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Few English-speaking readers are familiar with the life or the
writings of the sixteenth-century Franciscan chronicler Luis
Jerónimo de Oré, particularly his neglected Relación, about the
early Spanish presence in territories now part of the United
States. His account of La Florida—an area that in the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries included present-day Florida as well as
territory north to Virginia and west into Kansas—reflects the
desire of the Spanish Crown and various religious orders to explore
and to establish a presence in the region. This edition of Luis
Jerónimo de Oré’s work presents readers with a new introduction
and an annotated translation that place the text in the broader
context of international politics. The narrative develops our
understanding of the early Spanish presence in the continental
United States while documenting frontier life and the contacts with
Native Americans in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
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