Sieur De La Salle

Author : Jim Hargrove
Publisher : Chicago : Childrens Press
ISBN 13 : 9780516030548
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle written by Jim Hargrove and published by Chicago : Childrens Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who led the first European expedition to track the Mississippi River.

Author : Nicolas de La Salle
Publisher : Austin : Texas State Historical Association
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River written by Nicolas de La Salle and published by Austin : Texas State Historical Association. This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River presents the definitive English translation of Nicolas de La Salle's diary account of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle's 1682 discovery expedition of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This previously unknown manuscript copy was discovered recently in the collection of rare books in the Texas State Archives. It provides the most complete and authoritative account available of this historic North American adventure and territorial claim. By careful cross- document analysis, Foster projects an extended expedition chronology that adds about two weeks to the journey, corrects the date that La Salle's claim was announced, and revises erroneous interpretations made by most contemporary French and American scholars. The work includes maps prepared by the noted Southwest cartographer John V. Cotter

Author : William Foster
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112866
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The La Salle Expedition to Texas written by William Foster and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those of us who knew how to swim crossed to the other bank. But a number of our company did not know how to swim, and I was among that number. One of the Indians gave me a sign to go get a nearly dry log . . . then, fastening a strap on each end, he made us understand that we should hold on to the log with one arm and try to swim with the other arm and our feet . . . While trying to swim . . . I accidentally hit the Father in the stomach. At that moment he thought he was lost and, I assure you, he invoked the patron saint of his order, St. Francis, with all his heart. I could not keep from laughing although I could see I was in peril of drowning. But the Indians on the other side saw all this and came to our help . . . “Still there were others to get across. . . . We made the Indians understand that they must go help them, but because they had become disgusted by the last trip, they did not want to return again. This distressed us greatly.”—From Henri Joute’s journal, March 23, 1687, shortly after La Salle was murdered. The La Salle Expedition in Texas presents the definitive English translation of Henri Joutel’s classic account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s 1684–1687 expedition to establish a fort and colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel’s journal is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of this dramatic story of adventure and misadventure in Texas. Joutel, who served as post commander for La Salle, describes in accurate and colorful detail the daily experiences and precise route La Salle’s party followed in 1687 from the Texas coast to the Mississippi River. By carefully comparing Joutel’s compass directions and detailed descriptions to maps and geographic locations, Foster has established where La Salle was murdered by his men, and has corrected many erroneous geographic interpretations made by French and American scholars during the past century. Joutel’s account is a captivating narrative set in a Texas coastal wilderness. Foster follows Joutel, La Salle, and their fellow adventurers as they encounter Indians and their unique cultures; enormous drifting herds of bison; and unknown flora and fauna, including lethal flowering cactus fruit and rattlesnakes. The cast of characters includes priests and soldiers, deserters and murderers, Indian leaders, and a handful of French women who worked side-by-side with the men. It is a remarkable first hand tale of dramatic adventure as these diverse individuals meet and interact on the grand landscape of Texas. Joutel’s journal, newly translated by Johanna S. Warren, is edited and annotated with an extensive introduction by William C. Foster. The account is accompanied by numerous detailed maps and the first published English translation of the testimony of Pierre Meunier, one of the most knowledgeable and creditable survivors of La Salle’s expedition.

Author : Isaac Joslin Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journeys of Réné Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle written by Isaac Joslin Cox and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Simone Payment
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780823936281
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Salle written by Simone Payment and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2003-12-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Patricia Kay Galloway
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604736356
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Salle and His Legacy written by Patricia Kay Galloway and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle's expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast

Author : Lorraine Boissoneault
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771160
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Voyageurs written by Lorraine Boissoneault and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reid Lewis never wanted to be an ordinary French teacher. With the approach of the American Bicentennial, he decided to put his knowledge of French language and history to use in recreating the voyage of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to travel from Montreal to the end of the Mississippi River. Lewis’ crew of modern voyageurs was comprised of 16 high school students and 6 teachers who learned to sew their own 17th-century clothing, paddle handmade canoes, and construct black powder rifles.Together they set off on an eight-month, 3,300-mile expedition across the major waterways of North America. They fought strong currents on the St. Lawrence, paddled through storms on the Great Lakes, and walked over 500 miles across the frozen Midwest during one of the coldest winters of the 20th century, all while putting on performances about the history of French explorers for communities along their route. The crew had to overcome disagreements, a crisis of leadership, and near-death experiences before coming to the end of their journey. The Last Voyageurs tells the story of this American odyssey, where a group of young men discovered themselves by pretending to be French explorers.

Author : John Paul Zronik
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778724131
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sieur de la Salle written by John Paul Zronik and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was one of the great explorers of the New World. Born and raised in France, he became famous for his exploration of many lakes and rivers in North America.

Author : Isaac Joslin Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle written by Isaac Joslin Cox and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Cavelier de La Salle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle written by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: