Coronado in the Southwest, 1540-42 .-- In 1540 Coronado set out from the Spanish towns on the Gulf of California to seek for more gold and silver.

For seventy-three days he journeyed northward until he came to the pueblos (pweb'-lo) of the Southwest.

These pueblos were huge buildings of stone and sun-dried clay.

Some of them were large enough to shelter three hundred Indian families.

Pueblos are still to be seen in Arizona and New Mexico, and the Indians living in them even to this day tell stories of Coronado's coming and of his cruelty.