THE NATIVE VILLAGE THAT HID HERNANDO DE SOTO’S FIRST CAMP IN AMERICA
It was vulnerable.
That vulnerability influenced how Native communities interacted with it.
DE SOTO’S DEATH
De Soto eventually reached the Mississippi River.
In 1542 he died after becoming ill with fever.
His death did not end the expedition immediately.
His men continued.
But the original ambition of finding enormous wealth had failed.
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