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Texas Originals
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ca. 1490–ca. 1559
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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Spanish explorer of the New World
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| Born | Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca c. 1488/1490/1492 Jerez de la Frontera, Castile |
| Died | After 19 May 1559 (aged over 66–71) Jerez de la Frontera or Valladolid, Spain |
| Resting place | Spain |
| Occupation(s) | Treasurer, explorer, author of La relación y comentarios, and ex-governor of Río de Plata in Argentina |
| Spouse | María Marmolejo |
| Parent(s) | Francisco de Vera Mendoza y Hinojosa (father) María Teresa Cabeza de Vaca y Zurita (mother) |
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈalβaɾˈnuɲeθkaˈβeθaðeˈβaka]ⓘ; c. 1488/90/92[1] – after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across what is now the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish civilization in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La relación y comentarios ("The Account and Commentaries"[3]), whi
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The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca
Digital History ID 524
Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
Date:1542
Annotation: Cabeza de Vaca, who lived from about 1490 to around 1557, was the first European to explore North America and leave a written record. His reports that great wealth lay north of Mexico led the Spanish to explore Arizona and New Mexico.
Cabeza de Vaca was a member of a Spanish expedition that set out to colonize Florida in 1527. Under attack from Florida's Indians, Cabeza de Vaca and a number of other men sailed a makeshift barge westward, hoping to find a Spanish settlement in Mexico. Along the way, the men became the first Europeans to cross the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Cabeza de Vaca and eighty Spanish castaways landed on Galveston Island, along the Texas coast. For the next eight years, he and other survivors travelled overland, living with various Indian tribes, sometimes as slaves and at times as shamans (religious healers). Disease and conflict with Indians killed all but four of the travelers: Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo, Andres Dorantes, and Dorantes's slave, the first African to set foot in what is now the United States, a Moroccan Moor converted to