BIOGRAPHY

Bishop, Morris. The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca. New York: The Century Co., 1933, 306 p.

Biographical study of the life of Cabeza de Vaca, giving equal attention to his expeditions in North and South America.

CRITICISM

Bandelier, Ad. F. Introduction to The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. Fanny Badelier, ed. Ad. F. Bandelier, pp. v-xxii. New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1905.

Examines details of Cabeza de Vaca's travels in North America as depicted in his two major works and includes notes on translations of his North American narrative.

Bannon, John Francis. Introduction to The Narrative of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, trans. Fanny Badelier, pp. xi-xxxi. Barre, Mass.: The Imprint Society, Inc., 1972.

Overview of Cabeza de Vaca's life and adventures, noting him as one of the first white men to see the interior of the North American continent.

Chipman, Donald E. “In Search of Cabeza de Vaca's Route across Texas: An Historiographical Survey.” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 91, No. 2 (October 1987): 127-48.

Compares competing theories about Cabeza de Vaca's possible route through what would become the state of Texas. Chipman also offers details of the explorer's descriptions of geography, plants, and animals.

Doolittle, William E. “Cabeza de Vaca's Land of Maize: An Assessment of Its Agriculture.” Journal of Historical Geography 10, No. 3 (1984): 246-62.

Uses the writings of Cabeza de Vaca, subsequent sixteenth-century Spanish explorers, and archaeological evidence to show that eastern Sonora, Mexico, was one of the most advanced agricultural regions of the North American desert.

Hallenbeck, Cleve. Preface to Álvar Núñez Cabeza De Vaca: The journey and route of the first European to cross the continent of North America, 1534-1536, pp. 13-29. Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company, 1940.

Discusses Cabeza de Vaca's route through North America and the consequent realization that the continent was much broader than the Spanish had believed.

Hodge, Frederick W. “Introduction to the Narrative of Alvar Nuñez Cabeça de Vaca.” In Spanish Explorers in the Southern United States, 1528-1543, pp. 3-11. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1959.

Provides introductory notes on the disastrous expedition that nevertheless inspired the subsequent explorations of Coronado and De Soto.

Long, Haniel. “Note I.” In The Power Within Us: Cabeza de Vaca's Relation of his Journey from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, pp. 7-9. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1944.

Imagines what Cabeza de Vaca might have written about his years in North America had he not had feared his king's wrath for his disastrous expedition.

Wojciechowska, Maia. Odyssey of Courage: The Story of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. New York: Atheneum, 1965, 182 p.

Fictionalized recounting of Cabeza de Vaca's travels.