The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2 : The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Emeritus Department of History Lawrence A Clayton; Charles Hudson; Dr John E Worth
9780817308247
0-8173-0824-5
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States..
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De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Northand South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. For anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians the surviving De Soto chronicles are valued for the unique ethnological information they contain. These documents, available here in a two volume set, are the only detailed eyewitness records of the most advanced native civilization in North Americathe Mississippian culturea culture that vanished in the wake of European contact.
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