Editing Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (section)

===Location of Quivira, Tabas, and Harahey===
Archaeological evidence suggests that Quivira was in central [[Kansas]] with the westernmost village near the small town of [[Lyons, Kansas|Lyons]] on Cow Creek, extending twenty miles east to the [[Little Arkansas River]], and north another twenty miles to the town of [[Lindsborg, Kansas|Lindsborg]] on a tributary of the [[Smoky Hill River]]. Tabas was likely on the Smoky Hill River. Archaeologists have found numerous 16th-century sites in these areas that probably include some of the settlements visited by Vázquez de Coronado.

At Harahey "was a river, with more water and more inhabitants than the other". This sounds as if Vázquez de Coronado may have reached the Smoky Hill River near [[Salina, Kansas|Salina]] or [[Abilene, Kansas|Abilene]]. It is a larger river than either Cow Creek or the Little Arkansas and is located at roughly the 25 league distance from Lyons that Vázquez de Coronado said he traveled in Quivira. The people of Harahey seem Caddoan, because "it was the same sort of a place, with settlements like these, and of about the same size" as Quivira. They were probably the ancestors of the Pawnee.<ref>Winship, 235; Wedel, Waldo R., "Archeological Remains in Central Kansas and their Possible Bearing on the Location of Quivira". ''Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections'', Vol. 101, No. 7, 1942, 1–24. Wedel lays the foundation for the location of Quivira, built on by many subsequent investigators.</ref>