Prologue: Simple Tales and Lost Truths
The Beginning : Cortés and the Gold of Mexico
Cortés Expands the Frontier
Shipwrecked in Unknown Country : The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca and Friends
The New Viceroy Ponders the North
The Case of the "Lying Monk" : Marcos de Niza's Journey to the Seven Cities of Cíbola
Marcos Races Back to Mexico City
Cortés vs. the Viceroy : Discovering the Colorado River and "Country Enough for Many Years of Conquest"
To Cíbola by Land and Sea : The Coronado Entrada of 1540
Entering the Seven Cities of Cíbola
Meanwhile...(On the Colorado River, in Spain, and in Mexico City)
Coronado Fights a War, Reaches Kansas, and Returns to Mexico
Aftermath: Impacts on Culture and Understanding.
Searching for golden empires : epic cultural collisions in sixteenth-century America by William K. Hartmann. ISBN 9780816530878. Published by The University of Arizona Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.