科罗纳多CORONADO

我把这个问题叫做“学校难题”，因为它确实是这样的:美国所谓的“美国”历史通常是从英国殖民地建立开始的。英国的第一个永久殖民地是始于1607年的詹姆斯敦(弗吉尼亚州)。1620年，英国清教徒乘坐“五月花”号船来到普利茅斯(马萨诸塞州)登陆。
I’m calling this item School Daze because that’s what it is, really: So called "American" history in the U.S. is generally taught as beginning with the establishment of British colonies. The first permanent British settlement was Jamestown (in Virginia) begun in 1607. The ship Mayflower, bringing English pilgrims to Plymouth (in Massachusetts), landed in 1620.

但是，从现在的墨西哥城出发，科罗纳多的探险队在1540年到达了印第安人的阿尔卡福村(现在的阿尔伯克基)。由于他所寻求的是西波拉七座城的梦想中的财富，军队并没有找到他们所期望的财富，所以科罗纳多没有在那里建立殖民地，带着队伍回到了墨西哥城。当然，这次探险确实提供了信息，促使胡安·德·奥阁下在1595年建立了圣胡安(在新墨西哥州)，那里当时是泰格爱科斯，属于凯帕岛的印第安人部落。
However: Starting from what is now called Mexico City, Coronado’s expedition reached the Indian village of Alcanfor (at present-day Albuquerque) in 1540. Since what he was seeking was the presumed wealth of the Seven Cities of Cibola, the military force did not locate the kinds of riches they expected, and so Coronado led it back to Mexico without founding a colony. This expedition did provide information that led to Don Juan de Onate’s founding in 1595 of San Juan (in New Mexico) at what had been to that time the Tiguex pueblo of Caypa.

赫伯特·伊·博尔顿:《普韦布洛斯和平原的骑士》(阿尔伯克基：新墨西哥大学出版社，1949年)，第410-411页: 提供一个更详细的描述，其中一些你已经听说过了。
Herbert E. Bolton, Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains, (Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press, 1949), pp. 410-411, provides a more detailed account, some of which you’ve already heard.