Castaways

Episode 8 of Brandon Seale's podcast on Álvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca.How Cabeza de Vaca and his companions were reunited with some of their fellow Narváez expeditionaries, including Alonso Castillo, Andrés Dorantes, and Estevan. How they tried to integrate themselves into the daily rhythms of the Cavoque community. And what happened that first winter when Native American and European immune systems were compromised by hunger, cold, and exposure to diseases they had never met before.Pages: f23r-f26r in Zamora (1542) Edition as published by Adorno and Pautz (1999).Cover art: "Expedition Cabeza de Vaca Karte," Wikicommons, Public Domain.Selected BibliographyAdorno, Rolena and Patrick Charles Pautz. Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1999)Boyd Carolyn. Rock Art of the Lower Pecos (2013)Krieger, Alex. We Came Naked and Barefoot (2002)Reséndez, Andrés. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca (2007)Stockdale, James Bond. “Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory of Human Behavior” (1993)“Through the Eyes of the Explorer: Cabeza de Vaca on the South Texas Plains.” TexasBeyondHistory.Net (viewed July 6, 2020)Wittliff Collections (Texas State University) exhibition on Cabeza de Vaca (including a digitized copy of an original 1555 edition of La Relación) www.BrandonSeale.com