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location of those cities had progressively moved from the Antilles to the Western Indies to Mexico, and now was believed to be in the territory of New Mexico (Junquera 14; Hammond 1979, 20-33). Thus the conquest of New Mexico is formulated in part as a quest for the source of legend, the answer to an originary exile. The ever vanishing origin seduces the conquistador farther and farther north, taking Onate as far north as Wichita, in present-day Kansas, before colonial auth

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