Casual reading reveals the Commission's neglect of observations written in the original DeSoto journals due, in large part, to political pressure that it do so. All of the known DeSoto journals have been translated since the Henry Schoolcraft DeSoto Trail theory of 1857, which the Commission adopted, was published. DeSoto's trail led to Chicago, NOT to where the Commission indicated. Midwestern Natives, described by DeSoto's people, were unlike any we learned about in school.