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Updated: May 2, 2025
The Colorado River was first called Rio del Tizon, "River of the Brand," by the Spaniards, on account of the local custom of carrying fire in rolls of cedar bark. Coronado's men were the first to discover the Grand Canon. Pueblo, the Spanish word for "town," is applied to all Indians living in the terraced houses of the southwest. The Zunis, Hopis, and Queres are the principal pueblo tribes.
The experience of Alarcon was immediately typical of much that was to follow in the centuries of endeavour to arrive at an intimate knowledge of this savage torrent. The Unknown River Alarcon Ascends it Eighty-five Leagues and Names it the Rio de Buena Guia Melchior Diaz Arrives at its Banks Later and Calls it the Rio del Tizon Cardenas Discovers the Grand Canyon.
Castaneda, the chief chronicler of the Coronado expedition, says the river Cardenas found was the Tizon, "much nearer its source than where Melchior Diaz crossed it," thus showing that its identity was well surmised, if not understood, at that time.
Maldonado, who had been to the coast, went with it. Diaz retained eighty men, part of whom were to defend the settlement of San Hieronimo, and twenty-five were to accompany him on his expedition in search of Alarcon. From this circumstance, Diaz called the large river he found here the Rio del Tizon. This was the Buena Guia of Alarcon.
Owing to the habit of the Indians at the lower portion of the river of warming themselves in cold weather with a burning stick, Diaz called the river El Rio del Tizon the River of the Firebrand. Disaster Comes to the Spaniards.
"Buena Guia" "del Tizon," "Esperanza," and "los Martires," all in about a century and a half, and still the great Dragon of Waters was not only untamed hut unknown. Kino kept up his endeavours to inaugurate somewhere a religious centre, but without success.
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