Today being Sunday, I thought we'd leave Greensburg for a little bit and head west to the Coronado Cross, between Dodge City and Fort Dodge, Kansas.
Spanish explorer Francisco Vázquez de Coronado led the first European expedition into what is now the American Southwest in 1540. The group entered Kansas later that year in search of Quivira, a supposedly rich city. What they found, near where Lindsborg is now, was just a bunch of huts--no wealth, no gold--unless sunflower petals were included in the quick audit of the village.
On their way back to Mexico, Father Juan de Padilla held the first Christian mass in the North American interior, on the spot where the cross now stands, on Sunday, June 29, 1541.
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