This episode details the entradas of Juan Ponce de León, Pánfilo de Narváez,  Hernando de Soto, Tristán de Luna y Arellano, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés,  Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Castaño de Sosa, Antonio Gutiérrez de Humana and Francisco Leyva de Bonilla, Juan de Oñate, Cabeza de Vaca, Esteban de Dorantes, and more.  The episode concludes with the creation of two backwater colonial outposts, Santa Fe and St. Augustine - and a North American apocalypse.


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Sources
Latin American Civilization
One Vast Winter Count
Europe and the People without History
The Spanish Borderlands Frontier
The History of Latin America
The Martyrs of Florida
Imperial Spain's Failure to Colonize Southeast North America
Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe
Empires of the Atlantic World
The Last Conquistador
The Spanish Frontier in North America
Narrative of the Coronado Expedition
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
The Southern Voyages
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
Frontiers: A Short History of the American West

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