This compilation of historical documents includes letters, reports, and accounts written by Europeans during the colonization of Southwest Florida, offering ins
This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, outposts established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left
"From the 1600s through the 1800s, Spanish missionaries came to America to convert Native Americans. [The author] provides in-depth information on their efforts