Most Reluctant Tourist After seven years marooned, lost and enslaved, the last job Cabeza de Vaca wanted was hunting gold in Colorado From: The Gazette | Date: October 31, 1999| Author: Jay Fell | Copyright 1999 The Gazette. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca never came to Colorado. He never wanted to come to Colorado. But perhaps no one is more responsible for drawing Spanish and Western civilization into the Southwest and into Colorado.

Cabeza de Vaca's odyssey began in 1527 when he arrived in Cuba to become second-in-command of an expedition heading north to colonize the west coast of Florida. This expedition, however, did not work out. Bad planning, disputes and a hurricane disrupted the process, and as a resu...

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