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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Famous quotes containing the words city and/or gold:
“No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under,
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)