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Handbook of Texas Online: CABEZA DE VACA, ALVAR NUNEZ - English
URL: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/print/CC/fca6.html

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, an early Spanish explorer, was born about 1490 in Jerez de la Frontera, an Andalucian town near Cádiz, to Francisco de Vera and Teresa Cabeza de Vaca. Cabeza de Vaca was his preferred surname. It descended from an ancestor who had helped secure victory for Christian forces at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212) by marking an unguarded pass in the Sierra Moreno with the skull of a cow. In gratitude, King Sancho of Navarra bestowed the surname "Cow's Head" on Cabeza de Vaca's matrilineal progenitors.

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Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez on Encyclopedia.com - English
URL: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/C/Cabezade.asp

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North American Adventures, South American Career.

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Abel Posse/Cabeza de Vaca - Spanish
URL: http://www.literatura.org/Posse/CabezadeVaca.html

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Se sabe poco porque sus libros eran para la Corte y el peligroso mundo de aquella España grande y terrible. Por elegancia natural o por una extraña pasión subversiva, se separó del tipo humano del "Conquistador".

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Texas Explorers - Cabeza de Vaca - English
URL: http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Projects/cabeza.html

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - English
URL: http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/vaca.htm

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Works Available Online: Cabeza de Vaca's account of his journey. Adventures into the Unknown Interior of America (1542) at Eldritch Press.

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca - English
URL: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03126c.htm

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Alvar Nuñez joined the expedition of Pámfilo de Narvaez to Florida in 1526 as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland. For eight years they roamed along the coasts of Louisiana and Texas under the greatest of hardships, their position among the Indians being wellnigh intolerable.

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PBS - THE WEST - Alvar Nuсez Cabeza de Vaca - English
URL: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/cabezadevaca.htm

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The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca remains one of the most amazing feats of exploration in the Americas. Cabeza de Vaca was born into the Spanish nobility in 1490. Little of his early life is known, except that he made his career in the military. In early 1527 he left Spain as a part of a royal expedition intended to occupy the mainland of North America.

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Cabeza de Vaca, 16th Century Explorer - Spanish Trails in North America - English
URL: http://vaca.com/cabeza.html

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Cabeza de Vaca was the first European to describe America from Florida through Arizona. His writings are the oldest written history we have of Native Americans. He set the stage for the Conquest of this continent. This Site describes Cabeza de Vaca's eight year journey based on his own writings.

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Cabeza de Vaca, Álvar Núñez - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0809721.html

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North American Adventures. South American Career.

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Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com - English
URL: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/d/devaca.shtml

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Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] (1490?-1557?) was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.

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