Record details

• ISBN: 1557285802
• ISBN: 9781557285805
• Physical Description: viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
• Edition: 1st pbk. print.
• Publisher: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 1999, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-306) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The Hernando de Soto expedition and Spain's effort to colonize North America / Jerald T. Milanich -- Archeology and the population of Arkansas in 1541-1543 / Dan F. Morse -- Reconstruction of the de Soto expedition route in Arkansas : the Mississippi Alluvial Plain / David H. Dye -- The Parkin archeological site and its role in determining the route of the de Soto expedition / Phyllis A. Morse -- Finding the middle passage : the Spanish journey from the Swamplands to Caddo country / Ann M. Early -- The end of the trail : reconstruction of the route of Hernando de Soto's army through southwest Arkansas and east Texas / Frank E. Schambach -- Moscoso and the route in Texas : a reconstruction / Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, James E. Bruseth, and James E. Corbin -- Identification of ethnic groups contacted by the de Soto expedition in Arkansas / Michael P. Hoffman.

Reconstructing the de Soto expedition route west of the Mississippi River : summary and contents / Charles Hudson -- Proxy data, historical method, and the de Soto expedition / David Henige -- Legends of the adelantado / George E. Lankford -- Indians and Spaniards in Arkansas : symbolic action in the sixteenth century / George Sabo III -- Language affiliations of some de Soto place names in Arkansas / Robert L. Rankin -- Caddo names in the de Soto documents / Wallace Chafe -- Death, draught, and de Soto : the bioarcheology of depopulation / Barbara A. Burnett and Katherine A. Murray -- The long-term consequences and effects of the de Soto entrada on aboriginal Caddoan populations / Timothy K. Perttula.

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Subject:

Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542 > Congresses.
Arkansas > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Congresses.
Arkansas > History > Congresses.
Texas > Discovery and exploration > Spanish > Congresses.
Texas > History > To 1846 > Congresses.
Arkansas > Histoire > Congrès.
Texas > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1846 > Congrès.
Soto, Hernando de, approximately 1500-1542
Discoveries in geography > Spanish.
Arkansas.
Texas.

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Conference papers and proceedings.
History.