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Native Americans were the first to do so. Then the first Europeans came, the Spanish. After that the Americans started exploring farther west before attaining this part of the modern day US. The French also had a short lived settlement in Texas.
It may be a reference to Garcia Lopez de Cardenas or to John Weley Powell.
Fransisco Vasquez De Coronado

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