Cool. They could charge people to pretend to shoot at indians with canon. Or, just use a rifle. What fun!
Some warriors...the had the Spanish outnumbered 20:1...
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During the combat, Spaniards fired cannons at Wichita Nation Indian warriors, who eventually fled the city.
Would a Bob Dole joke be appropriate here?
BTTT.
I don’t understand the significance of pouring water over that carved area on the rock?
A half inch cannon ball?
Historian Don Coldsmith wrote some wonderful novels about the early European exploration of the Kansas/Central Plains area in his “Spanish Bit” series.
Wonderful stories told by a masterful story teller.
https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=coldsmith+don
Bookmark.
Years ago I read a history of the Coronado expedition to the Kansas area. According to that author, while there he heard of the De Soto expedition then in Arkansas and tried to make contact. He failed.
When he left, some Spanish priests stayed behind, built what may have been the FIRST church in what is now the USA.
Later word came that the Indians liked the priests and the crops came up well due to their blessings.
HOWEVER, in usual Indian fashion, the priests wanted to preach to OTHER TRIBES, and Indian jealousy caused the Indians to kill the priests.
This was long before the fight mentioned in the article.
Cool. They could charge people to pretend to shoot at indians with canon. Or, just use a rifle. What fun!
Coronado & Desoto in Arkansas & Kansas ping
Interesting...
Did they find “Gore Lieberman” absentee ballots from Florida in the dig?
Husband has a Civil War cannonball on a shelf in our
living room.
Can someone tell me if it is still capable of exploding?
:o(
I read that just before the Europeans explorers came, there was a great die off of Indians in the Northern and Southern hemisphere due to disease, corresponding roughly to the plagues in Europe that killed half the population.
I can point them to some other 16th century enclaves. Dearborn. London.