TY - BOOK AU - Cannon, Ray, TI - The Sea of Cortez AV - F 1246 .C164 1966 PY - 1966/// CY - Menlo Park, Calif. PB - Lan eMagazine and Book Co. KW - Fishing KW - California, Gulf of Mexico N2 - Treasure and Tales of beautiful women lured Hernando Cortez and his conquistadores to the Vermilion Sea, a large body of water lying off the west coast of Mexico. Farther west was "California." Though originally a fanciful invention of a Spanish writer, it was believed to be an island paradise rich with gold pearls, and fair women, all of them awaiting the white man ER -