In this Book
- The De Soto Chronicles Vol 1 & 2: The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
- Book
- 1995
- Published by: The University of Alabama Press
1993 Choice Outstanding Academic Book, sponsored by Choice Magazine.
The De Soto expedition was the first major encounter of Europeans with North American Indians in the eastern half of the United States. De Soto and his army of over 600 men, including 200 cavalry, spent four years traveling through what is now Florida, Georgia, Alabama, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas. For anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians the surviving De Soto chronicles are valued for the unique ethnological information they contain. These documents, available here in a two volume set, are the only detailed eyewitness records of the most advanced native civilization in North America—the Mississippian culture—a culture that vanished in the wake of European contact.
Table of Contents
- Volume 1
- Title Page
- p. ii
- Illustrations
- p. xiv
- Board Advisors
- pp. xv-xvi
- Contributors
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xxiii-xxvi
- Notes on Translations and Names
- pp. xxvii-xxx
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- FOREWORD to [Roberston volume one]
- pp. 21-xx
- PREFACE to [Roberston Volume One]
- pp. 23-26
- PREFACE to Roberston Volume Two
- pp. 27-32
- NOTES TO THE ELVAS NARRATIVE
- pp. 173-220
- RELATION OF THE ISLAND OF FLORIDA
- pp. 221-222
- RELATION OF THE ISLAND OF FLORIDA ... 15392
- pp. 225-246
- The Canete Fragment
- pp. 307-310
- PARALLEL ITINERARY OF THE EXPEDITION
- pp. 311-354
- El Adelantado Don Hernando de Soto
- pp. 382-420
- Hernando de Soto
- pp. 421-459
- Introduction
- pp. 463-498
- INDIAN PROPER NAMES IN THE FOUR NARRATIVES
- pp. 499-502
- Bibliography
- pp. 515-550
- Volume II
- Title Page
- pp. 610-611
- Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Garcilaso de La Vega, The Inca
- pp. 1-24
- LA FLORIDA
- pp. 25-30
- PREFACE TO THE READER
- pp. 53-58
- GENEALOGY OF GARCI PEREZ DE VARGAS
- pp. 563-576
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1995