The book is a fascinating read that illuminates much about Spanish organizational skills and about Native American resistance to European encroachment.--Dan Shannon, Denver Westerners Roundup

This volume, with its extensive notes and bibliography, reflects the exhaustive research that its authors have put into it and the whole historical problem of the Coronado Expedition. Its subject matter and the approach to it are presented clearly, concisely, and comprehensibly. This volume should be attractive to anyone, scholar and interested reader alike, with a fascination for the history of the greater Southwest in general and the early exploration of the region specifically.--Dennis Reinhartz, Terrae Incognitae

This volume, with its extensive notes and bibliography, reflects the exhaustive research that its authors have put into it and the whole historical problem of the Coronado Expedition. Its subject matter and the approach to it are presented clearly, concisely, and comprehensibly. This volume should be attractive to anyone, scholar and interested reader alike, with a fascination for the history of the greater Southwest in general and the early exploration of the region specifically.--Dennis Reinhartz, Terrae Incognitae

The volume and the archive on which it rests are monumental achievements and major boons not only to Coronado scholars but to all students of Spanish colonialism. Their significance will not soon be eclipsed.--Travis Jeffres, Hispanic American Historical Review

Readers will not find more information and careful analysis of the Coronado Expedition in any other source.--Jack Becker, Panhandle-Plains Historical Review

The sheer breadth and depth of the research collected in this volume makes it a must-have for any scholar of colonial Latin America, the US borderlands, and exploration history.--H-LatAm

Richard and Shirley Flint have been working on Coronado since 1980. They are currently the leading experts on the expedition. Individually and together, they have written or edited six previous books on the topic. A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective summarizes and adds to their findings in encyclopedic form and is successful in giving the reader a deep and graphic understanding of the Coronado expedition.--Deborah and Jon Lawrence, Desert Tracks

Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint [. . .] analyze this complex, intensely ordered enterprise every which way, placing it deftly in the sixteenth-century world of Europe, America, and Asia.--John L. Kessell, author of Whither the Waters: Mapping the Great Basin from Bernardo de Miera to John C. Frémont