The La Salle Expedition On 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 : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143812712X
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Salle and the Exploration of the Mississippi written by Daniel E. Harmon and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the French explorer who sailed down the Mississippi River and claimed a vast territory for France.

Author : David Aretha
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781598450989
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Salle written by David Aretha and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the life of Renâe Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, from his childhood to his travels to his death, his discoveries and accomplishments, and his impact on world history"--Provided by publisher.

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 : 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 : 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 : Joan E. Goodman
Publisher : Mikaya Press
ISBN 13 : 1931414017
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Despite All Obstacles written by Joan E. Goodman and published by Mikaya Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Daniel Spurr
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466893494
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River of Forgotten Days written by Daniel Spurr and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poignant voyage of discovery down the great Mississippi. Praised by such authors as John Barth, and George V. Higgins, Dan Spurr's gently powerful memoir, Steered by the Falling Stars, captured the hearts of readers with its story of death, rebirth, and redemption and its evocative description of life under sail. Now, Spurr takes us on another adventure, a voyage into not only the heartland of contemporary America but also back into the rough and ready days of exploration and discovery 250 years ago. Following the trail of the enigmatic French explorer Rene de La Salle, Spurr takes his seven-year-old son Steve and his grown daughter Adriana down the Mississippi from Chicago to New Orleans in the rundown, underpowered Belle. Throughout the journey, the juxtaposition of modern America on the river's banks and the untamed wilds of La Salle's day, as revealed through journals and historical documents, illuminates the changes in the land and its people over the intervening centuries. The inexorable flow of Spurr's clean and honest prose mirrors that of this greatest of American rivers. The voices of the river's denizens and the keen observations of the author's young and wide-eyed shipmates take us deep into the heart of an ever-changing American landscape.

Author : Louis Hennepin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America written by Louis Hennepin and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: