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3. Era of Exploration
Barclay, Donald A., and others. Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994. (Contents relevant to Texas include excerpts from the narrative of Cabeza de Vaca on his journey across much of Texas in the 1520s and '30s, that of a member of de Soto's expedition into parts of eastern and northern Texas (1539 and beyond), that of a member of Coronado's expedition across northwestern Texas in 1540, that of Gaspar Castaño de Sosa from western Texas into New Mexico (1590), and that of the Alarcón expedition to Texas in 1718.) CYP, RVS: F 592 .I68 1994.
Chapa, Juan Bautista. Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690. Edited by William C. Foster. Translated by Ned f. Brierley. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. PIN: F 1316 .C4613 1997
Cortés, José. Views from the Apache Frontier: Report on the Northern Provinces of New Spain. Edited by Elizabeth A. H. John. Translated by John Wheat. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989. (Author was a lieutenant of the Spanish Royal Corps of Engineers. Written in 1799. Best on Arizona and California, poorest on Texas.[See editor's introduction for explanation why.]) PIN, RGC: E 99 .A6 C6413 1989
Joutel, Henri. A Journal of LaSalle's Last Voyage. New York: Corinth Books, 1962. EVC, PIN, RVS: F 1030.5 .J863 1962
Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar. The Account: Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion. Translated by Martin A. Favto and Jose B. Fernandez. Houston, Tex.: Arte Publico Press, 1993. PIN: E 125 .N9 A3 1993b
Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1990. (Reprint of 1907 edition. Contains the narrative of Cabeza de Vaca and narratives relating to the expeditions of De Soto and Coronado.) RGC: E 123 .S75 1990
Weddle, Robert S., ed. La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1987. RGC: F 352 .L344 1987
Winship, George Parker, transl. & ed. The Journey of Coronado,
1540-1542. Golden Col.: Fulcrum Publishing, 1990. (Several
documents written by participants in the expedition, including
Coronado.) RGC: E 125 .V3 C69 1990