Captain Marcos Farfán de los Godos was a Spanish explorer who explored the modern Mexico and Arizona.
Early life
editCareer
editFarfán de los Godos was sent to regions north of present-day Mexico by Juan de Oñate to explore territory and look for mines.[1][2] In 1598, he went to modern-day Arizona, where he was met by the Hopi people.[2]
Farfán staked out claims on mines near present-day Jerome, Arizona.[2][3]
Poet Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá mentioned Farfán in one of his poems.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b Simmons, Marc (1993). The Last Conquistador: Juan de Onate and the Settling of the Far Southwest. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780806123684.
- ^ a b c de los Caballeros, Juan. "Captain Farfan and his Forgotten Trail". Northern Arizona University. Retrieved September 8, 2015.
- ^ Hickerson, Nancy P. (Winter 1996). "The Servicios of Vicente de Zaldívar: New Light on the Jumano War of 1601". Ethnohistory. 43 (1): 133. doi:10.2307/483346. JSTOR 483346.
- ^ Harris, Max (2010). Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. pp. 161–162. ISBN 9780292779297.