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De Soto National Memorial
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For Kids

The De Soto Visitor Center has a great hands-on exhibit for young and old alike. This exhibit allows you to try on pieces of armor and imagine marching in De Soto's army.  Conquistadors wore up to 80 pounds of armor and often treked 12 miles per day.

Click on the link above and see how you can become a Junior Ranger!

 
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The men of Hernando de Soto's 1539 expedition to La Florida learned the hard way that Native American warriors could load and fire their long bows with deadly accuracy nearly a dozen times in the period required to load and fire the clumsy arquebus musket once. Visit De Soto National Memorial.
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Last Updated: August 20, 2006 at 12:30 EST