The confrontation between Desoto and the Chickasaws in 1541has a couple of curious log entries made by two of the men chronicling the event. A Portuguese chronicler and a Spanish chronicler mention that there was a Spanish woman attached to the expedition. Those men also recorded that the woman was burned to death trying to retrieve a string of pearls from her lodging when the Chickasaws drove the Spaniards out of their Mississippi home lands.Those...