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Discovery of the Great West

France and England in North America, part third

by Francis Parkman

1869 425 pages eng

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 ex…

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