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France and England in N America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West
Francis Parkman
2012
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four ships but never reached his destination. Landing somewhere in East Texas, he and his men were ravaged by disease, weakened by hard labor, even gored by buffalo as they tried to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River, which was obscured by the sandy sameness of the Gulf coastline. In 1687, on a third attempt to locate the river by an overland route, La Salle was murdered by his own men in the desolate country between the Trinity and Brazos rivers. His body was never found.
First published in 1869, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West is the vivid, richly detailed story of that final grim expedition, told by...
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Keywords
- Explorers -- America -- Biography
- Explorers -- France -- Biography
- F1001
- GITenberg
- Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
- Mississippi River Valley -- Discovery and exploration
- New France -- Discovery and exploration
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