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books on: Vaca Cabeza De  - 462 results

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The Account: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's Relacion
Book by Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca, Martin A. Favata, José B. Fernández; Arte Publico Press, 1993
Subjects: America--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish, America--Early Accounts To 1600, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians Of North America--Southwestern States, Nauanez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar--16th Cent
...Vacas Relacion Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca An Annotated Translation by Martin...Cover design by Mark Pinon Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar. 16th cent. Relacion...paperback : $10.00 1. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent. 2. Explorers...
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
Book by Cyclone Covey, Alvar Cabeza de Vaca Nunez; University of New Mexico Press, 1983
Subjects: America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, America--Early accounts to 1600, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians of North America--Southwestern States, Narvaez, Panfilo de--d. 1528, Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar--16th cent, Southwestern States--Description and travel
...Sauer and Cleve Hallenbeck that Cabeza de Vaca and his companions had traveled...scholarship on the subject Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca: The Journey and Route of the...Dona Teresa, whose surname was Cabeza de Vaca, or Head of a Cow. This name originated...
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Conquistador in Chains: Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas
Book by David A. Howard; University of Alabama Press, 1997
Subjects: America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish, Explorers--America--Biography, Explorers--Spain--Biography, Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans, Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar--16th cent
...Chains Conquistador in Chains Cabeza de Vaca and the Indians of the Americas...A. Conquistador in chains : Cabeza de vaca and the Indians of the Americas...8 pbk.:alk. paper 1. Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, 16th cent. 2. Explorers...
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The Florida of the Inca: A History of the Adelantado, Hernando de Soto, Governor and Captain General of the Kingdom of Florida, and of Other Heroic Spanish and Indian Cavaliers
Book by John Grier Varner, Jeannette Johnson Varner, Garcilaso de la Vega; University of Texas Press, 1951
Subjects: Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542
...the year 1537. As Alvar NUnez Cabeza de Vaca, who accompanied him as Treasurer...captain and all of his men except Cabeza de Vaca himself, three other Spaniards...according to this same Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, who died in Valladolid after...
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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543 - Vol. 2
Book by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight Jr., Edward C. Moore; University of Alabama Press, 1995
Subjects: Indians Of North America--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources, Soto, Hernando De--Ca. 1500-1542, Southern States--Discovery And Exploration--Spanish--Sources, Spaniards--Southern States--History--16th Century--Sources
The De Soto Chronicles VOLUME II The De Soto Chronicles THE EXPEDITION OF HERNANDO The De Soto Chronicles DE SOTO TO NORTH AMERICA IN 1539-1543 EDITED BY LAWRENCE A. CLAYTON VERNON JAMES JR. KNIGHT EDWARD C. MOORE THE...
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journal articles on: Vaca Cabeza De  - 52 results

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Enriched by Otherness: The Transformational Journey of Cabeza De Vaca
Journal article by Mary Docter; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 58, 2008
Subjects: Biographies--Criticism and interpretation, Biography--Criticism and interpretation, Conquerors--Criticism and interpretation, Conquerors--Works, La relacion (Biography)--Criticism and interpretation, Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar--Criticism and interpretation, Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Alvar--Works
...The Transformational Journey of Cabeza De Vaca. by Mary Docter Alvar...expedition of Panfilo de Narvaez, Cabeza de Vaca found himself shipwrecked off the...North American continent on foot. Cabeza de Vaca survived by living among the Indians...
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The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
Journal article by Donald E. Chipman; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (Book)--Book reviews
The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca. by Donald E. Chipman The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca: Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Edited, translated...
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Filming the Conquest: Cabeza de Vaca and the Spectacle of History
Journal article by Krista Walter; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2002
Subjects: Christianity, History, Motion picture criticism
Filming the Conquest: Cabeza de Vaca and the Spectacle of History...Echevarrias award-winning film, entitled Cabeza de Vaca (Mexico, 1993), portrays the experiences...with the Relation of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (published in 1542), the writings...
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Going in Circles: Spanish American Identity and the Circular Motif in Nicolás Echevarría's Cabeza de Vaca
Journal article by Rudyard Alcocer; Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol. 36, 2008
Subjects: Hispanics, Identity, Ideology, Motion pictures
...Circular Motif in Nicolas Echevarrias Cabeza de Vaca by Rudyard Alcocer Perhaps...analysis of the circular motif in Cabeza de Vaca can help readers better understand...there have been numerous studies on Cabeza de Vaca over the past few years attests...
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Appetitive Backward Conditioning in Pigeons
Journal article by Nancy S. Hemmes, Bruce L. Brown, Soledad Cabeza De Vaca; The Psychological Record, Vol. 44, 1994
Subjects: Biofeedback training--Research, Operant conditioning--Research, Pigeons--Research
...Bruce L. Brown , Soledad Cabeza De Vaca The nature, reliability...behavioral assays (e.g., Brown, Hemmes, Cabeza de Vaca, Pagano, 1993; Hearst, 1987; Hemmes, Brown, Cabeza de Vaca, 1990; Matzel et al., 1988; Tait...
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magazine articles on: Vaca Cabeza De  - 9 results

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Truth & Fiction Chart a Miraculous Journey
Magazine article by Louis Werner; Americas (English Edition), Vol. 48, July 1996
Subjects: Cabeza de Vaca--Works, Explorers--Biography, New Spain--History, Southwestern States--Discovery, exploration, etc.
...better known by the improbable name Cabeza de Vaca, which had been given to a forbear...exploration of an uncharted arcadia, Cabeza de Vaca was as much shepherd as captain...of the story of Christ. That Cabeza de Vaca should die penniless and alone...
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A Long Walk in the New World: Of 300 Settlers Sent by Spain to Florida, Only Four Survived
Magazine article by Robert Wilson; American Scholar, Vol. 77, Winter 2008
Subjects: A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza De Vaca (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...SO STRANGE The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca By Andres Resendez Basic Books...coast. One of them, Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the royal treasurer for the trip...almost form a second narrative. Cabeza de Vaca was one of the 80 men reunited...
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Latin America Takes on Hollywood
Magazine article by Paul Lenti; NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 27, 1993
Subjects: Latin America, Latin America--Foreign Relations--United States, United States--Foreign Relations--Latin America
...1991 ) and Nicolas Echevarr a "Cabeza de Vaca" ( 1991 ), both also from Mexico...melodramas starring heart-throb Arturo de C rdova and Argentine singer-actress...Emilio "Indio" Fernandez, Fernando de Fuentes, Roberto Gavald n, Juan Bustillo...
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Once upon a Time in the West
Magazine article by Andrew Burstein; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Winter 2004
Subjects: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark (Book)
...expedition Calloway recounts is that of Cabeza de Vaca, who in 1528 washed ashore with the...an army in what is now east Texas. De Vaca owed his life to the Karankawa Indians...other gifts. The first Spaniards that de Vaca came across were slave hunters; since...
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A History of Native American and African Relations from 1502 to 1900
Magazine article by Arwin D. Smallwood; Negro History Bulletin, April 1999
Subjects: African Americans--History, Native Americans--History, Racially mixed people--United States
...Valdivia, Alarcon, Coronado, Narvaez, and Cabeza de Vaca, as they explored and conquered the...Tuscarora and held Baron Christopher De Graffenreid prisoner, but released...America and the Caribbean (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 1995). (8.) J. H. Galloway...
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newspaper articles on: Vaca Cabeza De  - 3 results

 
 
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Las Cataratas De Iguaz", Una Maravilla Natural
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 30, 2009
...conquistador espa+ or -ol Alvar N+ or -ez Cabeza de Vaca en 1542, las cataratas fueron declaradas Patrimonio Natural de la Humanidad por la Unesco en 1984...pasarelas permiten llegar mszs cerca de las deslumbrantes cadas de agua, como...
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Historian Fills Fascinating Gaps between Columbus, Pilgrims
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), May 3, 2009
...de Lon in Florida; Alvar N+ or -ez Cabeza de Vaca along the north coast of the Gulf of...through Texas; and Francisco Vszsquez de Coronado, who journeyed north out of...of persecuted Protestants at Rivire de Mai about 1564, between what is now...
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Two Held in Mexico Weapons Ring; ATF Cites Sales to Drug Dealers
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 25, 2005
Subjects: Drug dealers, Firearms
...one month after ATF Director Carl J. Truscott met with U.S. Ambassador Tony Garza and Mexican Attorney General Daniel Cabeza de Vaca pledged closer cooperation to curb firearms trafficking.


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encyclopedia articles on: Vaca Cabeza De  - 16 results

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Vaca, Cabeza De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VACA, CABEZA DE see Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Cabeza De Vaca, Álvar NÚÑez
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CABEZA DE VACA, ALVAR NUNEZ al var noo nyath kaba...ka, c.1490 c.1557, Spanish explorer. Cabeza de Vaca cows head was not actually a surname...Nunez. North American Adventures Cabeza de Vaca came to the New World as treasurer in...
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NÚÑez Cabeza De Vaca, Álvar
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
NUNEZ CABEZA DE VACA, ALVAR see Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Irala, Domingo MartÍnez De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1539, when he moved the inhabitants of Buenos Aires to Asuncion, until his death (with a short interruption when Cabeza de Vaca was governor), he ruled forcefully. Churches and public buildings were erected, towns were established, and the native...
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NarvÁez, PÁnfilo De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...turned back to the coast. There they built several crude vessels in which they set out for Mexico, but all except Cabeza de Vaca and three companions were lost off the coast of Texas or after landing among hostile Native Americans...
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