La Salle
La Salle: La Salle and the Mississippi River
by Ann Heinrichs
Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2002.
ISBN: 0756501784
LCC: F352
Summary:
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 that river, but also all the land whose
waters fed into it.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
"I do now take possession" -- The early years -- Learning the ways of
the wilderness -- Off to a rough start -- Laying claim to Louisiana
-- The death of a dream.
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