This week on The History Files we begin a three-part series on the Spanish conquest of America and how these territories evolved into the present day Western US. Starting with early exploration by Ponce de Leon, who probably never really hunted for the Fountain of Youth, we get as far as 1840s Texas… Which is as far as Santa Anna got.

Show notes and links:

* Thomas Cromwell (en.wikipedia.org).

* The First Legislative Assembly in North America, 1619. (en.wikipedia.org).

* Maximilien Robespierre (en.wikipedia.org).

* Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. (wp.me).

* Korean War armistice. (en.wikipedia.org).

* Richard Nixon , his impeachment and the Watergate scandal. (en.wikipedia.org).

* Close to Shore: The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916, by Michael Capuzzo: (2002).

* The Alamo (1960) dir. John Wayne

* Alamo: The Price of Freedom (1988) Imax, Casey Biggs.

* The Alamo (2004) dir. John Lee Hancock. Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, etc.

* Juan Ponce de León (en.wikipedia.org).

* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (en.wikipedia.org).

* Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (en.wikipedia.org).

* Juan de Oñate (en.wikipedia.org).

* Utopia by Thomas More (en.wikipedia.org). Complete text here.

* Museum at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Home of the Segesser hide paintings.

* Tlaxcalens (en.wikipedia.org).

* Adams–Onís Treaty (en.wikipedia.org).

* Moses Austin (en.wikipedia.org).

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