La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN :
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,56 MB
Release : 1897
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN :
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN :
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1903
Category :
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Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 20,95 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Explorers
ISBN :
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 2013-12
Category :
ISBN : 9781314960228
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Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1962
Category : America
ISBN :
René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle (1643-1687), one of the most legendary explorers of the New World, is best known for claiming the entire Louisiana Territory for France in 1682. Two years later, he was given the order to colonize and govern the great expanse of territory between Lake Michigan and the Gulf of Mexico. He set out from France with four ships but never reached his destination. Landing somewhere in East Texas, he and his men were ravaged by disease, weakened by hard labor, even gored by buffalo as they tried to locate the mouth of the Mississippi River, which was obscured by the sandy sameness of the Gulf coastline. In 1687, on a third attempt to locate the river by an overland route, La Salle was murdered by his own men in the desolate country between the Trinity and Brazos rivers. His body was never found.
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 1911-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1465529470
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2016-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781333432072
Excerpt from La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West France and England in North America, Vol. 1 of 2: Part Third This edition is revised throughout, and in part rewritten with large additions. A map of the country traversed by the explorers is also added. The name of La Salle is placed on the titlepage. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher :
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN :
Author : John Hrastar
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 2018-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1476630399
In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback. It took more than a century to break the mountain barrier and open the west to settlement. In 1751 a private Virginia company pioneered a road from Maryland to Ohio, challenging the French and Indians for the Ohio country. Several wars stalled the road, which did not start in earnest until after Ohio became a state in 1803. The stone-paved Cumberland Road--from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia--was complete by 1818 and over the next 30 years was traversed by Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the first general purpose railroad in the world--started in Baltimore in the 1820s and reached Wheeling by 1852, uniting east and west.