Every Florida Book Project
the Spanish Colonial Era
primary sources
Chronicle of the Navarez Expedition
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
The Martyrs of Florida (1513-1616)
Issue 18 of Franciscan Studies
by Luis Jerónimo de Oré
Translated by Maynard J. Geiger
Published 1937
An Early Florida Adventure Story
by Fray Andres de San Miguel
translated by John H. Hann
A 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida and finally back to Spain.
secondary sources
Hernando de Soto and the Indians of Florida
Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597
J. Michael Francis & Kathleen M. Kole
War on the Gulf Coast: The Spanish Fight against William Augustus Bowles
Gilbert C. Din
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord:
Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians
Jerald T Milanich
The Spanish Frontier in North America: The Brief Edition
David J. Weber
Historical Memoir of the War in West Florida and Louisiana in 1814-15, with an Atlas
The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menendez de Aviles and the Spanish Conquest of 1565-1568
Eugene Lyon