May 8 DeSoto Reaches the Mississippi
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 2016-05-08

Katie Borum, a sophomore at Trinity Episcopal Day School presents a Natchez History Minute about Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto reaching the banks of the Mississippi River on this day, May 8 in 1541.   DeSoto died in 1542 but his troops would later encounter the Natchez Indians.