Author: Greg Drevenstedt

A sampling of the fun, challenging curves on the Coronado Trail, with the Morenci Mine in the distance. (Photos by the author) From 1540 to 1542, decades before European colonies were established on the Atlantic side of the Americas, the Spanish conquistador Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led an expedition from Mexico, where he was governor of New Galicia, north through what is now Arizona, New Mexico, and across the plains of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The expedition’s search for the fabled “Seven Cities of Gold” proved to be a failure, and Coronado returned to Mexico in disgrace. Scan the QR…