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Subject: Rodriguez-Chamuscado Missionary Expedition Thu 07 Jun 2007, 1:04 am
June 6, 1581
On this day, the Rodriguez-Chamuscado Missionary Expedition began to move northward -- through Mexico -- toward the Rio Grande, present-day El Paso, and to points north and west .... likely passing through the Panhandle of Texas.
Source: 'Chronology of Texas History,' by Donald W. Whisenhunt. Burnet: Eakin Press, 1982, page 2.