Juan de Padilla, OFM (1500–1542) was a Spanish Catholic priest and missionary who spent much of his life exploring North America with Francisco Vásquez de Coronado. He was killed in what would become Kansas by Native Americans in 1542. (From Wikipedia)
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The Kansa, or Kaw Indians, and Their History, and the Story of Padilla (Topeka: State printing office, 1908), by George P. Morehouse