found:Goodwin, Robert. Crossing the continent, 1527-1540, c2008:CIP introd. (Esteban Dorantes; b. ca. 1500, Africa; d. 1539, Northeast Mexico)
found:Wilderness.net www homepage, Aug. 11, 2008(Esteban (Estevanico) Dorantes; Moorish slave sent by the viceroy of New Spain in search of the Seven Cities of Gold; instead discovers Zuni Indian settlements in lands that are now New Mexico and Arizona)
found:Suite 101.com www homepage, Aug. 11, 2008:in article entitled America's Black West (Stephen, Estevanico, or Esteban Dorantes; first Black to visit the West; b. Morocco and arrived in the New World in 1527 as part of an exploration venture to Florida; later explored the American Southwest)