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Coronado Center Planned At Site Of Kansas Visit
State Historical Society moves to convert the Coronado site near Saxman in Rice County into an interpretive center. Officials seek legislative backing, with a three to five year opening target, budgeting 12000 for artifact inventory and continuing Smithsonian-led digs begun in the 1970s. Archaeologists note a vast Wichita village system from Lyons to Lindsborg with population estimates up to 125000, a startling precolonial urban pattern in the plains. Coronado’s quest for Quivira yielded no gold and some brutal acts, while later expeditions struggled to trace his exact camp.
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Topeka
Francisco de Coronado
Southwest
Kansas
New Mexico
Arizona
Coronado
Quivira
Texas
North Dakota
Tom Witty
THE
State Historical Society
Saxman
Rice County
Witty
Historical Society
Smithsonian Institution
Ponce de Leon
Fountain of Youth
Florida
Kingdom
Canyon
Tex
Turk
Homer Socolofsky
Kansas State University
Lyons
Lindsborg
McPherson County
North America
Juan Padilla
Fransico Leyva de Bonilla
Antonio Gutierrez de Humana