THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
THE PROBLEM WITH FAMOUS EXPLORERS
Famous explorers dominate popular history because their names are easy to remember.
De Soto is one of those names.
But focusing entirely on him creates a distortion.
It turns a multiethnic encounter into the biography of one European man.
The more interesting question is not simply:
Where did de Soto go?
It is:
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