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