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