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The Discovery of the Mississippi

They told him that the Mississippi was infested by hostile Indians, armed with guns procured from white men.Previously in The Discovery of the Great

They bade farewell to the waters that flowed to the St. Lawrence and committed themselves to the current that was to bear them they knew not

Frontenac was full of faults; but it is not through these that his memory has survived him.Previously in The Discovery of the Great West.Our

In the name of the Most High, Mighty, and Redoubted Monarch, Louis, Fourteenth of that name . . . .”Previously in The Discovery of the Great

There were two principal missions on the Upper Lakes; which were, in a certain sense, the parents of the rest.Previously in The Discovery of the

La Salle discovered the Ohio, and in all probability the Illinois also; but that he discovered the Mississippi has not been proved, nor, in the light

This is the first recorded passage of white men through the Strait of Detroit; though Joliet had, no doubt, passed this way on his return from the

Landing, passing the fort, and walking southward along the shore, one would soon have left the rough clearings, and entered the primeval

This begins Volume 3 of Francis Parkman's classic series on France in North America. The volume is titled "The Discovery of the Great