Brandon writes and records stories about Texas and México.

3.04 - Apalache

3.04 - Apalache

Episode 4 - Alfred Russell, Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions Lost on the Shore of the Gulf of Mexico, 1528. The Granger Colle.jpg

How the Narváez expeditionaries "conquered" Apalache. And then had to flee for their lives. How they made it back to the Florida coast. And how they confronted the frightening reality that they had lost contact with their ships.

Pages: f11r-f16r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999). 

Cover art: "Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca," by Alfred Russell.

3.05 - The Gulf

3.05 - The Gulf

3.03 - A Land So Strange

3.03 - A Land So Strange