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Ep. 31: Cabeza de Vaca’s Fantastic Journey

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The American West

In this new podcast, writer Dan Flores presents a big picture history of an American West you've never encountered. With the West's deep time, its gra 
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Almost exactly 500 years ago, a shipwrecked Spaniard named Cabeza de Vaca and three companions made the first trans-continental journey in the history of the American West. Then he wrote down his account of eight years in Native America, one of the great First Contact stories of all time.

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