One of the first Europeans to penetrate the interior of Texas, read Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca's account of his shipwreck and eventual return to the Spanish Court.

A chronological timeline of early European exploration and development in Texas spanning from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

An account of the Spanish expedition led by Alonso Alvarez de Pineda in 1519 that explored the Gulf of Mexico between Florida and Cabo Rojo, Mexico. The explorers tried to establish the Panuco colony but were unsuccessful.

Father Damian Massanet's first-hand account of Spain's first occupation of East Texas in the year 1690.