TerraNEWSLETTER OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE HISTORYCognita OF DISCOVERIES No. 10 • SUMMER 2010 Richard Flint Keynote Speaker at 2010 Annual Meeting Richard Flint, a distinguished historian expedition. In 2005 the Flints appeared and a Spanish paleographer, has been prominently in the award winning selected as the Keynote Speaker for the documentary Conquest of America that 51st annual meeting of the Society for appeared in the History Channel and the History of Discoveries. This meeting included a segment on the Coronado is being held in Sante Fe, New Mexico. expedition. His address will take place during the The Flints’ current project, which Annual Banquet held in the La Terraza began in 2006, is titled “Members of Room on the third floor of the La Fonda the Coronado Expedition: A Search for Hotel on Monday evening, September Documents.” It is already obvious that, 13, 2010. His presentation will be titled: when the research is completed, the “The Flipside of Discovery: Pueblo project will have exponentially increased Indian Response to the Approach of the what is known about the 2,000+ people Coronado Expedition.” who made up the expedition. It has Our speaker holds a BA from St. already done so. The data base being John’s College in Sante Fe, New Mexico, Richard Flint, Keynote Speaker at 2010 Annual Meeting currently compiled stands at 1,550 pages, an MA in Southwest Studies (with an and is likely to expand significantly before anthropology concentration) from New Years (2003), and Documents of the research is complete. Mexico Highlands University, and a PhD Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542: “They – By Ron Fritze, Vice President, SHD in history from the University of New Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, Athens, Alabama Mexico. He has worked as a freelance nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects,” writer and had held numerous grants for (2005). Flint has also written Great A complete list of authors and research into the history of the Coronado Cruelties Have Been Reported: the 1544 titles, along with their abstracts expedition and the history of New Investigation of the Coronado Expedition is on pages 5-10. Mexico. He was Research Assistant (2002) and No Settlement, No Conquest: Professor of History at New Mexico A History of the Coronado Entrada Highlands University from 1999- (2008). He has written four other books INSIDE THIS ISSUE 2004. Currently he holds the positions with Shirley Cushing Flint concerning photo to come From the President 2 of Research Associate in History at Southwestern topics. Currently they 3 the Center for Desert Archaeology in have a sixth book on the Coronado From the Terrae Cognita Editor 3 Tuscon, Arizona and Research Associate expedition under review. SHD Web Site Professor in the Latin American and The Flints have conducted extensive From the Terrae Incognitae Editor 4 Iberian Institute of the University of research in archives in Mexico, Authors, titles and abstracts 5 New Mexico. He is the author of over Spain, and the United States and for Fall 2010 SHD Meeting twenty journal articles and numerous have participated in archaeological 2010 SHD Essay Contest Winner 10 presentations. He is the leading expert investigations in New Mexico, Texas, Photo Gallery: Santa Fe, NM 11 on the Coronado expedition having and Arizona related to the Coronado News of Members 12 edited or authored five books on that entrada. They have directed two major Calendar of Events 16 topic. With his wife Shirley Cushing conferences on the Coronado expedition, Annual Election for Treasurer 20 Flint, also a historian, he has coedited one in 1992 and the most recent in and Council The Coronado Expedition to Tierra 2000. Those conferences have directly SHD Officers, Council and 20 Nueva: The 1540-1542 Route Across resulted in location and identification of Committees the Southwest (1997), The Coronado the Jimmy Owens Site near Lubbock, Expedition from the Distance of 460 Texas, a 1541 campsite of the Coronado FROM THE PRESIDENT Santa Fe Dreamin’ In the 1960s, the Mamas and the Papas, a 1850, when the current western boundary of popular folk-rock group at the time, had a Texas was defined and the familiar shape of huge hit titled “California Dreamin’” about the state we know today was created. how the Golden State had come to embody My dreams of Santa Fe are more benign. the idealism of the decade and how people The SHD, unlike the Texans in the 1840s, longed to move there to experience its will be welcomed with open and gracious magic. Well, I am writing this column, my arms in New Mexico. Santa Fe is currently first as president of SHD, and thinking— celebrating its 400th anniversary, making it maybe dreaming—of Santa Fe, the site of the third oldest permanent settlement in the the 2010 annual meeting. U.S., behind St. Augustine and Jamestown. Texans like me have long dreamed SHD will be meeting there on September of Santa Fe. Some of you know that the 12-14, and the meeting and venue will be Republic of Texas, in an audacious move Imre Demhardt Gerald D. Saxon, SHD President a great one. , working after the revolution in 1836, claimed the with Ron Fritze and me, is chairing the Rio Grande as the country’s western boundary. This program committee, and has put together sessions that claim—and it was nothing more than a claim—included are sure to engage, stimulate, and educate attendees. In Santa Fe, the capital of New Mexico, as part of the new addition, Dennis Reinhartz, former SHD president and Texas Republic. Texas President Mirabeau Lamar even current Santa Fe resident, has planned an optional tour of attempted to send the so-called Santa Fe Expedition to the important historical sites in northern New Mexico. New Mexican capital to extend Texas control in the early La Fonda Hotel, a former Harvey House on the 1840s. historic plaza, is the meeting site. The hotel is surrounded The expedition included 300 men and was a disaster by museums, stores, art galleries, restaurants, historical from the word “go.” To make a long story short, the men sites, and pretty much anything a visitor might want. I never reached their destination and instead were captured encourage you to visit the SHD website for details and by the New Mexicans in eastern New Mexico (or was register early for the meeting. The website link is: that western Texas?), shackled, and force-marched to http://www.sochistdisc.org/annual_meetings/annual_2010/ Mexico City. Those who survived were imprisoned in and annual_meeting_2010.htm?PHPSESSID=a937fdef53b8e2b around the town, but were eventually released due to the 2c986d12869dde54a intervention of the U.S. Texas gave up its claims to Santa Fe and the upper Rio Grande region in the Compromise of Continued on page 4 Left: La Fonda Hotel Rooftop. Above: La Fonda Hotel on the historic Santa Fe Plaza. 2 • The Society for the History of Discoveries FROM THE EDITOR SHD Members and Their Passions The Society for the History of Discoveries is a vigorous and Book Fair to the Historical Museum for a few hours to show dynamic organization. Everyday I am reminded of this as and, hopefully, sell to some local members of the museum. I field questions and comments from our widely dispersed In the meantime, Joe had invited almost 50 people to come membership. We hail from twenty-one different countries and to the museum for the event. Surprisingly, he said, all were encompass a wide variety of disciplines and professions. But enthusiastic and some even bought maps. This pleased the above all we are passionate about the world in which we live dealers and, more importantly, it was an indication of interest and work. in future “map fairs.” In the past four years, I have come to know many of you, That interest was all it took to get Joe started. First, he had and I am amazed at the zeal and energy you exhibit for both to determine a date for the planned annual event that would this organization and others with which you are engaged. not conflict with local happenings or with any of the multiple Many of you actively pursue research and writing in your map related activities. That was not easy as he found that the particular areas of interest and share your expertise at the favorite weekend conflicted with the California Book Fair, Annual Meetings. Others of you support and encourage where the major dealers had been going for years. Much associated organizations and projects. research followed to settle on the first weekend in February. One such individual in our organization is Joe Fitzgerald, It was also a good time for people to visit South Florida since the founder and chairman of the Miami Map Fair that is hosted “the weather is usually nice.” Joe remarked that date works fine by the Historical Museum of Southern Florida and Caribbean. except when the Super Bowl is played in Miami on the same I first made contact with Fitzgerald when I was the Secretary- weekend, which has happened twice in the last nineteen years. Treasurer of the Texas Map Society (TMS), and he sent me the But then, they just move the Map Fair to the last weekend in TMS membership fee for his nephew who lived in Dallas. Joe, January. an avid map collector, wanted to share his love for both history Most of us associate the Miami Map Fair with Joe, but and maps with his young nephew. he will quickly tell you that the success of the Fair is largely Recently, I asked Joe how he had gotten involved in due to the untiring work of Marcia Kanner, former Chair and the Map Fair.