"The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542. Extract from the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-1893, Part 1" is a nonfiction book written by noted American historian and geographer George Parker Winship. In this book, the author tells about the famous historical journey of the Spanish conquistador and missionary Francisco Vasquez de Coronado to the northwestern territories of North America in the 16th century. It describes the events, discoveries, and interactions with local tribes and cultures that Coronado and his expedition encountered along the way. This book is an inexhaustible source of information on the development of exploration of the Northwest Coast of the United States in the early colonial era."