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/Home/Historical Studies/History/Age of Exploration/New World/DeSoto, Hernando Hernando DeSoto's Trails through North America Votes:0 American Conquest Written by Donald E. Sheppard, Art by Cheryl Lucente ©2007 in Wi-Fi ALL TRAILS by State Introduction DeSoto DeVaca INDEX Glossary References Acknowledgements OLD MAPS Geographic Reality King's Concession First Published in the Florida Anthropologist Links Spanish Conquistadors wrote the oldest history we have of America, but told a different story than the one we learned in school. Fresh documents make it possible for us to track and study the Hernando DeSoto Expedition, Spain's longest journey into Native America. This Site traces their trails, highways today, to villages which became our cities in Sixteen States . The DeSoto Chronicles * were published by 3 Expedition Officers DIRECT OBSERVATIONS BY the King's Agent Fernandez de Biedma , DeSoto's Personal Secretary Rodr Read More Go to Site The Southeastern Trek Of Hernando DeSoto Votes:0 Pre Alabama The Southeastern Trek Of Hernando DeSoto Alabama 1965 Circa Selma To Montgomery ALABAMA "... and on Friday the Governor (with his riders) entered Coosa, one of the best and most abundant provinces we found" (located in a large valley on the south side of Sand Mountain; DeSoto had passed through Valley Head where the army camped before catching-up the next day. "Coosa" means "The Place of the Birch" in Cherokee; this place was not the main village of Coosa, but one established to accomodate the Spaniards along their way between the Carolina mountains and Mobile Bay). "Its chief (Coosa, "Lord" of the Georgia "Cherokee," given that he collected tribute from them, spoke a Muskogean dialect, unlike the Cherokee Iroquoian languag Read More Go to Site Who is Hernando de Soto? Votes:0 Who is Hernando de Soto? THE hideous story of the disastrous adventures of Narvaez and his companions in Florida seems sufficient to have deterred others from undertaking further enterprises among the fierce Apalachians, either for gold or dominion. But the effect was otherwise. Spanish chivalry had been stimulated, and thirst for glory had been intensified by the valorous exploits of the discoverers and conquerors in America, and the more hazardous the performance the greater was the renown. The very difficulties in the way seemed to sharpen desire; and when Hernando de Soto, who, as one of the conquerors of Peru under Pizarro, had returned to Spain with great wealth and reputation, proposed an expedition for the conquest of Florida, hundreds of young men, the flower of the Spanish and Po Read More Go to Site

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