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A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...
Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
Quigualtam or Quilgualtanqui was a powerful Native American Plaquemine culture polity encountered in 1542–1543 by the Hernando de Soto expedition. The capital of the polity and its chieftain also bore the same name; although neither the chief nor his settlements were ever visited in person by the expedition.
The site became of relevance to the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto because it was said to be a top producer of silver, gold, and pearls. When the Lady of Cofitachequi presented De Soto with minerals original to her territory, only copper, mica, and pearls were observed.
He was perhaps best known for his extensive research of Hernando de Soto's 1539–1543 expedition across the Southeast. In 1984, Hudson and fellow researchers Marvin T. Smith and Chester DePratter mapped the route taken by de Soto's expedition by using written accounts of expedition members, and matching them with geographic features and the ...
DeSoto County, Florida (named after the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto) DeSoto County, Mississippi (named after the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto) Del Norte County, California ("Northern" in Spanish, also the northernmost county in California. This county was actually named and pioneered by portuguese settlers, and is pronounced ...
de Soto route through the Caddo area, with known archaeological phases marked. The Tula were possibly a Caddoan people, but this is not certain. Based on the descriptions of the various chroniclers, "Tula Province", or their homeland, may have been at the headwaters of the Ouachita, Caddo, Little Missouri, Saline, and Cossatot Rivers in Arkansas.
De Soto was platted in 1857 and named after Hernando de Soto (c. 1496/1497–1542), Spanish conquistador. [5] A post office has been in operation at De Soto since 1858. [6]The city is known as "Fountain City" because of its numerous artesian wells.