The question was: what was the first literary work in the Spanish Language that was published in the United States?
The first literary work in Spanish published in the United States was José Agustín Caballero’s Sermón fúnebre en elogio del excelentísimo señor Don Christóbal Colón in 1803.
The question (& answer) were found on p. 153 of Hispanic Firsts by Nicolas Kanellos. The book was published in 1997 by Visible Ink Press.
