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The Narváez Expedition in South Texas
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The Narváez Expedition in South Texas
Introduction
This article identifies the presence of survivors of the Narváez Expedition in south Texas from San Patricio County to the Rio Grande.
While most of the information we have about the Narváez Expedition castaways' travels through Texas deals with the upper and middle parts of the Texas coast, four different parties of the expedition, totaling approximately fifty men, set foot in south Texas.
These flat, dry plains and the bays and marshes along their edge are where the expedition's survivors were whittled down to the four who eventually reached present-day Mexico.
The two written chronicles of the Narváez Expedition do not give enough information about the castaways' travels in this part of the state to let us pinpoint them to any specific location.
In most cases, even our idea of which counties they vi
