Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface to 2005 Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Part I The Juan Pardo Expeditions -- 1 Early Spanish Exploration -- 2 Juan Pardo's Two Expeditions -- Pardo's First Expedition: December 1,1566 to March 7,1567 -- Moyano's Foray: April 1567 -- Pardo's Second Expedition: September 1,1567 to March 2,1568 -- 3 The Indians -- The Mississippian Transformation -- Social Structure of Chiefdoms in the Carolinas and Tennessee -- Polities, Cultures, Languages -- Cofitachequi -- Joara -- Guatari -- The Cherokees -- Coosa -- Economic Patterns -- 4 The Foundations of Greater Florida -- Outfitting the Second Expedition -- The Road to Zacatecas -- Dugout Canoes -- Pacifying the Indians -- The Houses the Indians Built -- The Forts the Spaniards Built -- The Missionaries -- Prospecting for Precious Metals and Gems -- 5 The Failure of Greater Florida -- Misconceptions about the Land and the Indians -- The Failure of the Forts -- The Shrinking of Florida -- The Decline and Coalescence of the Indians -- Los Diamantes and La Gran Copala -- Part II The Pardo Documents -- The "Long" Bandera Relation: AGI, Santo Domingo 224 -- The "Short" Bandera Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 20 -- The Pardo Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 22 (document 1) -- The Martinez Relation: AGI, Patronato 19, R. 22 (document 2) -- Three New Documents from the Pardo Expeditions: AGI, Contratación 2929 No.2, R. 7 -- Part III Afterword -- Pardo, Joara, and Fort San Juan Revisited -- Index -- Errata -- About the Authors.