Starting in 1528, Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca-after being shipwrecked off the coast of Florida-journeyed westward for eight years in the Gulf region of present-day Texas, living in ...

There is a rising star in Mexican politics. Senator Francisco Javier Garcia Cabeza de Vaca is a candidate for governor for the state of Tamaulipas, which sits along the border with Texas, adjoining ...

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 Your Majesty to conquer and govern the ...

The conquistador Cabeza de Vaca encountered numerous Indigenous communities on his grueling trek west. Living among them for nearly a decade, he became famous for his recount of survival. In his 30s, ...

The first lines of a book are usually a clue as to how good the rest of the book will be. Robin Varnum starts out her preface to the biography of the Spanish explorer with a bang: “I cannot claim that ...

With little dialog and exquisite, almost documentary-like images, Cabeza de Vaca offers a fascinating (if not mystical and at times just plain puzzling) foray back to early 16th-century America as it ...

Spanish explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca first set foot on land that would become Texas in 1528, when his crude raft ran aground near Galveston Island. The raft held survivors of an ill-fated ...

In 1528, a Spanish expedition flounders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades.