I shall be forever grateful to my uncle, William Goza of Gainesville, for introducing me to stories of Hernando de Soto and the "The Ride of the Thirty Lancers" 35 years ago; To Dr. Brent Weisman of Tampa for showing me, in the fields of Florida, the importance of archaeology, and for his insistence that I write my findings; To Mr. Lee Sultzman of Arizona for sharing his profound knowledge of Southern and Midwestern Native American cultural groups; To Dr. Douglas E. Jones of Huntsville for explaining Alabama's geography and resources while in those fields; To Dr. Lawrence A. Clayton of Tuscaloosa for his wonderful friendship and for sharing his knowledge of DeSoto's activity in Peru; To the late Dr. Frederick P. Bowser of Stanford, and Dr. Thomas J. Nechyba, of Duke, who both painstakingly criticized my work, corrected my grammar and encouraged me to proceed; To Doctors Jeffrey P. Brain of Harvard, Vernon J. Knight, Jr, and Ian W. Brown, both of the University of Alabama, for personally defining realistic considerations for me to keep in mind while tracking DeSoto; To Doctors Francis G. Crowley of Missouri, James J. Miller of Tallahassee, Lynda Norene Shaffer of Boston, and Jose Fernandez of Orlando who listened, read my manuscripts and provided me with practical constraint and realistic insight; To Mr. James M. Cooper, my friend in Tampa who cheerfully edited my work; To Mz. Cheryl Lucente, who drew all the black and white images; and to those wonderful pioneers who recorded, transported, transcribed, published, translated, annotated, and preserved the DeSoto Chronicles in our libraries; and to the fishermen, firemen, hunters, landowners and common people everywhere who showed me places I could never have otherwise seen or put into perspective with DeSoto's extraordinary journey across this wonderful Country.
An early draft of this article appeared in The Florida Anthropologist under different title.BEST FOR CONTACT NATIVE AMERICAN STUDY
CLAYTON, LAWRENCE A., VERNON JAMES KNIGHT, Jr., and EDWARD MOORE, PhD's, THE DE SOTO CHRONICLES, the Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North America in 1539-1543, in 2 Volumes, The University of Alabama Press, 1993.
These books contain all known records of the expedition of Hernando DeSoto and his Army through North America. Extensive records were kept by three officers of that expedition; all are translated therein, along with all communications between DeSoto and the King of Spain. Other eyewitness accounts are also presented.
BEST FOR PRE-CONTACT NATIVE AMERICAN STUDY
DOCTOR LYNDA NORENE SHAFFER, PhD, Historian, Tufts University, Boston, 1992, NATIVE AMERICA BEFORE 1492, the Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands, M.E. Sharp Press, Armonk, N.Y.
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