Description2017 North Carolina Historian of the Year Although Imperial Spain laid claim to Southeast North America for more than seven decades during the 16th century, attempts to Colonize this region proved to be a dismal failure.
Thereafter, the author became so captivated with the idea of Spanish explorers marching across these lands that he first wrote "Of Eagles & Wolves," a.
Spanish artifacts were uncovered among the remains of several burned cabins once occupied by soldiers of Captain Juan Pardo at Fort San Juan, a date some twenty years before England\'s "Lost Colony" arrived on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and four decades before the English settled James Towne, Virginia.
During these years he wrote articles for a local newspaper and eventually published some of these in "Burke County: Historic Tales from the Gateway to the Blue Ridge," and also published "Indians of Burke County and Western North Carolina" for local interest as well as a booklet entitled "Time Capsules: the Why, the How, the Where." After retiring as a Dean Emeritus, this author became fascinated with an archaeological excavation of a sixteenth American Indian town called Joara near his home - and then they made an unexpected discovery that began to rewrite the early colonial history of the United States.
About the Author As a career community college educator and teacher of world history and anthropology, the author developed a special interest in western North Carolina\'s history and prehistory.
Ultimately, it was the determination and intrepid resistance by Catawba, Creek and Cherokee chiefdoms to these invasions of their homeland that changed world history -- and a future United States of America.
Likewise, Spain\'s honored conquistadors Hernando de Soto, Trist n de Luna and Supreme Commander Pedro Men ndez with his captain Juan Pardo would also fail.
Neither Juan Ponce de Le n who charted La Florida, "The Land of Flowers," nor Lucas V zquez de Ayll n or P nfilo de Narv ez would succeed.
Description2017 North Carolina Historian of the Year Although Imperial Spain laid claim to Southeast North America for more than seven decades during the 16th century, attempts to Colonize this region proved to be a dismal failure
