S1 E6_DeSoto was a Psycho

Hosted byEd Barnhart

From 1539 to 1542, Hernando de Soto led an army of Spanish conquistadors through what is now the southeastern United States.  What his men saw and documented during those three years was amazing.  What they did was psychotic.
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