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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 977.01092 EAN: 9780876111963 ISBN: 0876111967 Label: Texas State Historical Association Manufacturer: Texas State Historical Association Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 200 Publication Date: 2004-03 Publisher: Texas State Historical Association Studio: Texas State Historical Association Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating: - La Salle 1682 ExpeditionExcellent study of La Salle expedition which claimed Lousiana for France in 1682. Thorough review of historical and ethnographic studies not only of this "discovery" but of earlier native and Spanish activities. Very fine original scholarly study with some radical new interpretations. Definitely worth a place in the library of scholars of North America. John F. Swenson 
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