For Spain, the marooned conquistador Alvar Cabeza De Vacaexplored the Gulf of Mexico and Texas beginning in 1528. The exploration of the US Southwest came under the expedition of Francisco Coronado from 1540 to 1542.
In eastern Texas, the Gulf Coast was later explored by the French explorer Robert de La Salle in an ill-fated 1684 expedition down the Misissippi River (the explorer was killed by mutineers on this voyage).
The first exploration by Europeans was by accident. The Spanish conquistador Alvar Cabeza de Vaca explored Texas and eventually reached Mexico after the disastrous Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1528.
Later exploration was in 1540 by Francisco Coronado and in 1684 by Robert de La Salle of France. It was not until 1822 that Americans under Stephen Austin settled in what was then the northern territory of Mexico.
Neotlithic First People, probably 12 000 years ago.
The first explorers in Texas were Captian De Pineda and his crew
In 1519, Spanish explorer Alonso Álvarez de Piñeda was the first European to visit Texas.
The first explorers in Texas were Juan De Onate, De Leon, Rene Robert and Robert Cavelier
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Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca is the first conquistador to explore Texas around the 1500's.
the first known inhabitants of Texas where the Indians , reidents
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Cabeza de Vaca was the first European in Texas.
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John Cabot was the first person to explore the new world for England.
Christopher Columbus did not explore Texas
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