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Book Synopsis A Journey with Sieur de La Salle by : L. L. Owens
Download or read book A Journey with Sieur de La Salle written by L. L. Owens and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary sources enable readers to learn more about the journeys of Sieur de La Salle.
Book Synopsis The La Salle Expedition on the Mississippi River by : Nicolas de La Salle
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
Book Synopsis The La Salle Expedition to Texas by : William Foster
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.
Book Synopsis The Last Voyageurs by : Lorraine Boissoneault
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.
Book Synopsis Explore with Sieur de la Salle by : Cynthia J. O'Brien
Download or read book Explore with Sieur de la Salle written by Cynthia J. O'Brien and published by Travel with the Great Explorer. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This engaging book follows the travels of French nobleman Sieur de la Salle who expanded the fur trade in North America - then called New France - and explored the Mississippi River down to the Gulf of Mexico. Historical information and high-interest fact boxes are presented in a tabloid-news style that guides readers through major voyages, explorations, and discoveries. Topics include La Salle's quest for a new trade route to China, life in New France, interactions with the Seneca, the fur trade, sailing down the Mississippi, and La Salle's legacy. Teacher's guide available.
Book Synopsis La Salle and His Legacy by : Patricia Kay Galloway
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
Book Synopsis The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle by : Isaac Joslin Cox
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 1922 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West by : Francis Parkman
Download or read book La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1879 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ghost Empire written by Philip Marchand and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, travelogue, and memoir combine in this illuminating journey in the footsteps of the great explorer La Salle. This is the extraordinary account of a personal and historical quest in which Philip Marchand retraces the seventeenth-century explorations of La Salle while he searches in the present day for vestiges of France’s lost North American legacy. After he explored the Great Lakes and the entire Mississippi, La Salle was murdered by his own men when he led them on a disastrous mission to Texas. The vast land beyond Quebec that he claimed for France could have become — but for a few twists of history — an alternative North America: a French-speaking, Catholic empire in which native peoples would have played a prominent role. Marchand probes the intriguingly flawed character of La Salle and recounts the astonishing history of the Jesuit missionaries, coureurs de bois, fur traders, and soldiers who followed on his heels, and of the Indian nations with whom they came into contact. He also reports on the survivals of this diaspora from late-night bars, battle reenactments, parish churches, and wayside restaurants from Montreal to Venice, Louisiana. And throughout he draws on memories of his own Catholic childhood in Massachusetts to interpret the lingering attitudes, fears, hopes, and iconography of a people who, more deeply than most, feel the burdens and the ironies of history.
Author :Isaac Joslin Cox Publisher :New York, Allerton Book Company, 1922. - New York : AMS Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :336 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle by : Isaac Joslin Cox
Download or read book The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle written by Isaac Joslin Cox and published by New York, Allerton Book Company, 1922. - New York : AMS Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America by : Louis Hennepin
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 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Description of Louisiana by : Louis Hennepin
Download or read book A Description of Louisiana written by Louis Hennepin and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From a Watery Grave by : James E. Bruseth
Download or read book From a Watery Grave written by James E. Bruseth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the discovery and excavation of the French ship La Belle, shipwrecked in 1686 in Matagorda Bay, Texas.
Book Synopsis A Journey with Juan Ponce de León by : Laura Hamilton Waxman
Download or read book A Journey with Juan Ponce de León written by Laura Hamilton Waxman and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primary sources provide readers with insight into the journeys of Juan Ponce de Leaon.
Book Synopsis The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle by : Isaac Joslin Cox
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:
Book Synopsis The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions by : John S. C. Abbott
Download or read book The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions written by John S. C. Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis The Discovery of the Great West by : Francis Parkman
Download or read book The Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by Boston : Little, Brown. This book was released on 1869 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.
