Peter Stark, author of THE LOST CITIES OF EL NORTE

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Tue Jul 07 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Boswell Book Company | Milwaukee, WI

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Peter Stark, author of THE LOST CITIES OF EL NORTE: CORONADO'S QUEST, THE UNCONQUERED WEST, AND THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN RESISTANCE
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Boswell Book Company presents an evening with Peter Stark, author of The Lost Cities of El Norte, a thrilling and masterfully crafted narrative of the Conquistador Francisco Coronado’s expedition across 2,500 miles of the vast uncharted North American interior where he was turned back by fierce indigenous resistance that would thwart white rule for the next three hundred years.

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Peter Stark is an adventurer and historian. He is the author of Astoria: Astor and Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire, a New York Times bestseller and a PEN USA Literary Award finalist. A former correspondent for Outside magazine, Stark has also been published in Smithsonian, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Men’s Journal. His other books include Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father, a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize; and Gallop Toward the Sun: Tecumseh and William Henry Harrison's Struggle for the Destiny of a Nation.

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Boswell Book Company, 2559 North Downer Avenue, Milwaukee, United States

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