CONTENTS
Preface vii
I. Leon and the Marquettes 1
II. The Training of a Man of Action 8
III. Arrival in Canada 17
IV. Two Years of Apprenticeship 37
V. The Indians and the Missions 38
VI. Arrival at the Ottawa Mission 48
VII. The Sault and its People 58
VIII. At La Pointe Mission 67
IX. Lake Superior Abandoned 84
X. Arrival at Mackinac 100
XI. A Strenuous Life 110
XII. Joliet arrives at Mackinac 133
XIII. The Expedition Starts 187
XIV. Arrival at De Pere 145
XV. The Mission of St. Francois Xatter 156
XVI. At the Mascouten Village 170
XVII. Discovert of the Mississippi 183
XVIII. The Limit of the Journey 190
XIX. A Winter at St. Francois Xavder 305
XX. Relief in Death 317
XXI. Marquette's Place in History 338
Index 385
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Reputed portrait of Marquette. Frontispiece
Jesuit map of Lake Superior, 1670-71 70
Joliet and Marquette departing from St. Ignace 144
Combined bronze sun-dial and compass 158
Terrors ostensorium, 1686 168
Entering the Wisconsin River at Portage 186
Function of the Wisconsin and Mississippi 190
The Meeting with the Illinois 194
Attacked by the Mitchigamea 200
Marquette's MS. map, 1673 212
A page of Marquette's Journal, 1674-75 218
Marquette's journey across the site of Chicago 220
The death of Marquette 226
Burial of Marquette at St. Ignace 228
Trentanove's statue of Marquette 280
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