Brandon writes and records stories about Texas and México.

3.21 - The Arrowhead

3.21 - The Arrowhead

Brandon Seale
Episode 21 - The First Recorded Surgical Operation in North America_ Cabeza de Vaca. 1535, 1965. Chinese ink painting. 20 X 28. (Tom Lea Institute).jpg

How Cabeza de Vaca removed an arrowhead from the beating heart of an ailing native. How the four expeditionaries' "authority" continued to grow. How the expeditionaries abused that authority. And how they came to repent of it.

Pages: f49v-f52r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).

Cover Art: "The First Recorded Surgical Operation in North America," 1965. By Tom Lea, Courtesy of the Tom Lea Institute., El Paso, Texas. All Rights Reserved.

3.22 - Crossing the Divide

3.22 - Crossing the Divide
3.20 - All Things to All People

3.20 - All Things to All People