“…The Indians communicated with them via sign language and said that there was a very large river in the land of the rising sun, and that one could go along this river for ninety days without a break from settlement to settlement. 7 Coronado's expedition through the High Plains is one of the most remarkable events in the European conquest of the Americas. After traveling all the way from Mexico City, they set out anew from somewhere near modern-day Pecos, New Mexico, and then headed east for twenty-two days with the full…”