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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).

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