Harry James Carman

An 1896 textbook includes chapters on Indians, Norsemen, Columbus, America's Vespuccius and Balboa, Sir Francis Drake and Captain John Smith in Virginia, but no Ponce and no Florida.

As he notes later, quote, Even when the Spanish get credit, as in Harry J. Carman's 1967 A History of the American People, a negative slant prevails.

Quoting Carman, quote, In Florida, St. Augustine was the only important town founded by the Spanish.

It had a population of about 5,000 when the English took control of it in 1763, end quote.