Abstract
The Coronado expedition is usually portrayed by historians and popularizers alike as a small army of Spanish knights in clanking armor dispatched by the king of Spain to look for gold. Thorough examination of the sixteenth-century documentary sources reveals that, instead, the expedition was very large and was not an army in any modern sense; its membership was not entirely or even predominantly Spanish; almost no one on the expedition possessed metal armor; the idea for the expedition originated in the New World, not in Spain; it was paid for by its members without financial support from the king; and the expedition was not in a literal sense looking for gold.
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