e of "conq
uest" and its incomplete replacement with "discovery." The writing does not travel with Onate to discover thSocorroe "hidden portion of the earth" of New Mexico; it uses that travel to reach and rediscover the hidden place of conquest-. Unlike other narratives of American conquest, Villagra's text generally resists the heterologic impulse to speak about the "other." Instead the text obse
ssively follows the Spani
