Los Sobrevivientes de La Florida:


(1509-1930), and with the more recent study of James Lockhart,
The Men of Cajamarca. However, further comparisons may yield
interesting conclusions about the Spanish conquerors active in
different parts of the Americas. This study could be expanded to
include research in Mexican and Peruvian archives where many of
the Florida survivors appear to have spent their last years. Further
research in the Archivo Municipal de Jerez de los Caballeros, in
the Archivo de Protocolos de Sevilla, and in selected private
archives in Spain may yield additional information on the
background of some of de Soto's men, and on their post-Florida
activities. A study of these activities could complement Ida
Altman's, Emigrants and Society (Berkeley, 1989).

 This study could not have been accomplished without the kind
help of Ms. Elizabeth Alexander, librarian, Mr. Bruce S. Chappell,
archivist, and their able assistants, all efficient members of the P.
K. Yonge Library of Florida History at the University of Florida.
Ms. Melissa Davis, secretary for Special Collections at the
University of Florida Libraries, greatly assisted the editing of this
work. To them, my sincerest appreciation. To Ippolita Gatti, my
wife, to my daughters M6nica and Silvana, and to my son Ignacio
Hip6lito, this work is dedicated.