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We Came Naked and Barefoot: The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-292-74235-2. Long, Haniel. Interlinear to Cabeza de Vaca (1936), a fictionalized account of Cabeza de Vaca's journey; Reséndez, Andrés. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca, Basic Books, Perseus ...
La Junta Indians is a collective name for the various Indians living in the area known as La Junta de los Rios ("the confluence of the rivers": the Rio Grande and the Conchos River) on the borders of present-day West Texas and Mexico. In 1535 Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca recorded visiting these peoples while making his way to a Spanish settlement ...
In 1790 Manuel Quimper, with officers López de Haro and Juan Carrasco, sailed the Princesa Real into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, following up on a voyage of Narváez the previous year. Quimper sailed to the eastern end of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, discovering the San Juan Islands and many straits and inlets. Having limited time he had to ...
Alonso del Castillo Maldonado (died after 1547) was an early Spanish explorer in the Americas.He was one of the last four survivors of the original members of the 1527 Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza and his African slave Estevanico.
Texas in the middle eighteenth century: Studies in Spanish colonial history and administration. University of California publications in history (No. 3). Berkeley: University of California. Folmer, Henri. (1940). De Bellisle on the Texas coast. Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 44 (2), 204–231. Gatschet, Albert S.; & Swanton, John R. (1932).
He was one of the last four survivors of the Narváez expedition, along with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso del Castillo Maldonado. Little is known about Estevanico's background but contemporary accounts described him as a " negro alárabe " or "Arabic-speaking black man" native to Azemmour, Morocco .
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (Panama, 1510–1519) Juan Ponce de León (Puerto Rico, 1508, Florida, 1513–1521) Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (United States, 1527–1536, 1540–1542) Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (United States, 1524–1527) Sebastián de Belalcázar (Ecuador and Colombia, 1533–1536) Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera (Peru, Argentina, 16th ...
Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent ... Cornell University Library digitization cu31924020420489 ... If the file has been modified from its original state, some ...