The South American Expeditions, 1540-1545

Translator’s Acknowledgments

j xxi Translator’s Acknowledgments IamgratefultoMr.LutherWilsonandMs.BethHadas,bothformer directors of the University of New Mexico Press, for giving me the opportunity and time to translate this second important memoir by Cabeza de Vaca. I would also like to thank Ms. Amy Duckert Bell and Ms. Rosine McConnell, as well as Mr. Chris Porosky, for their invaluable technical help in preparing the manuscript for the publisher. My good friends, Mr. V. B. Price and Mr. Jeff Romero, and my nephew, Mr. Matthew Huchmala, offered many helpful comments and other kindnesses over the long course of the translation. And for their unending patience and unflagging support, I am indebted to my wife, JoAnn Strathman, and my daughter, Susan Morrow. ...