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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ladybranch, post: 78956, member: 44&quot;]&quot;1890&quot;!!! Hmmmmm.... Wild pigs have been in the Americas since the Spanish 1st set foot on these shores. They brought pigs with them. Many of their pigs eventually got loose and went wild developing into the wild boers today known in such states as Arkansas, Georgia, etc. The pigs that the Spanish brought got Hernando DeSoto in trouble as he was trudging through what is known today as Florida, Alabama and Mississippi looking for El Dorado- the city of gold. The Native Americans had never tasted pork before DeSoto wintered with them on the AL-MS line. They started trying to take the DeSoto expeditions pigs. DeSoto killed the stealing Indians. Needless to say this upset the natives resulting in them harrassing DeSoto across the state of Mississippi. DeSoto was wounded as they neared the Mississippi River. He and his men were able to get across the river into Arkansas. As they were moving across Arkansas, DeSoto&#039;s wound got worse and he died. His men turned back burying/dropping DeSoto in the Mississippi River so the natives couldn&#039;t find his grave. His men built rafts and floated down the river to the Gulf of Mexico where a few that survived were rescued.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, I live in DeSoto County, MS, and the county seat is Hernando. DeSoto came through here. US 78 crosses the state here from AL to the MS River. It more or less follows the old Indian trail from the AL line where the Native Americans (bands of Choctaws) wintered to the bluffs of the Mississippi River where they summered doing quite a lot of trading with many other tribes up and down the Mississippi.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2125" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2125" rel="nofollow">http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2125</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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