American Pioneers and Patriots: Ferdinand De Soto: The Discoverer of the Mississippi

by John S.C. Abbott

Book Overview

These are wild and wondrous adventures which I wish here to record. I have spared no pains in obtaining the most accurate information which the records of those days have transmitted to us. It is as wrong to traduce the dead as the living. If one should be careful not to write a line which dying he would wish to blot, he should also endeavor to write of the departed in so candid and paternal a spirit, while severely just to the truth of history, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1460987225
• ISBN13: 9781460987223
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.0"