Esteban and the Prelude to the Coronado Expedition

This episode welcomes back our old friend from the Cabeza de Vaca saga, Esteban, and the advance scouting work he led, with a drunken friar, for the Coronado expedition into the American southwest. #VastEarlyAmerica Selected references for this episode Robert Goodwin, Crossing the Continent 1527-1540: The Story of the First African-American Explorer of the American South Stan Hoig, Came Men on Horses: The Conquistador Expeditions of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado and Don Juan de Oñate Andrés Reséndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca George Parker Winship, The Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542 Bartolomé de las Casas