America First: 100 Stories from Our Own History

Leif the Lucky, the swamp march to Vincennes, the Pony Express — a hundred true adventure stories from American history, told the way children begged to hear them in 1920.

De Soto Discovers the Mississippi

2 pages in this part of America First.

De Soto Discovers the Mississippi

Hernando de Soto had been with Pizarro in Peru, and had seen there the temples all plated with gold. He was eager for conquests and wealth…

De Soto Discovers the Mississippi: Indians

They had not gone far before out of the forests there stepped a white man, named Juan Ortiz, who had been captive among the Indians for ten…

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