Everystein Singleberg Timeowitz.
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It gets dumber the more you read it.
"Nearly 500 years ago, a Moroccan man walked thousands of miles from Florida to the Pacific Coast, becoming the first known outsider to see the American West."
Immediately followed by: "In 1528, a man from Morocco washed up on the coast of present-day Texas, more dead than alive"
It then proceeds to show a map depicting he walked from Texas, Not Florida (AT MINIMUM a 374 mile difference), westward. Based on the map, the difference would actually be closer to 821 miles that the author essentially fucked up by, and that's straight line through rivers, swamps, marshes, valleys, that would have been there centuries ago, not highways we have now.
Don't forget they have a picture of a black as the lead image when moors were tawny Mediterraneans.
Ah, yeah, that is what I remember from hearing this story many times growing up. Galveston to Mexico/New Spain after a decent amount of time spent on Galveston itself. Was wondering where the hell the Florida thing came from.
Edit: I think they are counting the time on the ship, they went past Florida hugging the coast before being shipwrecked.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Expedition_Cabeza_de_Vaca_Karte.png/1920px-Expedition_Cabeza_de_Vaca_Karte.png