Book Description
In 1673, an unlikely pair set off to see whether the Mississippi River flowed into the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Daniel E. Harmon
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 2013-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1438146957
In 1673, an unlikely pair set off to see whether the Mississippi River flowed into the Pacific Ocean.
Author : Laura M. Chmielewski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 34,7 MB
Release : 2017-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 131760105X
In this succinct dual biography, Laura Chmielewski demonstrates how the lives of two French explorers – Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trapper – reveal the diverse world of early America. Following the explorers' epic journey through the center of the American continent, Marquette and Jolliet combines a story of discovery and encounter with the insights derived from recent historical scholarship. The story provides perspective on the different methods and goals of colonization and the role of Native Americans as active participants in this complex and uneven process.
Author : Mark Walczynski
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0252054725
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland. A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history.
Author : Kristin Petrie
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617848026
This biography introduces young readers to the lives of Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette and fur trader Louis Jolliet. The book discusses each man's childhood and education. Readers discover that the Mississippi River is one of North America's most important waterways and that Marquette and Jolliet were the first white men to travel the upper Mississippi River, from the Wisconsin River to the mouth of the Arkansas River. The book introduces how various Native American tribes, such as the Quapaw tribe, helped the explorers. Also explained through engaging text are the lives of Marquette and Jolliet following their Mississippi River journey. Marquette soon died at the mouth of the Pere Marquette River, and Jolliet married, had a family, and continued his work as an explorer and a mapmaker. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, a map, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text and allow readers to follow Marquette and Jolliet's brave journey.
Author : Alexander Zelenyj
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 33,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780778724315
This exciting new book outlines how Marquette and Jolliet laid the groundwork for further French colonization of the New World, which led to the claiming of the huge territory of Louisiana.
Author : R. Conrad Stein
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Describes the seventeenth-century expedition undertaken by two Frenchmen, a priest and a soldier, that led to the European discovery of the upper Mississippi.
Author : Tanya Larkin
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 34,40 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823936250
A biography of the French explorers whose primary goal was to find the Northwest Passage, but who made their mark on history by exploring and charting the Mississippi River.
Author : Francis Borgia Steck
Publisher : Quincy, Ill. : Franciscan Fathers
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Canada
ISBN :
Author : Zachary Kent
Publisher : Children's Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780516030722
An account of the expedition led by two Frenchmen, a soldier and a priest, to explore the Mississippi River in the late seventeenth century.
Author : Francis Borgia Steck
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Canada
ISBN :