7 Interesting Facts About Mississippi

The first Europeans to reach the Mississippi region were the Spanish

The famed Spanish explorer and conquistador Hernando de Soto led the first expedition into modern-day Mississippi in the early 1540s. He embarked upon this famously disastrous expedition with two goals in mind, to search for both a passage through to the Pacific coast as well as large amounts of gold, which various Native American tribes and other explorers had heard rumors of.

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