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La Relación - page 13

reasons he said the Governor should go along the coast until he arrived at the harbor, and that the other ships with the other people should go the same route until they arrived at the same harbor.

Everyone there thought it fitting to do this,…

La Relación - page 14

he and the others risked and to endure what he and the others would endure rather than to take charge of the ships and give anyone cause to say that I was staying out of fear, since I was opposed to entering, and thus have my honor doubted, for I…

From the 1929 edition of La Relación, published by Grabhorn Press, San Francisco.

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

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.

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

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