Editing DeWitt County, Texas (section)

===Explorers===

The first European visitors to the county are thought to have been<ref name="Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition">{{cite book | last =Cabeza de Vaca | first =Alvar Núnez| title =Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition | publisher =Penguin Classics | year =2002 | isbn =   978-0-14-243707-0}}</ref> [[Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca]], [[Alonso del Castillo Maldonado]], [[Andrés Dorantes de Carranza]], and his slave [[Estevanico]] of the ill-fated 1528 [[Narváez expedition]]. French explorer [[René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle]]<ref name="René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle">{{Handbook of Texas | name=René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle | id=fla04|author=Weddle, Robert S |  retrieved=May 10, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref><ref name="The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687">{{cite book | last =Joutel | first =Henri| title =The La Salle Expedition to Texas: The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687 | publisher = Texas State Historical Assn | year =1998 | isbn =  978-0-87611-165-9}}</ref> is believed to have crossed the county on his way westward from [[Victoria County, Texas|Victoria County]]; and while La Bahia<ref name="La Bahía">{{Handbook of Texas | name=La Bahía | id=exl01|  retrieved=May 10, 2010}} Texas State Historical Association</ref> was a common route, no evidence of any settlements exist before the Anglo homesteaders.