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135 Andrew Wiget
from Reading Against the Grain: Origin Stories and American
135 Literacy History
136 Annette Kolodny
136 from Letting Go Our Grand Obsessions: Notes Toward a New
Literary History of the American Frontiers
136 Mary Louise Pratt
136 from Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation
Paul Gilroy
137 from The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
138 Paula M. L. Moya and Ramon Saldivar
138 from Fictions of the Trans-American Imaginary
Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1490?-1556?)
141 from Relation of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
141 Prologue
142 from Chapter VII, The Character of the Country
143 from Chapter VIII, We Go from Aute
145 from Chapter X, The Assault from the Indians
145 from Chapter XI, Of What Befel Lope de Oviedo with the Indians
146 from Chapter XXI, Our Cure of Some of the Afflicted
147 from Chapter XXIV, Customs of the Indians of That Country
148 from Chapter XXVII, We Moved Away and Were Well Received
149 from Chapter XXXII, The Indians Give Us the Hearts of Deer
150 from Chapter XXXIII, We See Traces of Christians
151 from Chapter XXXIV, Of Sending for the Christians
152 Fray Marcos de Niza ( 1495?-1542)
153 from A Relation of the Reverend Father Fray Marcos de Niza, Touching
His Discovery of the Kingdom of Ceuola or Cibola . . .
Pedro de Casteñeda ( 1520?-1570?)
from The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado
Chapter XXI, Of how the army returned to Tiguex
and the general reached Quivira
159 Gaspar Perez de Villagra ( 1555-1620)
160 from The History of New Mexico
160 from Canto I, Which sets forth the outline of the history
162 Canto XIV, How the River of the North was discovered
and the trials that were borne in discovering it. . . .
Canto XXX, How the new General . . . went to take leave
of Luzcoija, and the battle he had with the Spaniards