Brandon writes and records stories about Texas and México.

3.18 - The First American Ponzi Scheme

3.18 - The First American Ponzi Scheme

Brandon Seale
Episode 18 - José Cisneros, Cabeza de Vaca and His Three companions on the Texas Coast. Museum of South Texas History. Image available on the Internet..jpg

How Estevan prepared the way for his companions as they crossed the Rio Grande. How to interpret the agendas of the "headmen" leading the natives now surrounding the four expeditionaries. How the expeditionaries realized they were still, despite their following, as vulnerable as they had been back on the Galveston beach.
 
Pages: f41v-f46v in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).

Cover art: Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions in the Big Bend area. Texas Beyond History. Image available on the Internet, viewed on 12 May 2020.

3.19 - The Inexplicable Turn

3.19 - The Inexplicable Turn
3.17 - Mala Cosa

3.17 - Mala Cosa