First Contact: The Apache

Mea culpa for letting our First Contact series lapse. It's been nearly two months since we discussed Martin Frobisher's encounter with the Inuit, and that's far too long to do without primary-source accounts of the clashes of civilizations. But we're back with a dandy today, courtesy of the Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado.

Though he never did manage to find those fabled Seven Cities of Gold in the American West, Coronado did manage to stumble upon an Apache tribe in 1541—the first