’s death, did not turn back until May, 1539, when, according to his account, he beheld Hawikuh from the top of a nearby mesa, the Zuni not permitting the friar to approach nearer.”

2014

Mr. Onwuka 

San Antonio