The Oldest Gun Ever Found in America Was Left Behind on a Failed Gold Hunt

The Oldest Gun Ever Found in America Was Left Behind on a Failed Gold Hunt

In the mid-1500s, a Spanish explorer named Francisco Vázquez de Coronado went looking for the Seven Cities of Gold, a mythical stretch of blinged-out cities somewhere in the American Southwest that didn’t exist, as you could’ve guessed. You might remember hearing the name Coronado as the original owner of the jewel-encrusted golden crucifix on a chain that a teenage Indiana Jones is trying to snatch away from bandits at the beginning of Indiana …