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A Voyage Long and Strange

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by Tony Horwitz


  22

  Viking longship, from the Bayeux Tapestry (by special permission of the City of Bayeux).

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  Courtesy of the Rooms Provincial Museum, Newfoundland. Original in the Beothuk Collection.

  52

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, Americae pars quarta, Frankfurt, 1594.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Historia general y natural de las Indias, Seville, 1535.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From André Thevet, La cosmographie universelle, Paris, 1575.

  64

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Lorenz Fries, Uselegun der Mer Carthen, Strasbourg, 1527.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Mundus novus, Antwerp, ca. 1507.

  86

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés, Historia general y natural de las Indias, Seville, 1535.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, Milicia y descripcion de las Indias, Madrid, 1599.

  119

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Juan de Tovar, Historia de la benida de los yndios, Mexico, ca. 1585.

  148

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, Brevissima relacion, Frankfurt, 1598.

  156

  Courtesy of Glasgow University Library, Department of Special Collections. From Diego Muñoz Carmargo, Descripción de la Ciudad y provincial de Tlaxcala, Mexico, ca. 1580.

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  Photograph by Ben Wittick. Courtesy Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, negative number 016054.

  181

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Francisco López de Gómara, Primera y segunda parte de la historia general de las Indias, Zaragoza, 1553.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Antonia de Herrera y Tordesillas, Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos, Madrid, 1601–15.

  235

  Courtesy of Georgia Department of Natural Resources.

  246

  Courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol. By William H. Powell, commissioned 1847, purchased 1855.

  263

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, America, Pt. 2, Frankfurt, 1591.

  269

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, America, Pt. 2, Frankfurt 1591.

  296

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Delle navigationi et viaggi, Venice, 1606.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, Grands Voyages, pt. 1, Frankfurt, 1590.

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  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From Theodor de Bry, Grands Voyages, pt. 1, Frankfurt, 1590.

  331

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, London, 1624.

  335

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From John Smith, The generall historie of Virginia, London, 1624.

  347

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. From John Smith The generall historie of Virginia, London, 1624.

  375

  Courtesy of John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Les voyages du sieur de Champlain, Paris, 1613.

  INDEX

  Entries in italics refer to illustrations.

  Aberdeen, Mississippi, 247

  Account (Cabeza de Vaca), 121, 125–26, 128–30

  Acoma Pueblo (Sky City), 167, 168–72, 174

  “Act to Preserve Racial Integrity” (Virginia, 1924), 351

  Adams, Bill, 282–83

  Adams, Henry, 340

  adobe brick, 153

  Adolfo “El Nazi” (Mexican guide), 136–37

  Advertisements for the unexperienced Planters of New-England, or anywhere (Smith), 368

  Africa

  humans migrate out of, 19

  route to Orient and, 52–54, 69

  African Americans

  brought as slaves to Americas, 61, 87–88, 98, 117

  Indians and, 315–16, 361–67

  Jamestown and, 364–66

  Mississippi Delta and, 249

  Plymouth and, 384 St. Augustine and, 280

  Southwest and, 148–49

  Agoyo, Herman, 173

  AIDS, 102–3

  Alabama, 231, 240–41

  Alabama River, 231, 240

  Alarcón, Hernando de, 159–61

  Alberta, Canada, 39

  Albuquerque, New Mexico, 166, 175

  Alcalde, New Mexico, 167, 171–73

  Algonquian Indians, 316, 334, 337, 361, 386

  Alligator River, 305, 312

  Amadis de Gaula, 118–19

  Amazons, 77–78, 78

  America. See also specific sites and towns

  Columbus and, 46, 50–51

  desire to learn pre-Mayflower, history of, 3–7

  founding of, and of myth vs. history, 387–90

  named after Vespucci, 79

  American Historical Association, 178

  American Indian Movement, 211

  America Not Discovered by Columbus, 15

  Anacaona, 97–98

  Anastasia Island, 287

  Anderson, Job, 18–19

  Anglo, markings on El Morro, 167–68

  Anglo-American Protestants,, 6

  Indians and, 147–49

  Spanish in Southwest and, 178

  Angola, Maryland, 364

  Anhaica, 213–15, 216

  anthropologists, 153

  Antietam, Battle of, 239

  Antilles, 132

  Apache Pass, 146

  Apaches, 151, 158, 161

  Apalachee Indians, 123, 208, 213–15, 262

  Appalachian Mountains, 5, 215, 227, 231

  apples, 230

  archaeology

  Anhaica site in Tallahassee, 213–15

  Cofitachequi and, 223–25

  Concepción de la Vega in Dominican Republic and, 104–5

  De Soto and, in Bradenton, 212–13

  De Soto’s route in Southeast and, 220–21

  Etowah and, 233–35

  Floydada and Blanco Canyon and, 185–86

  Jamestown and, 341–43

  La Isabela and, 110

  Mavila and, 241

  Norse graves and, 44–45

  Norse site at L’Anse, 22–23, 30–31

  St. Augustine and, 285

  Zuni at Hawikuh and, 155–58

  Argall, Samuel, 343–44

  Arizona

  Alarcón and, 159–61

  Coronado and, 137–59, 141

  Arkansas, 248, 253–58

  Arkansas City, 248, 258–60

  Armada, Capitán General de la, 68

  arrowheads, 157

  Asia, 19, 50–51, 78, 154

  Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, 340

  Atahualpa, 120, 199, 222, 237

  Athens, Georgia, 218–19

  Atkins, Ken, 235

  Augusta, Georgia, 216

  Austin, Stephen, 148

  Azores, 66–67, 297

  Aztec, 6, 117–19, 119, 157

  Bad Land (El Mal País), 166

  Bahamas, 56, 58–59, 67–68

  Bailey, James, 365–66

  Balaguer, Joaquín, 80

  Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 117

  Bangor, Maine, 4

  barbecue, 88

  Barlowe, Arthur, 298

  baseball, 389–90

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sp; Basque fishermen, 33, 372

  Bay D’Espoir, 35

  Bayeux Tapestry, 22

  Bayou Boggy, Arkansas, 258

  Beak Point, Newfoundland, 27–28

  beans, 146, 230, 317

  Beaufort, South Carolina, 267, 274

  beaver, 33, 36

  33–37, 34, 44

  Berkeley Plantation, 387

  Beverley, Robert, 356

  Bierce, Ambrose, 95

  blackflies, 33

  black legend (a leyenda negra), 148–49, 148, 179

  Blanco Canyon, 183, 185–86

  Block Island, 388

  Blue Ridge Mountains, 227

  Bohio Island, 63

  Bolling, Jane Rolfe, 350

  Bolling, Robert, 350

  Bolton, Herbert, 176, 178–79

  Book of Mormon, 233

  Book of Prophecies, The (Columbus),51

  “Borderlands Festival,” 140

  Bornfriend, Carl, 321–23

  Boston, Massachusetts, 376

  Bowman, Richard, 363–67

  Bradenton, Florida, 200–201, 209–12, 216

  Bradford, William, 1, 6, 367, 374–75, 377

  Brazil, 129

  Brewster, William, 329

  Brown Man, 30

  buffalo, 6, 43, 150, 165, 180, 181, 186, 188–90, 192, 255

  Burke, Tim, 201–6, 260

  Burroughs, William, 196

  butternut, 32

  caballeros, 118

  Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez, 121–31, 122–23, 133, 137–38, 160, 200, 255

  Cabot, John, 294, 295

  Cacique, 69

  Cahokia mounds, 233

  Calafia, queen of Amazons, 388

  Calderon’s Company, 200–206

  California, 5, 327, 388

  Calusa Indians, 205

  Calvin, John, 266

  Calvinism, 270, 276, 291, 379–80

  Camden, South Carolina, 216

  Camilo, Bishop Antonio, 104

  Canada, 23–24, 37, 39

  Canary Islands, 54–55, 61, 121

  Canibales (Caribs), 70

  cannibalism, 63–64, 64, 66, 267–68, 294

  Canoabo (artist), 95–96, 99–114

  Canoabo (Indian cacique), 69, 96–98

  canoes, 59, 60, 88

  Cape Cod, 1, 372, 373, 374, 380

  Cape Verde, 384

  caravels, 52–54

  Caribbean, 4, 69

  Carib Indians, 64–66, 70, 85, 86

  caribou, 33

  Carlos II, King of Spain, 288

  Carolinas, 4

  Caroline Fort, La, 268–81, 291, 294–95

  National Memorial, 271–72, 274, 276–78

  Cartier, Jacques, 17

  cassava, 88

  Castañeda, Pedro de, 197–98

  Castro, Fidel, 68

  Catawba Indians, 225–27

  catfish, 247

  Catholic Church, 48, 51, 68, 86–87, 117–19, 124, 127, 148, 154, 160, 163, 171, 175–76, 193, 266, 275–81, 286–87, 289, 291–92

  centipede, giant, 142

  Central America, 76

  Cervantes, Miguel de, 199

  Champlain, Samuel de, 375, 375

  Charles City County, Virginia, 363, 365

  Charles I, King of Spain, 118

  Charles II, King of England, 356

  Charles River, 376

  Charlotte, North Carolina, 216

  Cheatham, Richard, 349

  Cherokee Indians, 232

  Chesapeake Bay, 280, 302–3, 305, 310, 320, 328, 332, 333

  Chesapeake Indians, 310, 325

  Chesnut, Mary, 225–26

  Chicasa, 244

  Chichilticale, 141, 142–43, 146

  Chickahominy Indians, 363–64, 367

  Chief Coosa Welcomes De Soto to Childersburg (mural), 247

  Childersburg, Alabama, 231, 247

  China, 63, 83

  chivo guisado (fricasse kid), 75

  Choctaw Indians, 262

  cholla, 142

  Christianity. See also Calvinism; Catholic Church; Huguenots; Protestants; Puritans

  Apalachee Indians and, 214–15

  Micmac and, 35–37

  Norse and, 15, 22, 25

  Cibao, 64, 70, 97, 102, 103–5, 111–12

  Cibola, 131–33, 141, 143–46, 149–58, 156, 160, 191. See also Zuni

  Cicuique pueblo (Pecos Pueblo), 165–66, 167

  Cimarron National Grassland, 183, 187–88

  civil rights movement, 366

  Civil War, 175, 218, 221, 225–26, 239, 249, 304, 340, 381

  Clifton, Arizona, 141, 146–47, 149

  Cochise County, Arizona, 142–43

  cocido (salt pork and garbanzo bean stew), 290

  cod fishery, 23–24, 28, 30

  Cofitachequi, 216, 221–27, 240

  cohoba (hallucinogenic powder), 85

  Colbourne, Clayton, 27–29

  Cole’s Hill, 376–77, 382, 385

  Coligny, Gaspard de, 266–68

  Collapse (Diamond), 45

  Colonial Spanish Quarter museum, 282–83

  Colorado River, 159

  Columbia, South Carolina, 216

  Columbus, Diego (brother), 70

  Columbus, Diego (son), 81, 82, 84

  Columbus, Ferdinand (son), 48–49, 77

  Columbus Day, 48, 67, 226

  Dominican Republic and, 84–85, 88–94

  Columbus (Don Cristóbal Colón), 3–5, 7, 9, 47–71, 52, 56–57, 60, 64, 75–81, 86, 96–97, 103–7, 109–13, 117, 120, 285, 286

  bones of, 80–85, 89–94

  death of, 76–77

  jinx, in Dominican Republic, 80

  journals of, 49, 54–55, 66–67, 87

  Concepción de la Vega, Dominican

  Republic, 102, 104–6, 109

  Concord (ship), 372–73

  Conne River, Newfoundland, 32, 35–37

  conquistador reenactors, 200–206

  Constantinople, 52

  Continental Divide, 166

  conversos (converted Jews), 54

  Cook, Pocahontas, 357

  Cook, Warren, 356–61

  Cooperstown, New York, 389–90

  Coosa, 230–36, 231, 240, 247

  copper, 149, 234

  Copper Era, The (newspaper), 146

  Corazones, Valley of Los, 137

  Corley, Lyn, 275–78, 286–89

  Corley, Ted, 277–78

  Cormack, W. E., 34–35

  Cornelius, Rev. Elias, 232

  corn (maize), 88, 146, 191, 230, 233, 290, 317, 337, 381

  cornmeal lines, 154

  Coronado, Father (present-day priest), 137

  Coronado, Francisco Vásquez de, 121, 134–51, 155–60, 163, 165–66, 168, 176–98

  present-day memories of, 146–49, 153

  route of, 141, 167, 166–68, 183

  Coronado Heights, Kansas, 183, 193–96

  Coronado: Knight of Pueblos and Plains (Boldon), 176

  Coronado National Memorial, 139–42, 141

  Coronado Peak, 140

  Coronado Pit (copper mine), 149

  Coronado Scenic Trail (Devil’s Highway), 150–51

  Coronado State Monument, New Mexico, 167, 175–76

  Coronado Trail, 146–47, 151

  Cortés, Hernán, 117–20, 133, 199

  Costa Rica, 113

  Cotten, Sallie Southall, 314

  Counterblaste to Tobacco, A (King James), 319

  Cow Ford, 276

  cows, 68

  “Creations Myths of Cooperstown, The” (Gould), 389

  Cree Indians, 39

  Creek Indians, 215, 236, 262, 353

  Croatoan (Hatteras Island), 303, 305, 309–12, 321–25

  Croatoan Indians, 311–12, 315

  Cuba, 56, 62–65, 68, 70, 81–82, 117, 209, 287

  Cuetera, Dan, 378–80

  Cumberland Gap, 135

  Cuneo, Michele de, 69

  Cushing, Frank Hamilton, 153–54


  Custalow, Gertrude, 363

  Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts, 6–7, 372, 373

  Damp, Jonathan, 155–58

  Daniel, Burl, 185

  Daniels, Marty, 223–27

  Dare, Ananias, 303

  Dare, Elenor White, 303–4

  Dare, Virginia, 21, 303–4, 306–7, 313–14, 319, 322

  Daytona Beach, Florida, 120

  “Day of Mourning,” 382

  Deaf Smith County, Texas, 182–84

  Decker, George, 29

  Decker, Lloyd, 29–30

  Decker, Loretta, 29–30, 32

  Decker, Madge, 29–30

  Declaration of Independence, 365

  deer and venison, 290, 360, 381

  Degree of Pocahontas, 351–54

  Delaware, 332

  De La Warr, Lord, 343

  Dermer, Thomas, 374

  Descendants of Ancient Planters, 366

  De Soto, Georgia, 216, 218

  De Soto, Hernando, 121, 198, 199–201, 203–4, 206–28, 207, 237–40, 242–60, 297, 336

  “coffin” of, 258–59

  Discovery of the Mississippi painting of, 245–46, 246, 262

  encampment, archaeological excavation of, 213–15

  Etowah and, 233–34

  reenactment, 211

  route of, 216, 219–21, 229–45, 231, 248

  De Soto Celebration, later Florida Heritage Festival, 211

  De Soto Chronicles, The, 219–20, 241–43, 254–55, 260

  DeSoto County, Mississippi, 247

  De Soto Historical Society, 200

  parade, 209–11

  De Soto National Memorial, 200

  De Soto Trail, 220–21

  Diamond, Jared, 45

  Dias, Bartholomew, 53

  Discovery of the Mississippi (painting), 245–46, 246, 262

  Disney World and Epcot Center, 283

  Dodge City, 183

  Dominica, 69

  Dominican Republic, 56, 69, 72–114, 102

  Taino Indians in, 85–88, 95–96

  Donne, John, 293

  Dorantes, Andrés, 130

  Doubleday, Abner, 389–90

  Dowa Yalanne (Corn Mountain), 157–58

  Drake, Sir Francis, 302, 324, 327, 368

  Drayton, Michael, 326

  Dredge Spoil Island, Florida, 271

  drought, 325, 342

  duck, 360

  Dust Bowl, 186–87, 190

  Dvorák, Antonín, 47

  Dye, Sandra, 351–53

  Eager, Arizona, 141, 151

  Earth, shape of, and Columbus, 50–51

  Earth, Texas, 183, 184

 

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