Season 2: Episode 5: Hernando de Soto

The untold history by The Hispanic Council

Oct 11, 202110:37Society & Culture

When a North American of the early 20th century heard “De Soto”, he was likely thinking about a car, because Hernando de Soto ceded his name to an automobile company. His story is a great odyssey which, though it did not...

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