/johnny
Whoa! Nice find!
Perhaps Pizarro lost one of his men to a walkabout...
Since West/Southwest Texas and New Mexico was already home to Spanish ranchers from Mexico in the mid-late 1700s-my ancestors were some of them-it would seem logical that explorers and others were wandering around there many, many years earlier exploring, trading with the native tribes for both needed items and stuff they could trade or sell to someone else-and mapping-those settlers coming from Mexico certainly had to have maps to find where in that huge place their land was located and how to get there.
I’ll bet there is a ton of stuff like this hidden away in private collections all over the US-I hope more gets found- too bad those bits of armor can’t talk-that would be enough stories for a lot of nights by the fire...
