USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cabeza de Vaca’s eight-year journey (1528-1536) was chronicled in the self-penned Relacion (The Account) first published in 1542 in Zamora, Spain. A second edition was published in Valladolid in 1555.

Detailed explanation-2: -Cabeza de Vaca and his companions eventually arrived in Mexico City in 1536. They had traveled nearly 2, 400 miles over eight years in Texas and the Mexican borderlands. In 1542, he published an account of his adventures, the Relación, the first literary work with Texas as its subject.

Detailed explanation-3: -Written after 1537 and published in 1542, Cabeza de Vaca’s account became known as Naufragios [Shipwrecked]. The work documents the author’s experiences and travails among the Native American nations and is considered a classic of early colonial narrative.

Detailed explanation-4: -The path for Cabeza de Vaca in becoming a defender of Indians is almost as remarkable as his adventures in Texas. He detailed the latter in his Relación (Account), first published in Spain in 1542 and reprinted in an expanded edition in 1555.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Spanish conquistador Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca is shipwrecked on a low sandy island off the coast of Texas. Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.