How 4 survivors made their way across the US

Name: How 4 survivors made their way across the US
Uploaded: 2026-06-15T17:00:04.000Z
Duration: 1 min 35 s

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Native America

Almost exactly 500 years ago, a shipwrecked Spaniard named Cabeza de Vaca and three companions made the first trans-continental journey in the history of the American West. Then he wrote down his account of eight years in Native America, one of the great First Contact stories of all time.

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