Includes bibliographical references (pages [437]-471) and index.
An official's report : the Hernandez de Biedma account / Ida Altman-- The incestuous Soto narratives / Patricia Galloway-- The gentlemen of Elvas and his publisher / Martin Malcolm Elbl, Ivana Elbl-- La Florida del Inca : Garcilaso's literary sources / Lee Dowling-- "So unbelievable it has to be true" : Inca Garcilaso in two worlds / David Henige-- Hernando de Soto before Florida : a narrative / Curt Lamar-- Hernando de Soto and his Florida fantasy / Ignacio Avellaneda-- Soto's problems of orientation : maps, navigation, and instruments in the Florida Expedition / Robert S. Weddle-- Leaques in Mexico versus leagues in Florida : how good were estimates? / Ross Hassig-- Of roads and reifications : the interpretation of historical roads and the Soto entrada / Jack D. Elliott-- Disease and the Soto entrada / Ann F. Ramenofsky, Conjoncture and Longue Duree : history, anthropology, and the Hernando de Soto expedition / From chiefdome to tribe in Northeast Mississippi : the Soto expedition as a window on a culture in transition / Jay K. Johnson-- The historical significance of the Soto route / Charles Hudson-- The expedition of Hernando de Soto and the Spanish struggle for justice / Ralph H. Virgil-- Law, legitimacy, and the legacy of Hernando de Soto / Lawrence J. Goodman, John R. Wunder-- Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes : chronicler of the Indies / Juan Bautista de Avalle-Arce-- The representation of violence in the Soto narratives / Jose Rabasa-- Commemorative history and Hernando de Soto / Patricia Galloway