In Popular Culture
- In the Western video game Gun, the game's villain seeks a golden cross which he believes leads to Quivira. A prologue scene shows Coronado's search for Quivira.
- In the Lincoln Child and Douglas Preston book Thunderhead, the location of Quivira is discovered to be a cliff dwelling, wheares the "gold" is found to be a highly valued gold colored, mica flecked pottery found only at the one city.
- In National Treasure: Book of Secrets, the treasure hunters search for Cibola to prove the Gates family was not involved with the Lincoln assassination.
- In Stephen King's The Stand Trashcan Man repeatedly refers to Las Vegas as "Cibola Seven in one."
- In Orson Scott Card's book 5 of The Tales of Alvin Maker, Heartfire, "Cibola" is mentioned by Verily Cooper along with the name "Crystal City".
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