Bibliography of Spanish Florida
See also: Books on Southeastern Indians / Expedition Accounts Online
The bibliography below focuses both a list of books that I compiled over the years, and on a separate page I have placed a more expansive compiled bibliography compiled by students in a graduate seminar class I taught in 2013.
On separate pages, I have also assembled a bibliography of important sources on the Books on Southeastern Indians, and a bibliography of original Expedition Accounts Online.
Books
The books listed below are provided in order to provide a basic bibliography of books that primarily or exclusively deal with some aspect of colonial Spanish Florida during the First Spanish Period from an historical and/or archaeological perspective. I have focused on the most recent books, but have also included some of the older "classic" sources (only a few prior to the 20th century), some of which are very out of date, including early English translations of original narratives. A more complete bibliography of journal articles, individual book chapters, and other publications that address the many facets of this subject is far beyond the scope of this page right now, but the books below will, in most cases, lead readers to many additional sources. In cases where the entire text of one of the books below is currently online, a link is provided.
Separately, I have also created a list of online original accounts accounts of 16th-century settlement attempts in Florida, including both published and manuscript narratives in both original and translated form.
The Adelantamiento of Florida, 1565-1568, by Eugene Lyon (Ph.D. Dissertation, 1973). [full text online]
Apalachee: The Land Between the Rivers, by John H. Hann (University of Florida Press, 1988). [2017 version full text online]
The Apalachee Indians and Mission San Luis, by John H. Hann and Bonnie G. McEwan (University Press of Florida, 1998).
Archaeology of Colonial Pensacola, edited by Judith A. Bense (University Press of Florida, 1999).
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 1. Search and Discovery, edited by David Hurst Thomas (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 63, Pt. 2, 1987). [full text online; and here]
The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale: 2. Biocultural Interpretations of a Population in Transition, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 68, 1990). [full text online; and here]
Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida, by Jerald T. Milanich (University Press of Florida, 1994). [2017 version full text online]
Arredondo's Historical Proof of Spain's Title to Georgia: A Contribution to the History of One of the Spanish Borderlands, edited by Herbert E. Bolton (University of California Press, 1925). [full text online]
Arte de la lengua timuquana compuesto en 1614 por el P. Francisco Pareja y publicado conforme al ejemplar original único por Lucien Adam y Julien Vinson (Paris Maisonneuve Frères & Leclerc, 1886). [full text online]
Excavations on the Franciscan Frontier: Archaeology at the Fig Springs Mission, by Brent Richards Weisman (University Press of Florida, 1992).
Bioarchaeology of Spanish Florida: The Impact of Colonialism, edited by Clark Spencer Larsen (University Press of Florida, 2001).
Biographical Dictionary of the Franciscans in Spanish Florida and Cuba, 1528-1841, by Maynard Geiger (St. Anthony Guild Press, 1940). [full text online through JSTOR]
Black Society in Spanish Florida, by Jane Landers (University of Illinois Press, 1999).
Borderland Empires in Transition: The Triple-Nation Transfer of Florida, by Robert L. Gold (Southern Illinois University Press, 1969).
Brevis narratio eorvm qvæ in Florida Americæ provi̇cia Gallis acciderunt, by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues and Theodor de Bry (Frankfort : J. Wechel, 1591). [full text online; high-res engraving scan collections also in black and white here and in color here]
The Building of the Castillo de San Marcos, by Luis Rafael Arana and Albert Manucy (Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1977).
Coleccion de Documentos Relativos al Descubrimiento, Conquista y Colonizacion de las Posesiones Españolas en América y Oceanía, sacados, en su mayor parte, del Real Archivo de Indias (edited by Joaquin F. Pacheco, Francisco de Cárdenas, and Luis Torres de Mendoza, Madrid, 1865) [Biedma account of the Hernando de Soto expedition on pp. 414-441 beginning here]
Colección de Varios Documentos para la Historia de la Florida y Tierras Adyacentes, transcribed by Buckingham Smith (Trübner y Compañia, 1857). [full text online here and here]
Colonial Records of Spanish Florida: Letters and Reports of Governors and Secular Persons, Volume I, 1570-1577, translated and edited by Jeannette Thurber Connor (The Florida State Historical Society, 1925). [full text online here]
Colonial Records of Spanish Florida: Letters and Reports of Governors, Deliberations of the Council of the Indies, Royal Decrees, and other Documents, Volume II, 1577-1580, translated and edited by Jeannette Thurber Connor (The Florida State Historical Society, 1930). [full text online here, but requires free Family Search account]
Columbian Consequences: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives on the Spanish Borderlands East, edited by David Hurst Thomas (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990). [full text borrowable online here]
Columbus and the Land of Ayllón: The Exploration and Settlement of the Southeast, edited by Jeannine Cook (Lower Altamaha Historical Society, 1992). [full text borrowable online here]
The Cross in the Sand: The Early Catholic Church in Florida, 1513-1870, by Michael V. Gannon (University Presses of Florida, 1965).
The Debatable Land: A Sketcyh of the Anglo-Spanish Contest for the Georgia Country, by Herbert E. Bolton and Mary Ross (University of California Press, 1925). [full text online here]
The Defenses of Spanish Florida, 1565-1763, by Verne E. Chatelain (Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1941).
The DeSoto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543, edited by Lawrence A. Clayton, Vernon James Knight, Jr., and Edward C. Moore (2 vols., University of Alabama Press, 1993).
Documentos Históricos de la Florida y la Luisiana, siglos XVI al XVIII, edited by Manuel Serrano y Sanz (Biblioteca de los Americanistas, 1912). [full text online here and here and here]
An Early Florida Adventure Story, by Fray Andrés de San Miguel, translated by John H. Hann (University Press of Florida, 2001).
Ensayo cronologico, para la historia general de la Florida, by Andrés González de Barcia Carballido y Zúñiga (Madrid, 1723). [full text online; published English translation entitled Barcia's Chronological History of the Continent of Florida available here]
The Enterprise of Florida: Pedro Menéndez de Avilés and the Spanish Conquest of 1565-1568, by Eugene Lyon (University Presses of Florida, 1974).
Experiencia Misionera en La Florida (Siglos XVI y XVII), by Gregory Joseph Keegan and Leandro Tormo Sanz (Instituto Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo, Madrid, 1957). [full text online]
Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission, by John R. Swanton (United States Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., 1939) [full text online; includes useful parallel itinerary based on the different accounts]
First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Caribbean and the Southeastern United States, 1492-1570, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Susan Milbrath (University Press of Florida, 1991). [2017 version full text online]
La Florida, by Alonso de Escobedo (c1598-1615, MSS/187, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid). [full text online]
La Florida del Inca, by Garcilaso de la Vega (Madrid, 1723). [full text online; and here; also here]
La Florida: su conquista y colonización por Pedro Menéndez de Avilés (edited by Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia, Madrid, Imp. de los hijos de J.A. García, 1893) [full text online for Volume 1 and Volume 2]
Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe, by Jerald T. Milanich (University Press of Florida, 1995). [2017 version full text online]
Florida's Frontiers, by Paul E. Hofffman (Indiana University Press, 2002).
Florida on Trial, 1593-1602, by Charles W. Arnade (University of Miami Press, 1959).
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704, edited by Charles Hudson and Carmen Chaves Tesser (University of Georgia Press, 1994).
Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom, by Kathleen Deagan and Darcie MacMahon(University Press of Florida, 1995).
The Franciscan Conquest of Florida (1573-1618), by Maynard Geiger (Catholic University of America, 1937).
Francisco Pareja's 1613 Confessionario: A Documentary Source for Timucuan Ethnography, by Jerald T. Milanich and William C. Sturtevant (Florida Department of State, 1972).
Geografía y descripción universal de las Indias, recopilada por el cosmógrafo-cronista Juan López de Velasco, desde el año de 1571 al de 1574, publicada por primera vez en el Boletín de la Sociedad geográfica de Madrid, con adiciones é ilustraciones, por don Justo Zaragoza, by Juan López de Velasco (Establecimiento Tipográfico de Fontanet, Madrid, 1894). [full text online; and here; and here; and here; an original manuscript version of part of this entitled Demarcación y división de las Indias is here]
The Governorship of Spanish Florida, 1700-1763, by John Jay TePaske (Duke University Press, 1964). [full text online]
Here They Once Stood: The Tragic End of the Apalachee Missions, by Mark F. Boyd, Hale G. Smith, and John W. Griffin (reprint of 1951 edition; University Press of Florida, 1999). [2017 version full text online]
Hernando de Soto and the Florida Indians, by Jerald T. Milanich and Charles Hudson (University Press of Florida, 1993).
The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast, edited by Patricia Galloway (University of Nebraska Press, 1997).
Historia General de los hechos de los Castellanos en las islas, y tierra firme del Mar Oceano, by Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas (Madrid, 1601). [full text online; links to all 8 volumes here]
Historia General y Natural de las Indias, Islas y Tierra-Firme del Mar Océano, by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés (edited by José Amador de los Rios, Real Academia de la Historia, Madrid, 1851)
V. 1 (1851) / V. 2 (1852) / V. 3 (1853) / V. 4 (1855)
Ayllón expedition accounts: V. 3 (1853), pp. 627-632 / V. 4 (1855), pp. 537-538
Ranjel account of Soto expedition: V. 1 (1851, pp. 544-577)
Historia de la Provincia de la Compañia de Jesus de Nueva Espana, Vol. I, by Francisco Javier Alegre (edited by Carlos María de Bustamante, Imprenta de J.M. Lara, Mexico City, 1841) [full text online here; see also Vol. 2 (1842) and Vol. 3 (1842), esp. pp. 277-280 re: 1743 Jesuit mission to Miami]
A History of the Timucua Indians and Missions, by John H. Hann (University Press of Florida, 1996).
The Houses of St. Augustine: Notes on the Architecture from 1565-1821, by Albert Manucy (St. Augustine Historical Society, 1962).
Indians of Central and South Florida, 1513-1763, by John H. Hann (University Press of Florida, 2003).
The Journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and His Companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536, translated by Fanny Bandelier (A.S. Barnes & Company, 1905). [full text online]
The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568, by Charles M. Hudson, Jr. (reprint of 1990 edition; University of Alabama Press, 2005). [Hoffman translation of long Bandera account online]
The King's Coffer: Proprietors of the Spanish Florida Treasury, 1565-1702, by Amy Bushnell (University Presses of Florida, 1981). [2017 version full text online]
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando de Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, by Charles Hudson (University of Georgia Press, 1997).
La Florida, Su Conquista y Colonización por Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, edited by Eugenio Ruidíaz y Caravia (Hijos de J.A. García, 1893). [full text online]
La Florida: La Misión Jesuítica (1566-1572) y La Colonización Espanola, by Féliz Zubillaga (Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu, 1941). [full text online]
Laboring in the Fields of the Lord: Spanish Missions and Southeastern Indians, by Jerald T. Milanich (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999; University Press of Florida, 2006).
Letter of Hernando de Soto, and Memoir of Hernando de Escalante Fontaneda, edited by Buckingham Smith (Washington, 1854). [full text online]
The Luna Papers, 1559-1561, by Herbert Ingram Priestley (original full text available online for Volume I andVolume II); single-volume edition with new Foreword by John E. Worth (University of Alabama Press, 2010) for sale online as paper and e-book versions here]
The Martyrs of Florida (1513-1616), by Luis Gerónimo de Oré, translated by Maynard Geiger (Joseph F. Wagner, Inc., 1936). [full text online]
Mission and Pueblo Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis. by Elizabeth J. Reitz, Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, Daniel C. Weinand, Gwyneth A. Duncan, and David Hurst Thomas (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 91, 2010). [full text of all chapters here]
Missions to the Calusa, by John H. Hann (University of Florida Press, 1991).
Monumenta Antiquae Floridae, by Felix Zubillaga (Monumenta Historica Societatis Iesu, 1946). [full text online]
Narratives of the Career of Hernando de Soto in the Conquest of Florida (2 vols.), edited by Edward Gaylord Bourne (A.S. Barnes and Company, 1904). [full text online for Volume 1 and Volume 2]
The Native American World Beyond Apalachee: West Florida and the Chattahoochee Valley, by John H. Hann (University Press of Florida, 2006).
Naufragios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, y Relacion de la jornada, que hizo a la Florida con el adelantado Panfilo de Narvaez, by Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca (Madrid, 1749). [full text online]
A New Andalucia and a Way to the Orient: The American Southeast during the Sixteenth Century, by Paul E. Hoffman (Louisiana State University Press, 1990).
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Adelantado, Governor, and Captain-General of Florida. Memorial by Gonzalo Solís de Merás, translated and edited by Jeannette Thurber Connor (The Florida State Historical Society, 1923). [full text online]
Pre-Seminole Florida: Spanish Soldiers, Friars, and Indian Missions, 1513-1763, by Robert Allen Matter (Garland Publishing, 1990). [full text online]
Presidio Santa Maria de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola, edited by Judith A. Bense (University Press of Florida, 2003).
Colleccao de Opusculos Reimpressos Relativos a Historia Das Navegaçoes Viagens e Coinquistas dos Portuguezes (Academia Real das Sciencias de Lisboa, 1875) [Includes the Elvas account of the Hernando de Soto expedition, entitled Relação verdadeira dos trabalhos que o governador D. Fernando de Souto e certos fidalgos portugueses passaram no descobrimento da Província Florida, originally published byAntonio de Burgos, 1557, transcribed on pp. 1-148 beginning here]
Relación de los Naufragios y Comentarios de Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca, Adelantado y Gobernador del Río de la Plata (2 vols.), edited by Manuel Serrano y Sanz (Librería General de Victoriano Suárez, 1906). [full text online]
Relación histórica de la Florida, escrita en el siglo XVII, edited by Atanasio López (Madrid, 1931). [full text online; actual transcribed text of Relación begins on image 63, or p. 55 in original]
Relación histórica de la Florida, escrita en el siglo XVII, II, Apendices, edited by Atanasio López (Madrid, 1933). [full text online]
Religion, Power, and Politics in Colonial St. Augustine, by Robert Kapitzke (University Press of Florida, 2001).
Santa Maria de Galve: A Story of Survival, edited by Viginia Parks (Pensacola Historical Society, 1998). [full text online]
The Siege of St. Augustine in 1702, by Charles W. Arnade (University of Florida Press, 1959). [full text online]
Situado and Sabana: Spain's Support System for the Presidio and Mission Provinces of Florida, by Amy Turner Bushnell (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 74, 1994). [full text online; also here]
Sixteenth-Century St. Augustine: The People and Their Homes, by Albert Manucy (University Press of Florida, 1997).
Los Sobrevivientes de la Florida: The Survivors of the De Soto Expedition, by Ignacio Avellaneda (edited by Bruce S. Chappell). Research Publications of the P. K. Yonge Library of Florida History, No. 2. University of Florida Libraries, Gainesville, Florida. [full text online]
The Spanish Borderlands: A Chronicle of Old Florida and the Southwest, by Herbart Bolton (Yale University Press, 1921). [full text online]
The Spanish Jesuit Mission in Virginia, 1570-1572, by Clifford M. Lewis and Albert J. Loomie (University of North Carolina Press, 1953). [full text online]
The Spanish Missions of Georgia, by John Tate Lanning (University of North Carolina Press, 1935). [full text online]
The Spanish Missions of La Florida, edited by Bonnie G. McEwan (University Press of Florida, 1993).
Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community, by Kathleen Deagan (Academic Press, 1983).
The Spanish Settlements in the United States: Florida, 1562-1574, by Woodbury Lowery (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1905). [full text online]
The Spanish Settlements within the Present Limits of the United States, 1513-1561, by Woodbury Lowery (3 vols., G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1911).[full text online]
Stability & Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702, by Rebecca Saunders (University of Alabama Press, 2000).
The Struggle for the Georgia Coast, by John E. Worth (reprint of 1995 edition, with expanded preface; University of Alabama Press, 2007).
The Struggle for the Georgia Coast: An Eighteenth-Century Spanish Retrospective on Guale and Mocama, by John E. Worth (Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 75, 1995). [full text online]
Tacachale: Essays on the Indians of Florida and Southeastern Georgia during the Historic Period, edited by Jerald T. Milanich and Samuel Proctor (University Presses of Florida, 1978). [2017 version full text online]
The Timucua, by Jerald T. Milanich (Blackwell Publishers, 1996).
The Timucuan Chiefdoms of Spanish Florida, Vol. 1: Assimilation, Vol. 2: Resistance and Destruction, by John E. Worth (University Press of Florida, 1998). [digital and paperback editions available here and
The Triangular Struggle for Spanish Pensacola, 1689-1739, by Lawrence Carroll Ford (The Catholic University of America Press, 1939). [full text online]
Tristán de Luna, Conquistador of the Old South: A Study of Spanish Imperial Strategy, by Herbert Ingram Priestley (The Arthur H. Clark Co., 1936). [full text online]
The Unwritten History of Old St. Augustine, by A.M. Brooks and Annie Averette (The Record Co., 1909). [full text online; also here] [caution: translations are sometimes poor]
The Whole & True Discouerye of Terra Florida, by Jean Ribault (facsimile reprint of 1563 edition edited by Jeannette Thurber Connor, Florida State Historical Society, 1927). [full text online]
Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia, by Theodor de Bry (1590). [full text online; 1620 version here]