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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643-1687) was a French explorer in the Great Lakes region who traveled the Mississippi River, claiming the territory for France. Born and raised in France and educated in the Jesuit religious order, he went to Montreal in New France in 1666. On one of his expeditions in the subsequent years he built the first sailing ship on the Great Lakes, Le Griffon. Part of his legacy was a chain of forts from Ontario into present-day Ohio and Illinois that extended French control and the French fur trade into the region of the present Great Lakes states.
Author Francis Parkman was one of America’s best-known and most respected historians in the late nineteenth century. He drew on a great depth of expertise about the history of the French in North America for this book, which was long considered a standard history on the topic.
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La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West: France And England In North America V3 (France and England in North America)
July 25, 2007, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West: France And England In North America V3
May 26, 2006, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West: France And England In North America Part Three
July 31, 2004, Kessinger Publishing
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West: France and England in North America Part Three
July 26, 2004, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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LA Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
April 1991, Vintage Books
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0679726152 9780679726159
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LA Salle and the Discovery of the Great West: France and England in North America
November 1979, Corner House Publications, Corner House Pub
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0879280042 9780879280048
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La Salle And The Discovery Of The Great West
January 1869, Reprint Services Corp
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0781258928 9780781258920
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