“Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: American Trailblazer” by Robin Varnum

The first lines of a book are usually a clue as to how good the rest of the book will be. Robin Varnum starts out her preface to the biography of the Spanish explorer with a bang: “I cannot claim that recorded U.S. history begins with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, but it very nearly does...”  By Robin Martin.
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