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Selected Readings on Living History Interpretation (ALFAM)
Living History Association (Insurance)
Johnah World! American Civil War oriented, but no matter what era(s) of re-enactment you’re involved in you’ll enjoy this site.
Spanish Colonial Reenactment
Historical Reenactment Links
Tips,
Techniques, &c. for the Reenactor
He brings out the Conquistador
INSIGHT by Geitner Simmons (I'm quoted - correctly!)
Re-enactors bring past to present
A link
to La Compañia de Calderón en Español
Of Like Mind Other 16th C. re-enactment groups, especially Spanish or Florida Related
Mississippi Valley Educational Programs De Soto reenactment in Arkansas
De Soto 2000 - Event in Parkin, ArkansasMVEP at the Arkansas History Insitute
De Soto 2000 - Message Board
European Contact Photos of several members of Calderon’s Company in this site
Men of Menendez (still waiting for a website - in the meantime look here)
Prince Rupert's Blewcoates & Drake's Men
The Grand Muster in St. Augustine, FloridaFlorida Military History Preservation Society Inc.. - French Huguenot 1560's at Fort Caroline
Gordon’s Musketeers who participate with the English at Drake’s Raid
Spanish Colonial Living History Organizations from Hispanic USA
Calderon's Company on Hispanic USA
Las Gentes de Coronado/Arizona Medieval Society
El Conquistador - Arizona Historical Society
La Sociedad de la Entrada (New Mexico, Oñate Expedition of 1598) [Coming Soon! & I'm Still Waiting!]
Tattershall Trayned Band (English Pike & Shot Company that also studies and reenacts Spanish expeditionary forces in the Southwest)
Heritage of the Ancient Ones (Pre-Columbian & Contact Era Indian Re-enactment)
Pastimes
- News article
...and of not quite so like mind...
“The Crewe of Hernando de Soto” (Think Chamber of Commerce in Costume!)
...and some other 16th C. & 17th C.groups...
Military Reenactment Organizations
Sainte Marie among the Iroquois (17th C, French of all things!) I'm including it here because regular visits, when I was a kid, to the reconstructed "French Fort" at Onondaga Lake Park were my first exposure any sort of "living history." Also here.
...and although I've been called "Gramps," Old Timer," and "Geez talk about primitive!," by some 18th & 19th C. Spanish Colonial types. In particular from Rick Collins of the 2nd Independent Company of Catalonian Volunteers. : ) I thought that I should include some of them on the links page.
Spanish Colonial Living History
Soldados Message Board - Spanish Colonial and Mexican Reenactors (Archived Mailing List)
St.
Augustine Garrison at the Castillo de San Marcos
Historical Background to the Story of St. Augustine
Two cities one history.
The Menendez Site. - en Español
Reenactments
Event Calendar (usually out of date)
Fountain of Youth (A humorous review of St. Augustine’s Fountain of Youth Park, which is typically the encampment site for reenactment in St. Augustine)
Menendez Landing - News Report - Look for my smiling visage as an arquebusier!
Menenedez
Birthday Celebration - News Report - Scroll down a bit for a photo
of Calderon's Company's Sheila Benjamin and her shoulder mounted copper
water jug.
Drake's Raid Reenactment News Report
Photos from Drake’s on the Gordon’s Web Page
Drake's Attack on St. Augustine
The Golden Hinde (Drake’s Ship)
Dig: Evidence of Drake’s Raid News Report - Archaeology
Camelot Excalibur: The Adventures of an Extraordinary Hispano-Arabe and His Person.
The Drake Raids Again - News Preview of the 2000 Event with photos from the 1999 Event
The Raid Goes On But Spanish Nightwatch is off
De Soto Winter Encampment in Tallahassee
De
Soto reenactment brings 16th century to life News Report
De Soto National Memorial Offical NPS Homepage
Hernando de Soto Expedition - Brown Quarterly
De Soto National Memorial Visitor's Review
BRADENTON
: SAY HELLO TO THE CONQUISTADORS
The De Soto Site (Tallahassee, FL)
San Marcos
de Apalache State Historic Site
Parkin Archaeological State Park (Casqui of the De Soto Expedition)
Travel
& Trade at the Parkin Site
Ocmulgee National Monument (Typical of the Mississipian Culture encountered by De Soto)
Old Cahawba (Alabama)I
don’t know if they still do, but at one time the had (based on some inquires
as to how to clean rusty chain mail and get armor) had a Living History
program with at least a partial De Soto orientation. I never heard back
from them.
NPS (16th C. Related National Park Service Sites)
Coronado National Memorial-Brown Quarterly
Fort Caroline National Memorial
Fort Caroline (Unoffical site with lots of photos)
Fort Raleigh National
Historic Site
San Juan National Historic Site
Having
A Blast (News Story: NPS Cannon School at the Castillo de San Marcos)
Museums where members of Calderon’s Company have done Living History demonstrations:
St. Petersburg Museum of History (Curse of the Black Legend)
Collier County Museum (Old Florida Festival)
Click on thumbnail for photo of Calderon’s Company or here for the cute kid in my armor picture.Tampa Bay History Center (Grand Opening)
News Article on the Old Florida Festival
Photo from the 1999 OFF
Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville (Time Travelers)
Other Museums and Exhibits of Interest
Myths and Dreams: Exploring
the Cultural Legacies of Florida and the Caribbean
Regardless of the sucess of the expeditions of Hernando de Soto and
other conquistadors during the sixteenth century they have been extrodinally
successful as marketing tools whose familiar names are part of our culture.
So as a service for some searching web resources actually related to the
conquistadors; as opposed to golf courses, sub-divisions, resorts, shopping
malls, schools, etc., some links:
Hernando de Soto (DeSoto is a car not a Conquistador!)
Seinfeld fans may remember this bit of dialog:Texas Armadillo Site Grade School level, but some great lines; “You will see the use of the word "wardogs" and should know the Spanish used vicious dogs which were specially trained to “disembowel" human beings. (Yes, that means to rip open their stomachs with their sharp teeth and tear out their guts!) Nothing impresses 3rd graders like gore.GEORGE: DeSoto.
JERRY: DeSoto, what'd he do?
GEORGE: He discovered the Mississippi!
JERRY: Oh, yeah. Like they wouldn't have found that anyway.
The Hernando de Soto Expedition
Spanish Exploration and Contact
Where Conquistadors
went in North America Alternative History. This is the most extensive
De Soto site on the web, its many pages, and mirror site servers (at least
4 that I’ve detected), tend to fill search engines crowding out other sites.
Also, while it does give an excellent account of the four year-four thousand
mile journey of the expedition its route re-construction is not at all
accepted by most scholars. Hudson’s route is controversial enough, this
site ignores Hudson’s and compares itself to Swanton's 1939 reconstruction.
Although I remain quite skeptical of the author's conclusions, I'm content
to let the academics argue this one out, however I have noticed a number
of grade school sites using this site almost exclusively, and tending to
mimic its claims.
HERNANDO DE SOTO: Legacy of a Conquistador
De Soto seeks fame, fortune in La Florida
DE SOTO - THE GREATEST EXPLORER
Hernando de Soto (Short Bio)
Questions for Hernando De Soto (Answered first person for grade school)
Soto Armas (in Spanish)
By the way, it was Hernando Alarcon, and not Cabrillo (1542), who is generally accepted as the first European to have glimpsed what would one-day be the State of California. He arrived in the region in 1540 as part of the Coronado Expedition. However, having visited the less-well known Yuma area, he has remained in relative obscurity. A long list of explorers of the Colorado River, including people like the Jesuit Eusebio Kino (1701), Juan de Onate (1605), and Melchior Diaz (1540) should also be accepted as figures of Alta California History. However, they are largely ignored because they failed to walk along the Pacific edge of the State. I guess that the lesson to be learned from all this is that if you want to be remembered as an explorer, pray to God that the obscure future will bring high population concentrations and economic prosperity to the places that you visit.What follows are some links to varous places claiming to have a association with the Adelantado, often with little or no basis in fact:Jack S. Williams
Spanish conquistadors roamed the Rancho Relaxo area.-The Simpsons
History of Jefferson County Texas
Hernando de Soto Historical Marker
De Soto: :
City? Town? Village? Borough? Perhaps just a place of the mind.
Charles Hudson - One of the foremost authorities of the De Soto route & author of several books on the subject (Of course there’s a picture of me on page 68 of his “Knights of Spain ” book.)
Anthropologist traces explorer's route through American South
Knights Of Spain, Warriors Of The Sun; Hernando De Soto And The Souths Ancient Chiefdoms
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms.
Retracing
A Bloody Trail: DeSoto's Trip through the South
David Ewing Duncan
Hernando
de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas
Ewen & Hann
Hernando De Soto Among the Apalachee
Hernando
De Soto Among the Apalachee
Galloway
The Hernando
de Soto expedition : history, historiography, and "discovery" in the Southeast
/ edited by Patricia Galloway.
NPS
De
Soto, Coronado and Cabrillo
Discovery and Exploration (1513-1562)
Conquistadors in North America
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spanish Explorations
European Exploration in Georgia
Letters on Spanish Texas (Most of the North American Conquistadors are mentioned - grade school level - Great lines
CONQUEST The Spanish Occupation Of The United States
Juan Ponce de León (1513 &1521 La Florida)
Panfilo de Narvaez / Alvaro Núñez Cabeza de Vaca et. al.(1528)
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America (English Trans. E- Text)
THE JOURNEY of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca AND HIS COMPANIONS from Florida to the Pacific 1528-1538 (Another E-Text version)
Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (1541)
Coronado's Report to Viceroy Mendoza Sent from Cibola, August 3, 1540
Coronado's Report to the King of Spain Sent from Tiguex on October 20, 1541
The Journey of Coronado by Pedro de Casteneda (1596)
Coronado's Expedition
into the Southwest - A New (Jan.2001) and most impressive site
on the Coronado Expedition
Blanco Canyon:
The Big Dig (Photos of some of the Artifacts)
Glove may mark
the site of early North American expedition
Tristán de Luna y Arellano (1559)
Luna Ship Expedition (Grade school interactive site)
The Voyage of Don Tristan de Luna
Juan Pardo (1566-1568) (A series of newspaper columns on Pardo)
INSIGHT by Geitner SimmonsSpanish had many reasons for Pardo expedition
Understanding the “original Southerners”
Spanish empire failed to conquer Southeast
An unknown South: Pardo story helps Rowan learn about itself
Prairies and bottomland forests are among Rowan’s lost habitats
The Struggle for Empire (15 min. Real Video program on the Archaeology & history of Santa Elena/Charlesfort)
Antonio de Espejo (1582)
Juan de Oñate (1598)
Other Conquistadors in the Americas
Conquistadors (English/Spanish - very short)
Conquistadors
(Short bio's of the usual suspects - with a fraternity bent)
Cortés
Francisco Pizarro
FRANCISCO PIZARRO Spanish Conqueror of Peru
Research
Conquistador Armor Discovered (Brigindine)
brigandine armour (New Mexico)
Arms & Armor Photos from the Metropolitian Museum of Art
Linking the Past (Mail from the winter encampment site in Tallahassee)
Arms & Armor Museum,
Historic Combat Manuals, etc. Links
Conquistador: The Horse Magazine for Horses of Spanish Ancestry
THE STORY OF THE IBERIAN HORSE
Picture from a Sixteenth Century Fencing Manual
CANNON AND TACTICS OF THE 16th CENTURY
Warfare and Weaponry: 1558-1642
Los Tercios españoles. An excellent site, in Spanish, on the organization of the Spanish military in Europe during the 16th century.
Need a translator?
Franchesca V. Havas(Costuming Links)
Costuming and Needlework Links
Tudor
Era (c1450-1550) Shoe Designs
Castello Banfi - Culinary History -Christopher Columbus-
Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage
Names (Spanish women's)
Names (Spanish men's)
The Genealogy
of Mexico (list of conquistadors involved with various 16th C. Expeditions)
Material Culture (I’ve been reading archaeology texts for too long)
Pottery
Beads the Early Spaniards Brought
Dragonwing - Index of Monthly Columns A collection of articles on all matter of Medieval/Renissance tent related subjects.
Medieval Pavilion
in Basel, Switzerland
A Glossary of Colonial Spanish Nautical and Geographical Terms
16TH CENTURY Spanish
EXPLORATION VESSELS
Spanish Navigation Instuments c. 1565
Spanish Explorations---the Piñeda Map, 1519
The
Mapping of New Spain: Indigenous Cartography and the Maps of the Relaciones
Geográficas (Review Of:)
Prescott’s “Conquest of Mexico” Complete E-Text
The Spanish and Indigenous Peoples
Time of European Exploration - Florida Dept of State
Early Spanish Exploration and Indian Implements in Kansas
THOMAS HARIOT'S A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of V I R G I N I A
Where the Bufflo Roamed (A Refreshing Politically Incorrect Site)
The Crimes of Christopher Columbus (Another non-PC site)
Letter from Lope de Aguirre, rebel, to King Philip of Spain, 1561
The Columbian Quincentenary (A review of the Aniversary that fizzled.)
A Brief Synopsis of the Fall of the Incas
Post 16th C.
First Encounter - de Soto Meets the Chickasaws
Chief Tuskaloosa & Hernando De Soto (Arty)
Powell's De Soto and United States History
Pictograph of a Conquistador (18thC)
Guzman the Cruelest Conquistador
Period Illustrations
De Bry’s Grand Voyages: Early Expeditions to the New World
La Visión
de los Conquistadores
Center for Historical Archaeology
Southwestern Archaeology Messages
Emanuel Point (Pensecola-Tristan de Luna)
Mary Rose (English 1545)
Padre
Island Spanish Shipwrecks 1554
Loot & Plunder Purveyors of Arms, Armor, Clothing & other equipment
No endorsment is implied or expressed!
International Military Antiques Inc. Home Page
Timeless Instruments By Norman Greene The Astrolabe
It's About Time- Solid Wood Hourglass
Arkansas Depot (Shoes)
Table
Top Conquistadors (Scroll Down a bit)
Cabeza de Vaca
Aguirre
Aguirre the Wrath of God (Laser Disc-cover photos)
Aguirre
the Wrath of God (1972)
The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1969)
Balboa:
Conquistador of the Pacific [1964] (Never seen it)
De Soto - Legacy of a Legend (1970)
Legacy of
a Legend (AKA These Boots were made for walking) Scroll down a bit
for a review.
Children of the Sun / Death
March of De Soto (Archaeology TV Series) Video Cassette, 23 minutes
1992
I have never seen this film, and it is not listed in as having been released on video, (nor can I find any links to it) but I have seen of briefs clips of it during the De Soto episode of the Archaeology TV series. This episode has been released on video under the politically correct title of “The Death March of De Soto." The show has scenes of the battle of Mavilla from this movie. I suspect this film is the one mentioned in Joyce Rockwood Hudson’s Looking for De Soto (c.1984).
“Bruce [Kuerten] is a filmmaker who works for the public television station at Auburn University...The first act will last only twenty minutes on film, but it took us nearly two hours to go over it. It is about De Soto and Chief Tascaluza and the battle of Mabila...The film team had thoroughly researched the material world of the conquistadors and were paying great attention to the smallest details. There in vivid color were De Soto and his men, looking much as they must have looked.”
Children of the Sun (Scroll to the bottom: The only indication that I have that my mind isn't faulty in this matter; SCETV can't seem to find it though.)
In Search of De Soto’s Trail (PBS not Leonard Nimoy)
Conquistadors and Explorers: South Carolina Under the Spanish Flag
Fabian-Baber (In 1997 Calderon’s Company took part in a documentry production then entitled, “Era of Encounter” (was supposed to come out in winter of 1998. I still haven’t seen anything more than raw footage)
Venture Productions In the process of putting together the replacement for "Legacy of a Legend" in the Vistor's Center at De Soto National Memorial. Working title, "Hernando de Soto in America." Now showing at De Soto National Memorial - although Eastern National hasn't released a home version as yet.
Child of the Sun (Radio Drama)
Child of the Sun (Radio Drama)
Procul
Harum's Conquistador (lyrics)
Children
of the Sun: The Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca.
In addition tothe the URL links listed below a couple of other on-line resources are available to one interested in Living History and/or the Spanish Colonial Era:
Living History News Groups
soc.history.living, alt.history.livingAlso bit.listserv.museum-l (available on Deja-News)occassionally discusses living history topics,usually from the museum perspective rather than the re-enactors.
Moderated by Kent Goff of MVEP this is an achived e-mail originally intended just for planning the De Soto 2000 event in Arkansas, but still maintained for event annoucements, questions and the like for Conquistador era reenactors.
Mailing Lists
SPANBORD is a Listserver (Automatic e-mailer). Current membership is
around 250 in ten countries typical traffic is currently about 1 message/day.
SPANBORD - the history and archaeology of the Spanish Borderlands
For the purposes of this discussion list, we are defining the Spanishborderlands
as the following: Mexico - north of Zacatecas; United States: thegreater
Southwest, California, and the southeast (basically the areas of theU.S.
which were once part of the Spanish empire). The time period covered is1521-1900.
SPANBORD is designed to facilitate communication between people interestedin
such topics as the history of the area, acculturation, historicalarchaeology
of the Spanish Colonial period and the Mexican Republic era,material culture
studies, mission studies, military sites history andarchaeology, and other
aspects of the borderlands. We also encouragecontributions by specialists
and students in related fields such asethnohistory, architecture, art history,
and maritime studies.
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