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Author
Publisher
H. Holt and Co
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Tracing the route of seventeenth-century French explorer Robert de La Salle from the Great Lakes down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, Spurr, his son and grown daughter use journals and documents of La Salle and his contemporaries to reveal the history of the region while also illuminating the changes it has undergone.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
The Sieur de La Salle's story begins in 1682, when he sets out with twenty-two Frenchmen, eighteen Indians, and his always-grumbling, epileptic cartographer, Pierre Goupil, to chart the length of the Mississippi River. In the course of this novel, in the form of diary entries by La Sale and Goupil, we see early America as seldom before--a world as foreign to us as any, for, as author Vernon points out, "the map of North America, so etched in our imaginations,...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the exploration of North America in the times of explorers Christopher Columbus, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, and Sieur de La Salle. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from Columbus' voyage in 1492, Coronado's 1540 expedition, and Sieur de La Salle's expedition down the Mississippi River in 1682"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1976, America's bicentennial, 24 young men set out to re-create French explorer La Salle's voyage down the entire length of the Mississippi River, abandoning their modern identities in order to live like the voyageurs of the 1600s.
20) La Salle
Author
Publisher
ABDO
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
La Salle was the first European to explore the length of the great Mississippi River. As a result of La Salle's exploration, France was able to claim the entire Mississippi River basin.