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Estevan, -1539

LC control no.n 50043338
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Personal name headingEstevan, -1539
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Variant(s)Dorantes, Esteban, -1539
Dorantes, Estevanico, -1539
Dorantes, Stephen, -1539
Esteban, -1539
Estebanico, -1539
Estevan, d. 1539
Estevanico, -1539
Estevanillo, -1539
Stephen, the Blackamoor, -1539
Death date1539
Found inGoodwin, Robert. Crossing the continent, 1527-1540, c2008: CIP introd. (Esteban Dorantes; b. ca. 1500, Africa; d. 1539, Northeast Mexico)
Wilderness.net www homepage, Aug. 11, 2008 (Esteban (Estevanico) Dorantes; Moorish slave sent by the viceroy of New Spain in search of the Seven Cities of Gold; instead discovers Zuni Indian settlements in lands that are now New Mexico and Arizona)
Suite 101.com www homepage, Aug. 11, 2008: in article entitled America's Black West (Stephen, Estevanico, or Esteban Dorantes; first Black to visit the West; b. Morocco and arrived in the New World in 1527 as part of an exploration venture to Florida; later explored the American Southwest)
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