factoid…

the first four non indigenous men to step foot into what is now New Mexico were lost wanders that walked all the way from Florida to northwest New Spain…the heartiest of them was a black slave belonging to another of the four…his name was Estevan

later he was the principle guide of a small band of explorers who tried to search out Cibola, the Seven Cities of Gold thought to be somewhere in northern NM…Estevan was well ahead of the rest scouting the terrain when he stumbled onto the Zuni pueblo in western NM where he was promptly killed