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Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

(circa 1510–1554)

  • Governor of Spanish-ruled Mexico
  • Searching for gold, made expedition north in 1541 to land that would become Kansas
  • He and his men among first Europeans to visit Kansas
  • His horses were the first to be seen by Plains Indians
  • Wrote to King of Spain of “shaggy cows” (buffalo) on the plains

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