The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1895 - 365 pages |
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... Mississippi . Narvaez , the commander of the little fleet , soon after parted com- pany with Cabeza , and was lost . About a week later , Cabeza himself was shipwrecked , probably on the coast of Texas . He was captured by the Indians ...
... Mississippi . Narvaez , the commander of the little fleet , soon after parted com- pany with Cabeza , and was lost . About a week later , Cabeza himself was shipwrecked , probably on the coast of Texas . He was captured by the Indians ...
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... Mississippi Florida Louisiana 1539 Tampa Bay De Soto's Expedition , 1539-1542 . ( The outlines and names of States are given for convenience in tracing De Soto's course . ) " a roving company of gallant freebooters , " in search of ...
... Mississippi Florida Louisiana 1539 Tampa Bay De Soto's Expedition , 1539-1542 . ( The outlines and names of States are given for convenience in tracing De Soto's course . ) " a roving company of gallant freebooters , " in search of ...
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... Mississippi.3 Cabeza had seen one of the mouths of the river , but De Soto was probably the first civilized man that ever looked on the main body of that mighty stream which rolls for nearly three thousand miles through the heart of the ...
... Mississippi.3 Cabeza had seen one of the mouths of the river , but De Soto was probably the first civilized man that ever looked on the main body of that mighty stream which rolls for nearly three thousand miles through the heart of the ...
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... Mississippi . He had made the Indians believe that he was not a human being , but a " child of the sun , " and that death could not touch him . When the chief found that he had mysteriously dis- appeared , he asked where he was . The ...
... Mississippi . He had made the Indians believe that he was not a human being , but a " child of the sun , " and that death could not touch him . When the chief found that he had mysteriously dis- appeared , he asked where he was . The ...
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... Mississippi . But the colonists had not been well chosen . They would not work . Lane said , " they had little understanding , less discretion , and more tongue than was needful . " After less than a year's trial of the country the ...
... Mississippi . But the colonists had not been well chosen . They would not work . Lane said , " they had little understanding , less discretion , and more tongue than was needful . " After less than a year's trial of the country the ...
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