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Hernando de Soto
Born
October 27, c. 1495[1]:135
in Jerez de los Caballeros, Badajoz, Extremadura, Crown of Castile
Died
(1542-05-21)May 21, 1542 (aged 46)
Bank of Mississippi River, Present-day Ferriday, Louisiana,[2][3] North America
Nationality
Castilian
Occupation
Explorer and conquistador
Spouse(s)
Isabel De Rupodio
Signature
Hernando de Soto (c. 1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.[4]
De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, reported by various Indian tribes and earlier explorers, and a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River[5] in what is now Guachoya, Arkansas or Ferriday, Louisiana.
Contents
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1 Early life
2 Conquest of Peru
3 Return to Spain
4 De Soto's exploration of North America
4.1 Historiography
4.2 1539: Florida
4.3 1540: The Southeast
4.4 1541: Westward
4.5 Death
4.6 Return of the expedition to Mexico City
5 Effects of expedition in North America
6 Namesakes
7 See also
8 References
9 Further reading
9.1 Chronicles (in English translations)
9.2 Histories
10 External links
Early life[edit]
Hernando de Soto was born in Extremadura to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means. The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere. He was born in Jerez de los Caballeros, in the current province of Badajoz.[1]:135 Three towns—Badajoz, Barcarrota and Jerez de los Caballeros—claim to be his birthplace. He spent time as a child at each place. He stipulated in his will that his body be interred at Jerez de los Caballeros, where other members of his family were buried.[6] As he grew to adulthood, the Spanish had retaken control of the Iberian peninsula from Islamic forces. Spain and Portugal were filled with young men seeking a chance for military fame after the defeat of the Moors. With discovery of new lands (which they thought at the time to be East Asia) across the ocean to the west, young men were attracted to rumors of adventure, glory and wealth.
De Soto sailed to the New World with Pedrarias Dávila, appointed as the first Governor of Panama. In 1520 he participated in Gaspar de Espinosa's expedition to Veragua, and in 1524, he participated in the conquest of Nicaragua under Francisco Hernández de Córdoba. There he acquired an encomienda and a public office in León, Nicaragua.[1]:135
Brave leadership, unwavering loyalty, and ruthless schemes for the extortion of native villages for their captured chiefs became de Soto's hallmarks during the conquest of Central America. He gained fame as an excellent horseman, fighter, and tactician. During that time, de Soto was influenced by the achievements of Juan Ponce de León, the first European to reach Florida; Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean coast of the Americas (he called it the "South Sea" on the south coast of Panama); and Ferdinand Magellan, who first sailed that ocean to East Asia.
Conquest of Peru[edit]
In 1530, de Soto became a regidor of León, Nicaragua. He led an expedition up the coast of the Yucatán Peninsula searching for a passage between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean to enable trade with the Orient, the richest market in the world. Failing that, and without means to explore further, de Soto, upon Pedro Arias Dávila's death, left his estates in Nicaragua. Bringing his own men on ships which he hired, de Soto joined Francisco Pizarro at his first base of Tumbes shortly before departure for the interior of present-day Peru.[7]:143
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Pizarro quickly made de Soto one of his captains.[1]:171
When Pizarro and his men first encountered the army of the Inca Atahualpa at Cajamarca, Pizarro sent de Soto with fifteen men to invite Atahualpa to a meeting. When Pizarro's men attacked Atahualpa and his guard the next day (the Battle of Cajamarca), de Soto led one of the three groups of mounted soldiers. The Spanish captured Atahualpa. De Soto was sent to the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.[8]
During 1533, the Spanish held Atahualpa captive in Cajamarca for months while his subjects paid for his ransom by filling a room with gold and silver objects. During this captivity, de Soto became friendly with Atahualpa and taught him to play chess. By the time the ransom had been completed, the Spanish became alarmed by rumors of an Incan army advancing on Cajamarca. Pizarro sent de Soto with 200 soldiers to scout for the rumored army.[9]
While de Soto was gone, the Spanish in Cajamarca decided to kill Atahualpa to prevent his rescue. De Soto returned to report that he found no signs of an army in the area. After executing Atahualpa, Pizarro and his men headed to Cuzco, the capital of the Incan Empire. As the Spanish force approached Cuzco, Pizarro sent his brother Hernando and de Soto ahead with 40 men. The advance guard fought a pitched battle with Incan troops in front of the city, but the battle had ended before Pizarro arrived with the rest of the Spanish party. The Incan army withdrew during the night. The Spanish plundered Cuzco, where they found much gold and silver. As a mounted soldier, de Soto received a share of the plunder that made him very wealthy. It represented riches from Atahualpa's camp, his ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco.[10]
On the road to Cuzco, Manco Inca Yupanqui, a brother of Atahualpa, had joined Pizarro. Manco had been hiding from Atahualpa in fear of his life, and was happy to gain Pizarro's protection. Pizarro arranged for Manco to be installed as the Inca leader. De Soto joined Manco in a campaign to eliminate the Incan armies under Quizquiz, who had been loyal to Atahualpa.[11]:66–67,70–73
By 1534, de Soto was serving as lieutenant governor of Cuzco while Pizarro was building his new capital (which later became known as Lima) on the coast. In 1535 King Charles awarded Diego de Almagro, Francisco Pizarro's partner, the governorship of the southern portion of the Incan Empire. When de Almagro made plans to explore and conquer the southern part of the Incan empire (Chile), de Soto applied to be his second-in-command, but de Almagro turned him down. De Soto packed up his treasure and returned to Spain.[1]:367,370–372,375,380–381,396
Return to Spain[edit]
De Soto returned to Spain in 1536,[1]:135 with wealth gathered from plunder in the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. He was admitted into the prestigious Order of Santiago and "granted the right to conquer Florida".[1]:135 His share was awarded to him by the King of Spain, and he received 724 marks of gold, 17,740 pesos.[12] He married Isabel de Bobadilla, daughter of Pedrarias Dávila and a relative of a confidante of Queen Isabella.
De Soto petitioned King Charles to lead the government of Guatemala with "permission to create discovery in the South Sea." He was granted the governorship of Cuba instead. De Soto was expected to colonize the North American continent for Spain within four years, for which his family would be given a sizable piece of land.
Fascinated by the stories of Cabeza de Vaca, who had survived years in North America after becoming a castaway and had just returned to Spain, de Soto selected 620 Spanish and Portuguese volunteers, including some of mixed-race African descent known as Atlantic creoles, to accompany him to govern Cuba and colonize North America. Averaging 24 years of age, the men embarked from Havana on seven of the King's ships and two caravels of de Soto's. With tons of heavy armour and equipment, they also carried more than 500 livestock, including 237 horses and 200 pigs, for their planned four-year continental expedition.
De Soto wrote a new will before embarking on his travels. On 10 May 1539, he wrote in his will:
"That a chapel be erected within the Church of San Miguel in Jerez de Los Caballeros, Spain, where De Soto grew up, at a cost of 2,000 ducats, with an altarpiece featuring the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Conception, that his tomb be covered in a fine black broadcloth topped by a red cross of the Order of the Knights of Santiago, and on special occasions a pall of black velvet with the De Soto coat of arms be placed on the altar; that a chaplain be hired at the salary of 12,000 maravedis to perform five masses every week for the souls of De Soto, his parents and wife; that thirty masses be said for him the day his body was interred, and twenty for our Lady of the Conception, ten for the Holy Ghost, sixty for souls in purgatory and masses for many others as well; that 150000 maravedis be given annually to his wife Isabel for her needs and an equal amount used yearly to marry off three orphan damsels...the poorest that can be found," who would then assist his wife and also serve to burnish the memory of De Soto as a man of charity and substance.[13]
De Soto's exploration of North America[edit]
A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997.[14]
Historiography[edit]
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Historians have worked to trace the route of de Soto's expedition in North America, a controversial process over the years[citation needed]. Local politicians vied to have their localities associated with the expedition. The most widely used version of "De Soto's Trail" comes from a study commissioned by the Congress of the United States. A committee chaired by the anthropologist John R. Swanton published The Final Report of the United States De Soto Expedition Commission in 1939. Among other locations, Manatee County, Florida, claims an approximate landing site for de Soto and has a national memorial recognizing that event.[15] In the early 21st century, the first part of the expedition's course, until de Soto's battle at Mabila (a small fortress town in present-day central Alabama[16]), is disputed only in minor details. His route beyond Mabila is contested. Swanton reported the de Soto trail ran from there through Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
Historians have more recently considered archeological reconstructions and the oral history of the various Native American peoples that recount the expedition[citation needed]. Most historical places have been overbuilt[citation needed]. More than 450 years have passed between the events and current history tellers, but some oral histories have been found to be highly accurate about historic events[citation needed].
The Governor Martin Site at the former Apalachee village of Anhaica, located about a mile east of the present Florida capital in Tallahassee, has been documented as definitively associated with de Soto's expedition. The Governor Martin Site was discovered by archaeologist B. Calvin Jones in March 1987.
As of 2016, the Richardson/UF Village site (8AL100) in Alachua County, west of Orange Lake, appears to have been accepted by archaeologists as the site of the town of Potano visited by the de Soto expedition. The later mission of San Buenaventura de Potano is believed to have been founded here.[17]
Many archaeologists believe the Parkin Site in northeast Arkansas was the main town for the province of Casqui, which de Soto had recorded. They base this on similarities between descriptions from the journals of the de Soto expedition and artifacts of European origin discovered at the site in the 1960s.[18][19]
Theories of de Soto's route are based on the accounts of four chroniclers of the expedition.
• The first account of the expedition to be published was by the Gentleman of Elvas, an otherwise unidentified Portuguese knight who was a member of the expedition. His chronicle was first published in 1557. An English translation by Richard Hackluyt was published in 1609.[20]
• Luys Hernández de Biedma, the King's factor (the agent responsible for the royal property) with the expedition, wrote a report which still exists. The report was filed in the royal archives in Spain in 1544. The manuscript was translated into English by Buckingham Smith and published in 1851.[21]
• De Soto's secretary, Rodrigo Ranjel, kept a diary, which has been lost. It was apparently was used by Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés in writing his La historia general y natural de las Indias. Oviedo died in 1557. The part of his work containing Ranjel's diary was not published until 1851. An English translation of Ranjel's report was published in 1904.
• The fourth chronicle is by Garcilaso de la Vega, known as El Inca (the Inca). Garcilaso de la Vega did not participate in the expedition. He wrote his account, La Florida, known in English as The Florida of the Inca, decades after the expedition, based on interviews with some survivors of the expedition. The book was first published in 1605. Historians have identified problems with using La Florida as a historical account. Milanich and Hudson warn against relying on Garcilaso, noting serious problems with the sequence and location of towns and events in his narrative. They say, "some historians regard Garcilaso's La Florida to be more a work of literature than a work of history."[22] Lankford characterizes Garcilaso's La Florida as a collection of "legend narratives", derived from a much-retold oral tradition of the survivors of the expedition.[23]
Milanich and Hudson warn that older translations of the chronicles are often "relatively free translations in which the translators took considerable liberty with the Spanish and Portuguese text."[24]
The chronicles describe de Soto's trail in relation to Havana, from which they sailed; the Gulf of Mexico, which they skirted inland then turned back to later; the Atlantic Ocean, which they approached during their second year; high mountains, which they traversed immediately thereafter; and dozens of other geographic features along their way, such as large rivers and swamps, at recorded intervals. Given that the natural geography has not changed much since de Soto's time, scholars have analyzed those journals with modern topographic intelligence, to develop a more precise account of the De Soto Trail.[14][25]
1539: Florida[edit]
Library of Congress' engraving.
The Spanish caption reads:
"HERNANDO DE SOTO: Extremaduran, one of the discoverers and conquerors of Peru: he travelled across all of Florida and defeated its previously invincible natives, he died on his expedition in the year 1542 at the age of 42".
In May 1539, de Soto landed nine ships with over 620 men[26] and 220 horses in an area generally identified as south Tampa Bay. Historian Robert S. Weddle has suggested that he landed at either Charlotte Harbor or San Carlos Bay.[27] He named the land as Espíritu Santo after the Holy Spirit. The ships carried priests, craftsmen, engineers, farmers, and merchants; some with their families, some from Cuba, most from Europe and Africa. Few of the men had traveled before outside of Spain, or even away from their home villages.
Near de Soto's port, the party found Juan Ortiz, a Spaniard, living with the Mocoso people. Ortiz had been captured by the Uzita while searching for the lost Narváez expedition; he later escaped to Mocoso. Ortiz had learned the Timucua language and served as an interpreter to de Soto as he traversed the Timucuan-speaking areas on his way to Apalachee.[28]
Ortiz established a unique method for guiding the expedition and communicating with the various tribes, who spoke many dialects and languages. He recruited guides from each tribe along the route. A chain of communication was established whereby a guide who had lived in close proximity to another tribal area was able to pass his information and language on to a guide from a neighboring area. Because Ortiz refused to dress as an hidalgo Spaniard, other officers questioned his motives. De Soto remained loyal to Ortiz, allowing him the freedom to dress and live among his friends. Another important guide was the seventeen-year-old boy Perico, or Pedro, from modern-day Georgia. He spoke several of the local tribes' languages and could communicate with Ortiz. Perico was taken as a guide in 1540. The Spanish had also captured other Indians, whom they used as slaves.[clarification needed] Perico was treated better due to his value to the Spaniards.
The expedition traveled north, exploring Florida's West Coast, and encountering native ambushes and conflicts along the way. De Soto's first winter encampment was at Anhaica, the capital of the Apalachee people. It is one of the few places on the route where archaeologists have found physical traces of the expedition. The chroniclers described this settlement as being near the "Bay of Horses". The bay was named for events of the preceding Narváez expedition. Starving and struggling to escape, the decreasing number of survivors killed and ate their horses while building boats for escape by the Gulf of Mexico.
1540: The Southeast[edit]
From their winter location in the western panhandle of Florida, having heard of gold being mined "toward the sun's rising," the expedition turned north-east through what is now the modern state of Georgia.[29][30] In 2009 archaeological finds were made at a remote, privately owned site near the Ocmulgee River in Telfair County. These included nine glass trade beads, some of which bear a chevron pattern believed to be indicative of the de Soto expedition. Six metal objects were also found, including a silver pendant and some iron tools.[31][32]
The expedition continued on to present-day South Carolina. There the expedition was received by a female chief (Cofitachequi), who turned over her tribe's pearls, food and other goods to the Spanish soldiers. The expedition found no gold, however, other than pieces from an earlier coastal expedition (presumably that of Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón.)
De Soto's men burn Mabila, illustration by Herb Roe
De Soto headed north into the Appalachian Mountains of present-day western North Carolina, where he spent a month resting the horses while his men searched for gold. De Soto next entered eastern Tennessee. At this point, De Soto either continued along the Tennessee River to enter Alabama from the north (according to John R. Swanton), or turned south and entered northern Georgia (according to Charles M. Hudson). The route that Swanton proposed in 1939 is still generally accepted by most archaeologists and by the U.S. government as the route of the de Soto expedition.[citation needed].
De Soto's expedition spent another month in the Coosa chiefdom, believed to have been connected to the Mississippian culture, before turning south toward the Gulf of Mexico to meet two ships bearing fresh supplies from Havana. Along the way, de Soto was led into Mauvila (or Mabila), a fortified city in southern Alabama.[33] The Mobilian tribe, under Chief Tuskaloosa, ambushed de Soto's army.[33] Other sources suggest de Soto's men were attacked after attempting to force their way into a cabin occupied by Tuskaloosa.[34] The Spaniards fought their way out, and retaliated by burning the town to the ground. During the nine-hour encounter, about 200 Spaniards died, and 150 more were badly wounded, according to the chronicler Elvas.[35] Twenty more died during the next few weeks. They killed an estimated 2,000-6,000 warriors at Mabila, making the battle one of the bloodiest in recorded North American history.[36]
The Spaniards won a Pyrrhic victory, as they had lost most of their possessions and nearly one-quarter of their horses. The Spaniards were wounded and sickened, surrounded by enemies and without equipment in an unknown territory.[34] Fearing that word of this would reach Spain if his men reached the ships at Mobile Bay, de Soto led them away from the Gulf Coast. He moved into inland Mississippi, most likely near present-day Tupelo, where they spent the winter.
1541: Westward[edit]
Discovery of the Mississippi by William H. Powell (1823–1879) is a Romantic depiction of de Soto seeing the Mississippi River for the first time. It hangs in the United States Capitol rotunda.
In the spring of 1541, de Soto demanded 200 men as porters from the Chickasaw[citation needed]. They refused his demand and attacked the Spanish camp during the night. The Spaniards lost about 40 men and the remainder of their limited equipment. According to participating chroniclers, the expedition could have been destroyed at this point, but the Chickasaw let them go[citation needed].
On May 8, 1541, de Soto's troops reached the Mississippi River.[4]
De Soto had little interest in the river, which in his view was an obstacle to his mission. There has been considerable research into the exact location where de Soto crossed the Mississippi River. A commission appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 determined that Sunflower Landing, Mississippi was the "most likely" crossing place. De Soto and his men spent a month building flatboats, and crossed the river at night to avoid the Native Americans who were patrolling the river. De Soto had hostile relations with the native people in this area.[37][38]
In the late 20th century, research suggests other locations may have been the site of de Soto's crossing, including three locations in Mississippi: Commerce, Friars Point, and Walls, as well as Memphis, Tennessee.[39] Once across the river, the expedition continued traveling westward through modern-day Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. They wintered in Autiamique, on the Arkansas River.[citation needed]
In 1541, the expedition became the first Europeans recorded as seeing what Native Americans referred to as the Valley of the Vapors, now called Hot Springs, Arkansas. Members of many tribes had gathered at the valley over many years to enjoy the healing properties of the thermal springs. The tribes had developed agreements to put aside their weapons and partake of the healing waters in peace while in the valley. De Soto and his men stayed just long enough to claim the area for Spain.[citation needed]
After a harsh winter, the Spanish expedition decamped and moved on more erratically. Their interpreter Juan Ortiz had died, making it more difficult for them to get directions and food sources, and generally to communicate with the Natives. The expedition went as far inland as the Caddo River, where they clashed with a Native American tribe called the Tula in October 1541.[40] The Spaniards characterized them as the most skilled and dangerous warriors they had encountered.[41] This may have happened in the area of present-day Caddo Gap, Arkansas (a monument to the de Soto expedition was erected in that community). Eventually, the Spaniards returned to the Mississippi River.
Death[edit]
Burial of de Soto
De Soto died of a fever on May 21, 1542, in the native village of Guachoya (historical sources disagree as to whether de Soto died near present-day McArthur, Arkansas, or in Louisiana)[42] on the western bank of the Mississippi.[43] Louisiana erected a historical marker.
Before his death, de Soto chose Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, his former maestro de campo (or field commander), to assume command of the expedition.[44] At the time of death, de Soto owned four Indian slaves, three horses, and 700 hogs.[45]
De Soto had encouraged the local natives to believe that he was a deity sun god (as a ploy to gain their submission without conflict). Some of the natives had already become skeptical of de Soto's deity claims. But his men were anxious to conceal his death. The actual site of his burial is not known. According to one source, de Soto's men hid his corpse in blankets weighted with sand and sank it in the middle of the Mississippi River during the night.[42]
Return of the expedition to Mexico City[edit]
De Soto's expedition had explored La Florida for three years without finding the expected treasures or a hospitable site for colonization. They had lost nearly half their men, and most of the horses. By this time, the soldiers were wearing animal skins for clothing. Many were injured and in poor health. The leaders came to a consensus (although not total) to end the expedition and try to find a way home, either down the Mississippi River, or overland across Texas to the Spanish colony of Mexico City.
They decided that building boats would be too difficult and time-consuming, and that navigating the Gulf of Mexico too risky, so they headed overland to the southwest. Eventually they reached a region in present-day Texas that was dry. The native populations were made up mostly of subsistence hunter-gatherers. The soldiers found no villages to raid for food, and the army was still too large to live off the land. They were forced to backtrack to the more developed agricultural regions along the Mississippi, where they began building seven bergantínes, or brigantines.[44] They melted down all the iron, including horse tackle and slave shackles, to make nails for the boats. They survived through the winter, and the spring floods delayed them another two months. By July they set off on their makeshift boats down the Mississippi for the coast.
Taking about two weeks to make the journey, the expedition encountered hostile tribes along the whole course. Natives followed the boats in canoes, shooting arrows at the soldiers for days on end as they drifted through their territory. The Spanish had no effective offensive weapons on the water, as their crossbows had long ceased working. They relied on armor and sleeping mats to block the arrows. About 11 Spaniards were killed along this stretch and many more wounded.
On reaching the mouth of the Mississippi, they stayed close to the Gulf shore heading south and west. After about 50 days, they made it to the Pánuco River and the Spanish frontier town of Pánuco. There they rested for about a month. During this time many of the Spaniards, having safely returned and reflecting on their accomplishments, decided they had left La Florida too soon. There were some fights within the company, leading to some deaths. But, after they reached Mexico City and Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza offered to lead another expedition to La Florida, few of the survivors volunteered. Of the recorded 700 participants at the start, between 300 and 350 survived (311 is a commonly accepted figure). Most of the men stayed in the New World, settling in Mexico, Peru, Cuba, and other Spanish colonies.
Effects of expedition in North America[edit]
Reverse of a $500 Federal Reserve Note (and the earlier BEP proof engraving) based on William H. Powell's painting Discovery of the Mississippi.
From the point of view of the Spanish, de Soto's excursion to Florida was a failure. They acquired neither gold nor prosperity and founded no colonies. But the expedition had several major consequences.
It contributed to the process of the Columbian Exchange. For instance, some of the swine brought by de Soto escaped and became the ancestors of razorback pigs in the southeastern United States.[46][47][48][49][50]
De Soto was instrumental in contributing to the development of a hostile relationship between many Native American tribes and Europeans. When his expedition encountered hostile natives in the new lands, more often than not it was his men who instigated the clashes.[51]
More devastating than the battles were the diseases carried chronically by the members of the expedition. Because the indigenous people lacked the immunity which the Europeans had acquired through generations of exposure to these Eurasian diseases, the Native Americans suffered epidemics of illness after exposure to such diseases as measles, smallpox, and chicken pox. Several areas that the expedition crossed became depopulated by disease caused by contact with the Europeans. Seeing the high fatalities and devastation caused, many natives fled the populated areas for the surrounding hills and swamps. In some areas, the social structure changed because of high population losses due to epidemics.[52]
The records of the expedition contributed greatly to European knowledge about the geography, biology, and ethnology of the New World. The de Soto expedition's descriptions of North American natives are the earliest-known source of information about the societies in the Southeast. They are the only European description of the culture and habits of North American native tribes before these peoples encountered other Europeans. De Soto's men were both the first and nearly the last Europeans to witness the villages and civilization of the Mississippian culture.
De Soto's expedition led the Spanish crown to reconsider Spain's attitude toward the colonies north of Mexico. He claimed large parts of North America for Spain. The Spanish concentrated their missions in the state of Florida and along the Pacific coast.
Namesakes[edit]
DeSoto Deluxe automobile insignia from early 1950s.
Many parks, towns, counties, and institutions have been named after Hernando de Soto, to include:
De Soto National Forest, in Mississippi
De Soto National Memorial, near Bradenton, Florida, marks the possible location of Espiritu Santo, the point of disembarkation for the expedition.
DeSoto State Park, Alabama
DeSoto Caverns, Alabama
DeSoto County, Florida
Hernando County, Florida
Fort De Soto Park in Pinellas County, Florida, named in turn for the 19th-century coastal fortifications at the site
DeSoto Falls in Lumpkin County, Georgia
De Soto County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Hernando
DeSoto, Missouri
Hernando de Soto Bridge, which carries Interstate 40 across the Mississippi River at Memphis (opened in 1973)
DeSoto automobile line developed by the Chrysler Corporation
DeSoto Hilton Hotel, Savannah, Georgia
The De Soto School, a private school in Helena, Arkansas
De Soto, Kansas
PS 130, Hernando Desoto, a public school in New York City
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Jump up ^ "A Narrative of the Expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida Published at Evora in 1557". Internet Archive. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
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Milanich, Jerald T. (2004). "Early Groups of Central and South Florida". In R. D. Fogelson. Handbook of North American Indians: Southeast Vol. 14. Smithsonian Institution. p. 213.
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Chronicles (in English translations)[edit]
Clayton, Lawrence A.; Knight, Vernon James, Jr.; Moore, Edward C. (1993). The De Soto Chronicles, The Expedition of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539–1543. Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press. ISBN 978-0-8173-0824-7.
Edward Gaylord Bourne, ed. (1904). Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida as told by a knight of Elvas, and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, factor of the expedition Volume I. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
Edward Gaylord Bourne, ed. (1904). Narratives of the career of Hernando de Soto in the conquest of Florida as told by a knight of Elvas, and in a relation by Luys Hernandez de Biedma, factor of the expedition Volume II. New York: A. S. Barnes and Company. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1881). Florida of the Inca. Philadelphia: Robert M. Lindsay. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Translated by E. Barnard Shipp.
Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca (1951). The Florida of the Inca. Austin: University of Texas Press. Translated by John and Jeanette Varner.
Histories[edit]
Duncan, David Ewing: Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas; University of Oklahoma Press 1997. ISBN 0-517-58222-8
Hudson, Charles M., Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun: Hernando De Soto and the South's Ancient Chiefdoms, University of Georgia Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8203-1888-4
Albert, Steve: Looking Back......Natural Steps; Pinnacle Mountain Community Post 1991.
Henker, Fred O., M.D. Natural Steps, Arkansas, Arkansas History Commission 1999.
Jennings, John. (1959) The Golden Eagle. Dell.
MacQuarie, Kim. (2007) The last days of the Incas. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-6049-X ISBN 978-0-7432-6049-7
Maura, Juan Francisco. Españolas de ultramar. Valencia: Universidad de Valencia, 2005.
"American Conquest, The Oldest Record of Native America". Retrieved April 20, 2009.
"The De Soto Chronicles Volume I, by Clayton, Knight, & Moore 1994". Archived from the original (PDF) on February 28, 2009. Retrieved April 20, 2009.
External links[edit]
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"De Soto, Fernando". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.
"Soto, Ferdinando de". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.
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Ted Lange
Lange as Isaac Washington, 1977
Born
Theodore William Lange
(1948-01-05) January 5, 1948 (age 70)
Oakland, California, United States
Residence
Torrance, California, United States
Occupation
Actor, director, screenwriter
Years active
1972–present
Spouse(s)
Mary Ley (2001–present), Sheryl Thompson (1979-1989)
Theodore William "Ted" Lange (/lændʒ/; born January 5, 1948) is an American actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series The Love Boat.
Contents
1 Early life and acting career
2 Directing and screenwriting
3 "Ask Isaac"
4 Celebrity Fit Club
5 Personal life
6 Awards
7 Filmography
8 References
9 External links
Early life and acting career[edit]
Lange was born in Oakland, California, in 1948, the son of Geraldine L., a television show host, and Ted Lange.[1] Lange attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.[2] Lange was a cast member of the musical Hair. His first screen appearance was in the documentary film Wattstax in 1973.[3][4] After appearing in the film Black Belt Jones in 1974, he portrayed Junior on the series That's My Mama before landing the role of the ship's bartender, Isaac, on The Love Boat in 1977, opposite Gavin MacLeod. After he left the show in 1987, Lange appeared in various films and guest roles on 227, The Cleveland Show, Glitch!, Evening Shade, Scrubs, Drake & Josh, The King of Queens, Boy Meets World, Psych and Are We There Yet.
In addition to his film and television work, Lange has also done extensive theater work. He made his Broadway debut in 1968 in the musical Hair.[2] He also performed in a one-man show, Behind the Mask: An Evening with Paul Laurence Dunbar.[5]
Directing and screenwriting[edit]
During the run of The Love Boat, Lange also served as director and screenwriter on various episodes of the series. In 1977, he wrote the screenplay for the 1977 drama Passing Through, starring Cora Lee Day and Marla Gibbs. In 1999, Lange directed two episodes of Love Boat: The Next Wave, the UPN series based on The Love Boat. He also directed episodes of Moesha, Dharma & Greg, and Eve. In 2008, he directed the drama For Love of Amy.
Lange has also done extensive theater work as playwright and stage director. He has penned 17 plays, including George Washington's Boy, a historical drama about the relationship between the first president and his favorite slave, along with the comedy Lemon Meringue Facade.[5][6]
Lange remains close to Gavin MacLeod, his acting mentor, who is a Palm Springs resident, and sees his plays. He said in a 2014 interview with CBS New York.com of his long-running friendship with him, "Gavin lives in Palm Springs, I'm in LA. So, when I do my plays, he comes down and sees my plays or I'll go see what he's doing!"[7] He also said in a 2017 interview with The Wiseguyz Show, if his mentor enjoyed all the acting/dancing on The Love Boat series was: "Oh yeah, sure, Gavin was wonderful. Gavin lives down here in Palm Springs and we're still tight, all of us, Gavin and Bernie and Jill; we still see each other. Fred lives in a different state, we're still close, we're still good friends."[8]
"Ask Isaac"[edit]
Before the American edition of FHM folded in 2006, Lange wrote a sex and advice column, titled "Ask Isaac", with adult film actress Jenna Jameson.[9]
Celebrity Fit Club[edit]
In 2006, Lange appeared in the fourth season of the VH1 reality show Celebrity Fit Club.[10] He lost 28 pounds during the show's run.[11]
Personal life[edit]
Lange married Sheryl Thompson in 1978, and they divorced in 1989. The couple has two children, Ted IV and Turner Wallace Lange.[1] Lange remarried in 2001 to Mary Ley. His mother is Geraldine Lange, who was a personal secretary to a San Francisco mayor and was public affairs director of KBHK-TV in San Francisco in the early 1970s. She also hosted television programs on KBHK-TV.
Lange and Gavin MacLeod, who played his captain in the series, have remained close friends.[12]
Awards[edit]
For his work theater directing, Lange received the NAACP's Renaissance Man Theatre Award, the Heroes and Legends HAL Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Dramalogue Award. Lange has also been the recipient of the James Cagney Directing Fellow Scholarship Award from the American Film Institute along with the Paul Robeson Award from Oakland's Ensemble Theatre.[6]
Filmography[edit]
Film
Year
Film
Role
Other notes
1973 Wattstax Himself
Trick Baby Melvin the Pimp Alternative title: The Double Con
Blade Henry Watson
1974 Black Belt Jones Militant Uncredited
1975 Friday Foster Fancy Dexter
1977 Passing Through - Director
1978 Record City The Wiz
1987 Terminal Exposure Fantastic Alternative title: Double Exposure
1988 Glitch! DuBois
1989 Othello Othello Director
1990 Penny Ante: The Motion Picture The Deacon
1991 Perfume George
1992 The Naked Truth The Flower Peddler
1998 Sandman Gnome
2000 The Redemption Reverend
2002 Is This Your Mother?
2003 Banana Moon Prof. Williams Co-producer
Gang of Roses Bartender #2
2006 Uncle Tom's Apartment Pops
National Lampoon's Dorm Daze 2 Celebrity Judge #2
2007 Last of the Romantics Cole Henderson
Carts Sam
2008 Senior Skip Day Reverend Alternative title: High School's Day Off
Who Shot Mamba? Dr. Crazy
The Adventures of Umbweki Airline Captain Boka
Phil Cobb's Dinner for Four Old Friend
For Love of Amy - Director
Television
Year
Title
Role
Notes
1974–1975 That's My Mama Junior 39 episodes
1976 Mr. T and Tina Harvard 5 episodes
1977–1986 The Love Boat Bartender Isaac Washington 246 episodes, director, writer
1977 The Love Boat II Bartender Isaac Washington Television movie
The New Love Boat Bartender Isaac Washington Television movie
1979 Fantasy Island The Great Scott 1 episode
Charlie's Angels Bartender Isaac Washington 1 episode
1983 The Fall Guy Bartender 1 episode
Fantasy Island - 1 episode, director
1984 Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer - 2 episodes, director
1986 That's My Mama Now! Junior Television movie
1986 John Grin's Christmas Ghost of Christmas Present Television movie
1987 Starman - 1 episode, director
1988 Christmas Ghost of Christmas Present Television movie
227 Lou 1 episode
In the Heat of the Night James Jeffson 1 episode
1989 It Nearly Wasn't Christmas Napoleon Television movie
1990 The Love Boat: A Valentine Voyage Bartender Isaac Washington Television movie
1993 Evening Shade Mr. Taxerman 1 episode
1995 Platypus Man Mr. Angel 1 episode
1996 Weird Science Isaac 1 episode
1996–2000 Moesha - Director, 5 episodes
1997 Martin Bartender Isaac Washington 2 episodes
Family Matters Frank Winslow 1 episode
1998 Love Boat: The Next Wave Bartender Isaac Washington 1 episode
The Wayans Bros. - Director, 1 episode
1999 L.A. Heat Frank Millan 1 episode
Love Boat: The Next Wave - Director, 2 episodes
2001 Cody: An Evening with Buffalo Bill - Director
Dharma & Greg - Director, 2 episodes
2002 The Hughleys Mr. Henderson 1 episode
Scrubs Mr. Blair 1 episode
2003 Half & Half Repairman 1 episode
2004 Eve - Director, 1 episode
2004–2005 Drake & Josh Mr. Calvert 2 episodes
2005 All of Us - Director, 1 episode
The King of Queens Himself 1 episode
2007 General Hospital Judge 2 episodes
2008 Psych Pookie 1 episode
2010 The Cleveland Show As himself 1 episode
2011 A Russell Peters Christmas As himself 1 episode
2012 Betty White's Off Their Rockers Various Characters Main Cast
2012 The First Family Director, 2 episodes
2014 Maron Wise Stranger 1 episode
References[edit]
^ Jump up to: a b "Ted Lange Biography (1947?-)". filmreference.com. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ted Lange Biography". tvguide.com. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
Jump up ^ Ryan, Maureen (August 12, 2008). "Honoring Isaac Hayes with a 'Wattstax' screening". Chicago Tribune.
Jump up ^ Hirsh, Marc (July 16, 2010). "The Summer Of Music Documentaries: 'Wattstax'". NPR.
^ Jump up to: a b "Productions — 2003-2004: Who's Who". newperspectivestheatre.org. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
^ Jump up to: a b "Ted Lange Biography". castproductions.com. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
Jump up ^ http://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/9875657-the-love-boat-star-ted-lange-talks-new-game-show/
Jump up ^ "03/15/17 - The Wiseguyz Show". wiseguysddv.com. March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
Jump up ^ "Catching Up with…Ted Lange". ebonyjet.com. 2008-07-30. Archived from the original on 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
Jump up ^ "The Bod Squad". People. 2006-08-07. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
Jump up ^ "Love Boat: Where are They Now?". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2008-09-28.
Jump up ^ "'Love Boat' Reunion". ABC News. 2007-09-27.
External links[edit]
Ted Lange on IMDb
Ted Lange at the Internet Broadway Database
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