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DeSoto Discovers the Mississippi

DeSoto Discovers the Mississippi

Narrator: "In the spring of 1541 the army resumed their march. In early May they reached the bank of the widest river they had ever encountered."
Photo credit: Still frame from "Hernando DeSoto in America." Original video provided courtesy of the DeSoto National Memorial.

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