When Coronado Came To Kansas in Kansas

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	When Coronado Came To Kansas
Kansas State Historical Marker
Seward County
	KS, USA

	Francisco Vasquez de Coronado, with 36 soldiers and Father Juan de Padilla, marched north from the Rio Grande valley in the spring of 1541. Coronado's objective was the land of Quivira, described to the Spaniards as a fabulously wealthy kingdom where gold was commonplace. In June the expedition entered the Arkansas River to what is now Rice and mcPherson counties. The Spaniards found no gold, only the grass lodges of the Quiviran Indians, and the guide who misled Coronado was killed. US-54, Seward County Jewel Avenue in City Park, Liberal