@historybytheslice: In 1528 Pánfilo de Narváez landed roughly 300 men in Florida and marched inland after gold, ordering his ships to meet him further up the coast. They never did. The stranded army melted their weapons into tools and built rafts from horsehide. Most died. Four men survived — including Estevanico, an enslaved North African — and spent eight years crossing the Gulf coast and the Southwest, living among Indigenous nations as captives, traders and healers. Follow for the history that got left out. 🏜️ #cabezadevaca #floridahistory #spanishhistory #USHistory #History Scholarly source Rolena Adorno & Patrick Charles Pautz, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: His Account, His Life, and the Expedition of Pánfilo de Narváez, 3 vols. (University of Nebraska Press, 1999).

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