Explores in Texas

He sailed from Spanish Cuba to the eastern coast of Mexico and conquered the Aztecs by becoming allies with neighboring Native Americans and taking Moctezuma II prisoner.

• Hernando Cortez
• Alonzo Alvarez De Pineda

• Francisco Coronado

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

He sailed from Jamaica to the Gulf of Mexico to explore the land between Florida and Mexico. He tried to establish a colony, but the entire settlement was killed by Native Americans. First European to Map the Texas Coast

• Alonzo Alvarez De Pineda
• Francisco Coronado

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

• Turk

He searched for the rumored seven cities made of gold, leading 300 Spanish soldiers to the Texas area in 1540.

• Francisco Coronado
• Turk

• Rene-Robert De La Salle

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

He would be captured and enslaved by the Coahuiltecan natives with 3 other Spaniards. They would later escape. After removing an arrowhead from a man’s chest, the group became famous as healers.

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca
• Panfilo de Narvaez

• Franciso Coronado

• Turk

French explorer who, in 1682, canoed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico. There he planted the French flag and claimed all of the land drained by the Mississippi for France.

• Rene-Robert de La Salle

• Fray Damian Massanet

• Antonio Margil de Jesus

• Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca

In 1691, he dedicated his life and work to missions among the Native Americans in East Texas. He stayed at the mission of San Francisco de los Tejas and wanted to do mission work with the Caddos.

• Francisco Hidalgo
• Rene-Robert de La Salle

• Fray Damian Massanet

• Antonio Margil de Jesus

He was the founder of the first Spanish mission in East Texas named San Francisco de los Tejas. Native Americans became resentful and even planned an attack on the mission.

• Fray Damian Massanet
• Francisco Hidalgo

• Rene-Robert de La Salle

• Hernando Cortez

An early Roman Catholic missionary to Texas. After serving in Mexico and Central America, he traveled into Spanish Texas where he established several missions in East Texas by 1717.

• Antonio Margil De Jesus
• Francisco Hidalgo

• Turk

• Rene-Robert de La Salle

A Native American who told Coronado about Quivera: a region full of cities of gold. Coronado killed me for deceiving him.

• Turk
• Antonio Margil De Jesus

• Francisco Hidalgo

• Rene-Robert de La Salle

Gold, Glory, and God: the European explorers came to the Americas to become rich, famous, and to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

• Three G's
• Gold

• Glory

• God