Hernan DeSoto claims the southeast
(Florida, the Carolinas, and west to Texas) for Spain. click here for more
![An Artist 's Depiction Of De Soto](/media/54956/an_artist_s_depiction_of_desoto_500x325.jpg)
An artist's depiction of Hernan DeSoto 'discovering' the
Mississippi River in 1540. DeSoto died on the banks of the
river, in 1542, in the modern state of Arkansas.
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