HIST174 – History of Mexico
The Northern Frontier
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I. Exploration and Conquest

- 1531, Nuño Beltrán de Guzmán (Cuilacán, Sinaloa)
- 1528-1536, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

Estebanico
The Seven Golden Cities (Cibola)

- 1540-42, Francisco Vásquez de Coronado, Hernando de Soto
- 1610, founding of Santa Fe

Camino Real: to El Paso, Parral, Durango, Zacatecas, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Central America

II. Mining

1547, Zacatecas
1554, Fresnillo
1563, Durango
1590, San Luis Potosí

- 1550s-1600, Chichimeca War

Gran Chichimeca
haciendas/ranchos/estancias
Basques

III. Missions

- Franciscans: Nueva Vizcaya and Nuevo Mexico

1680, Pueblo Revolt

- Jesuits: Sinaloa, Sonora, Durango, Chihuahua, Californias