Three centuries after the French explorer La Salle was murdered in the Texas wilds, this volume presents translations of three obscure documents that broaden the view of the man and his exploits. The first non-Spanish effort to settle areas along the Gulf of Mexico is seen from the perspectives of La Salle's engineer; a Spanish pilot who searched for the French colony; and two French lads who, orphaned as a result of the Fort Saint-Louis massacre, lived first among the Texas Indians, then the Spaniards.
Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
Who first sailed down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico? La Salle did. Known to many as Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, this French explorer claimed the Mississippi Valley for France. Read about how La Salle explored the Great Lakes area and tracked the Mississippi river to the Gulf of Mexico. Book jacket.
A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
In adversity he was never cast down and always hoped with the help of heaven to succeed in his enterprises despite all the obstacles that rose against it.
