Eugenio Lucas, “Death Reading from a Human Lectern, Congregation in Background” (c. 1850), black chalk and brown wash (courtesy Morgan Library & Museum, purchased by Pierpont Morgan) (all photos by ...

THE first edition of this work was published in 1849, in three volumes octavo, and it is hardly necessary for us to add, that it was received with very great favor both at home and abroad. Indeed, we ...

Balboa, Cabrillo, Columbus, Coronado, Cortez, De Leon, De Soto, De Vaca, Galvez, Mendez and Onate came by ship, walked and rode horseback all along the gulf coast and beyond creating old Spanish ...