This compilation of historical documents includes letters, reports, and accounts written by Europeans during the colonization of Southwest Florida, offering ins

This volume presents new data and interpretations from research at Florida’s Spanish missions, outposts established in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

This is the first book-length study to use Spanish language sources in documenting the original Indian inhabitants of West Florida who, from the late 16th centu

Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (1519–1574) founded St. Augustine in 1565. His expedition was documented by his brother-in-law, Gonzalo Solís de Merás, who left

"Offering innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Florida's past, this volume updates current archaeological i