DeSoto's Arkansas Trails
Standing in the March snows of 1542 just below the White River crossing at St. Charles, one of Hernando de Soto's officers reported, "As soon as it stopped snowing, he marched three days....
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Hernando de Soto
Conquest States
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Hernando de Soto
DeSoto landed in Florida in 1539. The next year his army circled thru Georgia, South and North Carolina, Tennessee, North Georgia and Alabama searching for gold along DeSoto's way to supply ships at Mobile Bay.
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