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A Brief History of Cabeza de Vaca and La Relación

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Photograph of Cabeza de Vaca's monumnet in Jerez de la Frontera by José Luis Jiménez.

Courtesy of José Luis Jiménez.

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Cabeza de Vaca, Castillo, Esteban, and Dorantes meet the Spanish slave hunters. By Barbara Whitehead. Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos.

Cabeza de Vaca and a handful of other survivors wash ashore on what would later be known as Galveston Island. By Barbara Whitehead. Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos.

Cabeza de Vaca Performing the First Recorded Surgical Operation on the North American Continent by Tom Lea. Courtesy of the Moody Medical Library, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

Cabeza de Vaca in the Desert by Frederic Remington, 1905. First appeared in Collier's Weekly (October 14, 1905). Courtesy Frederic Remington Art Museum, Ogdensburg, NY

Cabeza de Vaca depicted as a healer on a mural in the town hall at Ojinaga, in Chihuahua, Mexico. It commemorates his stay at the junction of the rivers in the summer of 1535. From Conquistadors by Michael Wood. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

Carved polychrome wood panel by David Everett depicting Cabeza de Vaca. Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University-San Marcos.

From DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca by Ted DeGrazia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

From DeGrazia Paints Cabeza de Vaca by Ted DeGrazia. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1973. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.

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