In 1527 a doomed expedition left Spain for Florida. Most of the 600 men were lost when the fleet was wrecked off Texas. Four men escaped; including Cabeza de Vaca; only to endure six years of captivity by Native Americans. In 1536 they arrived in Mexico City having escaped and walked at least 1;500 miles across North America. For years historians have debated the path that the men took; this book examines the accounts of the survivors and debates the value of each suggested route. Krieger's discussion; which was largely written in the 1950s and only now published; is full of extracts from primary sources. Much of the second half of the book comprises a complete English translation of the Account of the Disasters by Cabeza de Vaca himself.
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Review
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. In the MawBy Cheryl ClaassenSuper book. Every article has new information either about pilgrimages to caves; cave rituals; cave ritual specialists; offerings; use of interior space in caves; or relationships of caves to surface sites. I have read and reread several of the chapters and wish that every US archaeologist would read this book. Alan Sandstrom has written an excellent chapter detailing a cave pilgrimage his family participated in last decade. There is also attention given to the place of rockshelters in sacred landscape in several articles. Read this together with Stone Houses and Earth Lords and you'll never look at caves and rockshelter assemblages the same.
