LETTER from REV. L.VI. A. SHINE on the MASSACRE of the SPANISH EXPEDITION

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32 NEBRASKA HISTORY LETTER FROM REV. l.VI. A. SHINE ON THE MASSACRE OF THE SPANISH EXPEDITION Plattsmouth, Nebr., July 5, 1923. Dear lVIr. Sheldon: Being somevvhat pressed for time, it has been impossible for me to give as muc:h 8ttention to Baron de Villiers Article, a<; I vvould wish. However, having read the original French article, and your excel lent an<l substantial translation of the same, I most certainly agree with you, that this article on the Villasur Expedition of 1720, is of great historical importance to Nebraska. The three new documents, namely, the Leaf from t,he Spanish jour nal of the expedition; the letter of Governor Boisbriant, elated N ovem Ler 22, 1720; and the Mining Engineer Lallemand's letter of April 5, 1721, give us some new and contemporaneous evidence of the expedition. Hitherto, the reports have been very conflicting aud confusing, and the scene of the massacre has been variously loc:ated. V\'hile I was inclined to follow the opinions of Prof. John B. Dunbar, and 'William Dunn, in favor of the North Platte location, aftm· reatling that Spanish Leaf, I am now convinced that the Bar11n de Villier's lo cation conforms more closely to the Leaf's desc:ription, than does the North Platte, and consequently the scene of the masfacre 'Hilllcl be somewhere in the vicinity of the present Linwood, Nebr. V m·ious dates are given for the occ:nrrence, and ·we know that Felipe de Tamaris, one of the soldiers that escaped the massacre, brm1ght the news of the Spanish defeat to Santa Fe, on September 6, 1720. There were a few other survivors. The Chaplain, who was slain, was Father Juan Minguez, a Fran ciscan, who was stationed in Santa Fe in 1705; at Zuni, in 1706 and later at N am be, Santa Cruz, and Santa Clara Missions in New l\Iexico. The rcute of the expeclition, was generally northenst, from Santa Fe to Jicarilla, (now in Conejos County, Colorado,) then to Cuartelejo, in Sct,tt County, Kansas, and from there to the Jesus-Maria, or Platte river, a little ;:outhwest of the mouth of Prairie Creek. It now appears that it was the Loup river that was namecl St. Lawrence in honor of that famous martyr, whose feast clay falls on August tenth. Undoubtedly son~e Spanish rlocuments will be found, that will throw more light on the event. MICHAEL A. SHINE. .

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