There was hardly any gold and silver in these "cities," so a great grief fell upon Coronado and his comrades.
[Illustration: _By permission of the Bureau of Ethnology._ THE PUEBLO OF ZUNI (FROM A PHOTOGRAPH).] [Sidenote: Coronado finds the Great Plains.] 14.

The Great Plains .-- Soon, however, a new hope came to the Spaniards, for an Indian told them that far away in the north there really was a golden land.

Onward rode Coronado and a body of picked men.

They crossed vast plains where there were no mountains to guide them.

For more than a thousand miles they rode on until they reached eastern Kansas.
Everywhere they found great herds of buffaloes, or wild cows, as they called them.