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The De Soto Chronicles: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543

Book information

Publisher
University Alabama Press
Year
1995
ISBN
0817308245, 9780817308247
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (78310347 bytes)
Volume
1 + 2
Pages
1200\1208
Time added
2015-03-24 11:35:55

Description

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. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and 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 America—the Mississippian culture—a culture that vanished in the wake of European contact.

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