In 1888 Esparto was laid with track from the Vaca Valley Railroad ( later consolidated into the Southern Pacific Railroad ) that trailed to Rumsey.

The Vaca Valley Railroad began in 1937 to remove track from Rumsey to Esparto, stopping train service northwest of Esparto in 1941.

When Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish conquistador arrived in Santa Catarina in 1541, for example, he attempted to ban cannibalistic practices in the name of the King of Spain.

In 1530 Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca writes of them using the name Atayos.

The Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca and his crew were shipwrecked on the island or nearby in November 1528, calling it " Isla de Malhado " (" Isle of Doom "), and there began his famous trek to Mexico.

* 1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.

* November 6 – Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of what is present-day Texas.

The first European to find the falls was the Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1541.

Spanish explorers Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca in 1535 and Antonio de Espejo in 1583 crossed Brewster County on their way to La Junta de los Ríos, the juncture of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos.

Although the area had long been a popular watering hole for Native Americans and other prehistoric residents and nomads, including members of the more recently established Jumano, Apache, and Comanche tribes, the first European to view the site now known as Big Spring was probably a member of a Spanish expedition, possibly that of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, although the record of his travels cannot confirm his visit.

Other Spanish expeditions outside the Amazon influenced the story ; the conversation in which the Indians refuse a Bible comes from events before the Battle of Cajamarca, and the chronicle of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca mentions the appearance of a boat in a treetop.

Spanish and French had two of the strongest colonial literary traditions in the areas that now comprise the United States, and discussions of early American literature commonly include texts by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and Samuel de Champlain alongside English language texts by Thomas Harriot and John Smith.

* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( c. 1488 – 1557 ) – Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

Cabeza de Vaca reported that in 1528, when the Spanish landed in Texas, “ half the natives died from a disease of the bowels and blamed us .” When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Incan empire, a large portion of the population, had already died in a smallpox epidemic.

The previous summer in Paris, she had met the Spanish athlete Alfonzo Cabeza de Vaca, Marquis of Portago ( Alfonso de Portago ).

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca ( Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488 / 1490 – Seville, c. 1557 / 1558 ) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, one of four survivors of the Narváez expedition.

Cabeza de Vaca was born around 1490 into a hidalgo family, and as such was a member of the Spanish nobility without economic resources.

* Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Spanish explorer

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish conquistador, refuted the common held notion that the Karankawa people were cannibals in his diaries after living with them.

Cabeza De Vaca also acknowledged the fact that he and his fellow Spanish conquistadors committed acts of cannibalism on their own dead to stay alive after shipwrecking off Galveston Bay.

In 1536, four survivors — Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alonso del Castillo Maldonado, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and his enslaved Moor Estevanico — finally managed to rejoin Spanish countrymen in present-day Mexico.

Together with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, they headed west and south hoping to reach the Spanish Empire's outpost in Mexico.

His Spanish father was Antonio Cabeza de Vaca.

A slave, he was one of four survivors of the Spanish Narváez expedition and traveled with Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Andrés Dorantes de Carranza, and Alonso Del Castillo across northern New Spain ( present-day U. S. southwest and northern Mexico ).

What he is not, normally, known for are special exhibitions like the Papago Legends, Padre Kino, Cabeza de Vaca, detailed and ornate crowns and jewelry, stylish blouses and skirts, corny Western movies, genius master's thesis theories, whimsical ceramics and metal work, Spanish and jazz influenced music, and the list continues for this prolific artist.

Cristóbal Vaca de Castro, who was sent by the Spanish crown to impose order on the newly conquered territories, asked Fray Tomás to establish a provisional government in Peru.

While red tides in the Gulf of Mexico have been occurring since the time of early explorers such as Cabeza de Vaca, it is unclear what initiates these blooms and how large a role anthropogenic and natural factors play in their development.

* March 29-Lloyd Honeyghan recovers the WBC world Welterweight championship with a third round knockout of Jorge Vaca in their rematch at London.

The surname Cabeza de Vaca ( meaning " cow head ") was granted to his mother's family in the 13th century, when his ancestor Martín Alhaja aided a Christian army attacking Moors by leaving a cow's head to point out a small secret mountain pass for their use.

As the navigators were unsure of their location, Cabeza de Vaca thought it prudent to keep the land and sea forces together.

Every day at dawn hundreds of people begin their daily activities by walking or jogging along the sidewalk that encloses Parque Vaca Brava.

Vaca de Castro agreed to present their case to the Crown.

Vaca Brava ( which could be roughly translated as Angry Cow ) has become a symbol of the new thriving area of the Setor Bueno, which has flourished in the past decades and is now one of the most important zones of Goiânia.

In 1549, Captain General Domingo Martinez de Irala became the first Spaniard to explore the region, but it was not until 1558, when Ñuflo de Chaves, who had arrived in Asuncion in 1541 with Alfredo Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, led a new expedition with the objective of settling the region.

After Hormando Vaca Diez and Mario Cossío, presidents of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies, respectively, were forced by protestors to decline the post, Rodríguez — as head of the judiciary and fourth in the line of succession — became the country's new president on June 10, 2005.

After Francisco's assassination in 1541, power was usurped by Cristóbal Vaca de Castro as new governor of " New Castile ".

The peace that had prevailed under Irala broke down in 1542 when Charles V appointed Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, one of the most renowned conquistadors of his age, as governor of the province.

The first Spaniards came to Presidio in 1535, when Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions stopped at the Indian pueblo, placed a cross on the mountainside, and called the village La Junta de las Cruces.

He lost his title to Jorge Vaca in 1987 when a clash of heads meant that the fight had to be stopped due to a cut sustained by Vaca.

Honeyghan became only the second British boxer in history to regain a world title when he knocked Vaca out in a return fight, the first being Ted " Kid " Lewis earlier in the 20th century.

Storms, thirst and starvation had reduced the expedition to about 80 survivors when a hurricane dumped Cabeza de Vaca and his companions on the western shore of a barrier island.