Today's installment concludes La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River,our selection from Histoire du Canada by François Xavier Garneau
La Salle Awaits Supply Ship
The vessel not appearing, and winter being near, he set out for the country of the Illinois Indians, leaving a few men in charge of the
La Salle Establishes Town at Niagara Falls
Neither had before seen the former so great a triumph of human art; nor the latter, so overpowering a spectacle of nature.Continuing La Salle
La Salle Dreams Big
He had been resident some years in Canada when Joliet returned from his expedition to the Mississippi. The effect of so promising a discovery, upon
The Marquette and Joliet Expedition
One thing was made plain to their perceptions: the Mississippi afforded no passage to the East Indian seas.Continuing La Salle Explores Length of
Early French Explorers of the Interior
The most celebrated of such were Champlain, Nicolet, Perrot, Joliet, La Salle, and La Verendrye.Continuing La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi
La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River
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Parkman, Vol. 3, The End
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Parkman Vol. 3, Chapter 28
The locality of La Salle's assassination is sufficiently clear, from a comparison of the several narratives.Previously in The Discovery of the Great