La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West - Francis Parkman

La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

By Francis Parkman

  • Release Date: 2015-06-14
  • Genre: History

Description

The Spaniards discovered the Mississippi. De Soto was buried beneath its waters; and it was down its muddy current that his followers fled from the Eldorado of their dreams, transformed to a wilderness of misery and death. The discovery was never used, and was well-nigh forgotten. On early Spanish maps, the Mississippi is often indistinguishable from other affluents of the Gulf. A century passed after De Soto's journeyings in the South, before a French explorer reached a northern tributary of the great river...