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>Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Great Pedestrian of North and South America. By Donald E. Chipman. Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series. (Denton: Texas State Historical Association, c. 2012. Pp. x, 70. Paper, $15.95, ISBN 978-0-87611-251-9.) Donald E. Chipman, a distinguished scholar of Spanish Texas, has written this densely detailed account of the amazing career of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (ca. 1490-ca. 1559), who famously walked, with four shipwrecked companions, from the vicinity of present-day Galveston Island across Texas and northern Mexico to the western shore of Mexico, where, after his six-year trek, he again met Spanish officials. This is about all most of us know about him. Chipman fleshes out Cabeza de Vaca's life, beginning with his background in Spain and his position in...