Students of the Hernando De Soto expedition are in general agreement that he crossed the Mississippi River at Quizquiz on June 18, 1541. There has been considerable debate about the location of Quizquiz, but not a great deal about the location of the Mississippi River when De Soto crossed it. Following the conclusion of Phillips in the Phillips, Ford, and Griffin volume it was generally assumed that Fisk’s River Stage 15 approximated the location of the river in 1541. This conclusion is questioned and more appropriate channel correlations are suggested.
ChildsHTMcNuttCH (2009) Hernando De Soto’s route from Chicaça through northeast Arkansas: A suggestion. Southeastern Archaeology28(2): 165–183.
2.
DyeDH (1993) Reconstruction of the De Soto expedition route in arkansas: the mississippi alluvial plain. In: YoungGAHoffmanMP (eds) The Expedition of Hernando de Soto West of the Mississippi 1541–1543: Proceedings of the de Soto Symposia 1988 and 1990, Fayettevilen AR: The University of Arkansas Press, pp. 36–57.
3.
Fisk HN (1944) Geological investigations of the Alluvial Valley of the Lower Mississippi River. United States Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River Commission, Publication No. 52. Vicksburg MS.
4.
Krieger AD (1946) Culture complexes and chronology in Northern Texas, with Extension of Puebloan Dating to the Mississippi Valley. University of Texas Publication no. 4640. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.
5.
PhillipsPFordJAGriffinJB (1951) Archaeological Survey in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and EthnologyVol. 25, Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
6.
SmithGP (1990) The walls phase and its neighbors. In: DyeDHCoxCA (eds) Towns and Temples Along the Mississippi, Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press.
