City of Gold
The name Quivira derives from a fabled American Indian city of gold. In 1541 Spanish conquistador Francisco Vasquez de Coronado led an expedition onto the Great Plains of Kansas searching for wealth. He spent a month with the Quivirans, the ancestors of the Wichita Indians, but returned to New Mexico without finding any gold.
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