Join host Jack Maddox as he unravels the brutal true story of Hernando de Soto's catastrophic expedition through the American Southeast—a doomed quest for gold that sparked bloody battles, unleashed devastating plagues, and ended in desperate escape down the Mississippi River. A saga of conquest and collapse that changed history forever.

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