2018年5月23日 · Alvar N ú ñ ez Cabeza de Vaca, Castaways: The Narrative of Alvar N ú ñ ez Cabeza de Vaca, edited by Enrique Pupo-Walker, translated by Frances M. L ó pez-Morillas (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993); David J. Weber, The Spanish Frontier in North America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992).

Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (c. 1490–1564) Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (b. ca. 1490; d. 1564), Spanish explorer, conquistador, and author. Cabeza de Vaca was most likely born in Jerez de la Frontera, Andalusia. He was treasurer and marshal of Pánfilo de Narváez's expedition to Florida (1527–1537) and was appointed governor of the Río ...

Cabeza de Vaca (1991) is a film directed by Nicolás Echevarría, featuring Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, and Roberto Sosa. The screenplay is loosely based on Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition. The film depicts Cabeza de Vaca living among the Iguase Indians, emphasizing his mental state and the changes he ...

Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez. 3 vols. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1999. Hallenbeck, Cleve. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Journey and Route of the First European to Cross the Continent of North America, 1534–1536. Glendale, Calif.: Clark, 1940. Hickerson, Nancy Parrott.

2018年5月23日 · The famous survivor of the Narváez expedition, Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, arrived at the viceregal court with stories he had heard of seven great cities in "Cíbola," far to the north. Mendoza, anxious to locate and conquer this reputedly golden land, dispatched Father Marcos de Niza and Cabeza de Vaca's companion Estevánico north. When ...

Cabeza de Vaca: see Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez. Source for information on Vaca, Cabeza de: The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.

Esteban (?–1539)Esteban (Estevan; d. May 1539), guide and explorer of New Spain. Esteban, a black Arab from the Atlantic coast of Morocco, traveled across Florida, Texas, and northern Mexico from 1527 until 1536 with his owner and Andrés Dorantes, Alvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, and Castillo Maldonado, all fellow survivors of Pánfilo de Narváez's ill-fated expedition to Florida.

Discovered in 1541 by the Spanish governor, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, the falls are made up of 275 waterfalls that range from 130 to 230 feet in height. The Iguazú National Park (Argentina) and the Iguaçu National Park (Brazil) were declared World Heritage Centers by UNESCO in 1984 and 1986, respectively.

Morris Bishop, The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca (1933). Robert S. Weddle, Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North American Discovery, 1500–1685 (1985), esp. pp. 27-33, 116-119, 185-207. Additional Bibliography. Adorno, Rolena, and Patrick Charles Pautz. Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de ...

2018年5月23日 · The reports of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and three companions, who walked from the Texas coast to Culiacán in 1536, raised hopes in Mexico of fabulous riches to the north. Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza prepared the expedition of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado to investigate. However, in 1539 he dispatched Marcos de Niza with Estabanico (who ...