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March 6, 2022 Leave a Comment

Mark Twain’s Mississippi River

This series has seven easy 5-minute installments. This first installment: Illustrating Keelboat Talk and Manners.IntroductionA glance at the map

February 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

De Soto Discovers The Mississippi

This series has three easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: Surrounded by Warriors.IntroductionFrom the eastern coast of Florida

September 11, 2020 Leave a Comment

Down the Mississippi River at Last

Today's installment concludes La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River,our selection from Histoire du Canada by François Xavier Garneau

September 10, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

September 9, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

September 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

September 6, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

September 5, 2020 Leave a Comment

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

September 4, 2020 Leave a Comment

La Salle Explores Length of Mississippi River

This series has seven easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: The Nature of the French Empire.IntroductionElsewhere on this site we

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