El Llano Estacado, Exploration And Imagination On The High Plains Of Texas And New Mexico, 1536-1860

JOHN MILLER MORRIS

Publication: Texas State Historical Association, 1997, Austin

First Edition. Cloth. 414pp. Many illustrations. 15 Maps. An excellent work, presented in 4 separate sections. "Part One, Lo Llano:Coronado and the Llano Road to Quivira, 1536-1542" is a detective story on the Lost Coronado Trail. The key to this ancient Southwest mystery ... where did the Spanish go in Texas in 1541? ... is understanding what they saw and how they remembered it in their writings; "Part Two, The Llano Frontier: Geography and Geosophy of Spanish Contact, 1542-1860" studies the three centuries of Spanish exploration and imagination following Coronado; "Part Three, The Illimitable Prairie: Anglo-American Imagineers and the Romantic Discovery of the Llano Estacado, 1803-1844 analyzes the romantic discovery of the Llano in the Anglo imagination;" and in "Part Four, The Great Zahara: National Exploration and Environmental Discovery, 1845-1860" the author rides the trail of the classic Anglo explorers of the Llano: James W. Abert, Randolph Marcy, John Pope, and others. As New in dust jacket.