California Frontier - A History Podcast
Prof. Damian Bacich takes you on a journey into the fascinating early history of California and the West. Listen to stories and interviews with scholars, experts and people passionate about a time when California was the frontier of empire and imagination.
California Frontier - A History Podcast
The Enigmatic Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo
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Damian Bacich, Ph.D.
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Season 3
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Episode 21
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo is best known for being the first European to successfully navigate the Pacific coast of what is today California to points north of the San Francisco Bay.
During the voyage, he and his men disembarked at several points and made direct contact with the Native American inhabitants of the coast and Channel Islands.
His and his men's account of their voyage was also the first written description of the West Coast of North America and its peoples.
Episode web page: https://www.californiafrontier.net/juan-rodriguez-cabrillo/
Mentioned in this episode:
Discovering Cabrillo by Harry Kelsey
During the voyage, he and his men disembarked at several points and made direct contact with the Native American inhabitants of the coast and Channel Islands.
His and his men's account of their voyage was also the first written description of the West Coast of North America and its peoples.
Episode web page: https://www.californiafrontier.net/juan-rodriguez-cabrillo/
Mentioned in this episode:
Discovering Cabrillo by Harry Kelsey
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