Francisco Coronado Expeditions Francisco Vazquez de Coronado served as a political liaison for the preliminary exploration. Francisco came from a prominent family in Salamanca and after the death of his father and mother he did not inherit the family fortune, this put him in a position to move to New Spain and hopefully pursue his dream of making his fortune and becoming rich . At the age of twenty-five Francisco arrived in New Spain in 1535, upon his arrival he was introduced and assigned to a highly appointed officer, Viceroy Mendoza. As time went by he married a rich woman called Dona Beatriz de Estrada, her mother-in-law gave Francisco a large sum of money called a "hacienda", which means he received a large estate or plantation with a living house. Around 1537 Francisco began to make a name for himself when a rebellion broke out just outside of Mexico; he successfully repressed the rebellion and the following year Mendoza appointed him “regidor”, that is, member of a municipal council. Then a year later, in 1538, at the age of twenty...