Early Texas

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Across
  1. 2. Spanish fort built to protect missions
  2. 4. Explorer who survived nearly eight years among Native tribes
  3. 7. Mission later known as the Alamo
  4. 8. Island where Cabeza de Vaca was shipwrecked
  5. 9. Religious and cultural centers built by the Spanish
  6. 11. Spanish word for cowboy
Down
  1. 1. Native group famous for riding horses and raiding
  2. 3. Explorer who mapped the Gulf Coast in 1519
  3. 4. Native group known for farming corn, beans, and squash
  4. 5. Tribe that lived along the Gulf Coast and fished
  5. 6. French explorer who built Fort St. Louis
  6. 10. City that became the most important Spanish settlement