“And the seven cities of Cíbola…They were in North America, said the wise men of Spain. Europeans had been searching for the seven cities for a long, long time. Tales were told of seven priests who had wandered off from Europe and founded seven fabulously rich cities.”
—Joy Hakim, The First Americans: A History of US, Book One. 2nd edition. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993, 1999), p. 118.