Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi. John S. C. Abbott

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       John S. C. Abbott

      Ferdinand De Soto, The Discoverer of the Mississippi

      American Pioneers and Patriots

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4057664581792

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       NEW YORK: DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY. 1873.

       PREFACE.

       CHAPTER I.

       Childhood and Youth.

       CHAPTER II.

       The Spanish Colony.

       CHAPTER III.

       Life at Darien.

       CHAPTER IV.

       Demoniac Reign.

       CHAPTER V.

       The Invasion of Peru.

       CHAPTER VI.

       The Atrocities of Pizarro.

       CHAPTER VII.

       The Execution of the Inca, and Embarrassments of De Soto.

       CHAPTER VIII.

       De Soto Returns to Spain.

       CHAPTER IX.

       The Landing in Florida.

       CHAPTER X.

       The March to Ochile.

       CHAPTER XI.

       The Conspiracy and its Consequences.

       CHAPTER XII.

       Winter Quarters.

       CHAPTER XIII.

       Lost in the Wilderness.

       CHAPTER XIV.

       The Indian Princess.

       CHAPTER XV.

       The Dreadful Battle of Mobila.

       CHAPTER XVI.

       Days of Darkness.

       CHAPTER XVII.

       The Discovery of the Mississippi.

       CHAPTER XVIII.

       Vagrant Wanderings.

       CHAPTER XIX.

       Death of De Soto.

       THE END.

       CATALOGUE OF Standard & Miscellaneous Books

       Dodd & Mead ,

NEW YORK:

       DODD & MEAD, No. 762 BROADWAY.

       1873.

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      Mr. Theodore Irving, in his valuable history of the "Conquest of Florida," speaking of the astonishing achievements of the Spanish Cavaliers, in the dawn of the sixteenth century says:

      "Of all the enterprises undertaken in this spirit of daring adventure, none has surpassed, for hardihood and variety of incident, that of the renowned Hernando de Soto, and his band of cavaliers. It was poetry put in action. It was the knight-errantry of the old world carried into the depths of the American wilderness. Indeed the personal adventures, the feats of individual prowess, the picturesque description of steel-clad cavaliers, with lance and helm and prancing steed, glittering through the wildernesses of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and the prairies of the Far West, would seem to us mere fictions of romance, did they not come to us recorded in matter of fact narratives of contemporaries, and corroborated by minute and daily memoranda of eye-witnesses."

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