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The Expedition Chronicles
These are the four historic records of the expedition. Numerous editions of various translations have been made. These are examples commonly available.
Luys Hernandez de Biedma
1922 Relation. In Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto, translated by Buckingham Smith, edited by Edward G. Bourne. Allerton Publishers, N.Y.
This may have been an official account of the expedition. It was in the Spanish archives by 1544. The first English translation appeared in 1850.
Gentleman of Elvas
1968	Narratives of De Soto in the Conquest of Florida.
Palmetto Books, Gainsville, Florida.
Narrative by an expedition member, first printed in 1557 in Portugal.
Garcilasco de laVega, The Inca
1962 The Florida of the Inca, translated by John G. Varner and Jeannette J. Varner. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Garcilasco was not an expedition member. His account comes from the oral and written stories of several expedition members. Garcilasco's account was finished in 1591 and printed first in 1605.
Rodrigo Ranjel
1922	Narrative. Narratives of the Career of Hernando De Soto,
translated by Buckingham Smith, edited by Edward G. Bourne, Allerton Publishers, N.Y.
A diary written by De Soto's private secretary. The original was lost, but all except the final chapters were published first in Oviedo's "Historia..." in 1851. First complete translation in English in 1904.
Studies of De Soto in Arkansas
John R. Swanton, Editor
1939	Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission.
House Document 71, 76th Congress, 1st Session, Washington, D.C. Reprinted by Smithsonian Institution Press
Charles Hudson, Jr.
1985	De Soto in Arkansas: A Brief Synopsis. Fieldnotes, Arkansas
Archeological Society Newsletter, No. 205, pp. 3-12.
Dan F. Morse and Phyllis A. Morse
1983 Archeology of the Central Mississippi Valley, pp. 305-315.
Academic Press, N.Y.
Philip Phillips, James A. Ford and James B. Griffin
1951	Archeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley
1940-1947. Vol. XXV, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Reprinted in 1968 by Kraus Reprint Corporation.
This Leaflet was funded in part by a grant from the Arkansas Endowment for the Humanities