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Subject: Coronado Expedition Conference Announcement
Author:  Harry Myers at NP-FOUN
Date:    1/12/00 8:44 AM


     Francisco Vasquez de Coronado Expedition Conference to be held in New
     Mexico and Texas

             A conference on the Coronado expedition is to be held April
     14-18,2000 titled "Contemporary Vantage on the Coronado Expedition
     through Documents and Artifacts." It will take place at two locations.
     Documentary and historical topics will be covered at New Mexico
     Highlands University in Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the 14th through
     noon of the 16th. The afternoon of the 16th will be taken up by travel
     to Blanco Canyon inFloyd County, Texas (northeast of Lubbock), the
     location of the Jimmy Owen archeological site (a recently confirmed
     campsite of the Coronado expedition). Then archeological and
     ethnohistorical topics will be covered at the conference center of the
     Plains Baptist Assembly in Blanco Canyon on the 17th through noon of
     the 18th.  The portion of the conference in Blanco Canyon will include
     a tour of the Jimmy Owens Site and the Floyd CountyHistorical Museum
     in Floydada, which houses artifacts recovered from the site.   During
     travel between Las Vegas, New Mexico, and Floyd County, Texas, several
     stops will be made along a reconstructed route of the expedition.
             Nearly 20 historians, archeologists, and linguists from around
     the country will present papers and talks on topics directly related
     to the Coronado expedition.  Those presenting papers will include
     Maureen Ahern, Felix Barboza Retana, Donald Blakeslee, Dee Brecheisen,
     Richard Flint, Shirley Cushing Flint, Frank Gagne, Judith
     Habict-Mauche, William Hartmann, Nancy Hickerson, Jack Hughes, Michael
     Mathes, Harry Myers, Michel Nallino, Enrique Porrua, Ann Ramenofsky,
     and Carroll Riley.  Like its predecessor conference in 1992, this
     conference will be a major event for both scholars and the general
     public interested in the expedition.  Program and registration
     information will be available after January 17, 2000 on the New Mexico
     Highlands University web page at www.nmhu.edu/CampLife/events.
     For further information contact: Dr. Richard Flint or Ms. Shirley
     Cushing Flint, P.O. Box 216, Villanueva, NM 87583.