Guide to the Map of the Route of Hernando DeSoto through the Southern States MSS.3428
DeSoto, Hernando
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
June 2011
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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Map of the Route of Hernando DeSoto through the Southern States [photocopy]
- Unit ID:
MSS.3428
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
1.0 Linear feet
- Dates:
after 1934
- Abstract:
Photocopy of a map and pictures depicting the route of Hernando DeSoto's expedition through the Southern States between 1539 and 1543.
- Access Restrictions:
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None
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Unknown
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Map of the Route of Hernando DeSoto Through the Southern States, 1539-1543, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Martha Bace, 2011
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a photocopy of a map and pictures depicting the route of Hernando DeSoto's expedition through the Southern States between 1539 and 1543. The map and pictures were taken from the 1691 drawings of Jacobo LeMoyne, taken from the accounts of Hernandez de Biedma and others, and was compiled by John R. Fordyce and drawn by Kermit Roosevelt Ray in 1934.
Biographical/Historical note
Hernando de Soto (c.1496/1497–1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who, while leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, was the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River. A vast undertaking, de Soto's North American expedition ranged throughout the southeastern United States searching for gold and a passage to China. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River in Arkansas or Louisiana.
Source: Wikipedia contributors. "Hernando de Soto." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 12 Jun. 2011. Web. 29 Jun. 2011.
Map Box SC0078 Oversize Folder 3428.01