Few English-speaking readers are familiar with the life or the writings of the sixteenth-century Franciscan chronicler Luis Jeronimo de Ore, particularly his neglected Relacion, about the early Spanish presence in territories now part of the United States. His account of La Florida--an area that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries included present-day Florida as well as territory north to Virginia and west into Kansas--reflects the desire of the Spanish Crown and various religious orders to explore and to establish a presence in the region. This edition of Luis Jeronimo de...