Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca was born in 1490 and died in 1557. Today's media enshrine the cliché that our era has seen the greatest change in human history, but judge for yourself whether or not ...

Almost 500 years ago, the newly formed Empire of Spain — forged by the marriage of Ferdinand and Isabella, blessed by the pope, and unified by the eviction of Moors and the forcible conversion ...

Translated by Fanny Bandelier (1905) On the 27th day of the month of June, 1527, the Governor Panfilo de Narvaez departed from the port of San Lucar de Barrameda, with authority and orders from ...

Painting of Alvar Nâuänez Cabeza de Vaca on postage stamp. Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on land that would become Texas in 1528, when his crude raft ran aground ...

Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar active 16th century Relación y comentarios Subject Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar active 16th century Narváez, Pánfilo de d. 1528 Notes Published 1939. Part I is a paraphrase ...

FIRST ACROSS AMERICA; Remarkable Wanderings of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca in the Sixteenth Century from Florida to the Pacific Coast of Mexico.* ...

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer by Robin Varnum, University of Oklahoma Press, 368 pages ...