Book/Printed Material Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay
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Image 1 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of …- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 11 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY WITH THE ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF MARQUETTE, ALLOUEZ, MEMBRE, HENNEPIN, AND ANASTASE DOUAY BY JOHN GILMARY SHEA SECOND EDITION WITH A FACSIMILE OF THE NEWLY-DISCOVERED MAP…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 12 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … FIVE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED FROM TYPE FOR joseph Mcdonough Albany, N. Y. 1903 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852 By J. S. REDFIELD in the Clerk s Office…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 13 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … JARED SPARKS, LL. D. PRESIDENT OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY THIS VOLUME IN INSCRIBED AS A MARK OF PERSONAL REGARD By the Author- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 14 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of …- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 15 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … PREFACE It has long been a desideratum to have in English the early narratives of the discovery and exploration of the Mis- sissippi. Marquette s map and voyage have indeed appeared, but…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 16 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … CONTENTS History of the Discovery of the Mississippi Valley page vii Life of Father James Marquette, of the Society of Jesus, first explorer of the Mississippi xli Notice on the sieur Jolliet…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 17 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … HISTORY OF THB DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. N glancing at a map of America, we are at once struck by the mighty river Mississippi, which, with its count- less branches, gathers…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 18 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … viii HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY later a map was drawn up by the arbitrator appointed to decide between the claims of rival discoverers, and on it we find the Mississippi again traced…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 19 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. ix political freedom, of the nicely-poised balance between the ruler and thle ruled. Not yet had the world been startled by the extremes of a claim of divine…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 20 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … X HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY swept them away, and the coast was whitened with their bleaching bones. A few with Cabeza de Vaca were thrown on an island on the coast of…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 21 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xi De Vaca s from Culiacan, and crossing the desert wastes, reached the Colorado; but after gazing from a command- ing height on the embattled towers of Cibola,…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 22 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xii HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY Here began his second campaign; lured by the glittering promises of an Indian guide, he marched to the northeast, crossing the Altamaha, and perhaps entered the territory…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 23 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xiii The river was of great depth, and of a strong current; the water was always muddy; there came down the river con- tinually many trees and timber,…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 24 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xiv HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY explored for a considerable distance; but far other than com- mercial or colonial projects filled the mind of De Soto; he stood by what he knew an…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 25 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. XV valley of the Red river, passing by the tribes which were not expelled or exterminated when the country was ultimately explored by the French. Nazacahoz, in the…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 26 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xvi HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY sailed, as they computed, two hundred and fifty leagues down the river. Thence, after many dangers and hardships, the survivors coasting along reached Tampico, whereat the viceroy…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 27 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xvii Querechos, or roving Indians of the plains, that marching toward the rising sun, he should meet a very great river, the banks of which he could follow…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 28 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xviii HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY icans. The party reached Coosa in safety, entered into an alliance offensive and defensive with the cacique, who was then at war with the Napochies (probably the…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 29 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xix The Mississippi was now forgotten, and although explored for at least a thousand miles, known to have at least two branches equal in size to the finest…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 30 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … XX HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY land from Quebec to Hudson s bay. It is to one of them that we owe the discovery of the rich and inexhaustible salt springs of Onondaga.…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 31 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xxi Hurons, and, reaching the last limit of the Algonquins, found himself among the Ouinipegou Winnebagoes), a people called so, because they came from a distant sea, but…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 32 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xxii HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY applied to the Mississippi. It is certain then, that to Nicolet is due the credit of having been the first to reach the waters of the Mississippi.…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 33 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xxiii 1656, but was killed ere he left the St. Lawrence. De Gro- seilles and another Frenchman, more fortunate, wintered on the shores of the lake in 1658;…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 34 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xxvi HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY louez, he returned to Green bay, and as early as September, in the same year, both were again at Maskoutens.* Father Dablon had meanwhile been named superior-gen-…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 35 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xxvii he at once alludes to the Mississippi. To the south flows the great river, which they call the Missisipi, which can have its mouth only in the…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 36 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … xxviii HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY The course of the Mississippi, its great features, the nature of the country, were all known to the western missionaries and the traders, who alone with them…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 37 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xxix devotions to the blessed Virgin Immaculate, to obtain the grace of reaching the Mississippi. What was his joy when on the very festival dearest to his heart,…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 38 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … XXX HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY which he reached on the 7th of June, 1673. He had now attained the limit of former discoveries, the new world was before them; they looked back…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 39 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. xxxi Old men came slowly on, step by measured step, bearing aloft the all-mysterious calumet. All was silence; they stood at last before the two Europeans, and Marquette…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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Image 40 of Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of … XXX11 HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY second meeting, they plied their oars anew, and amid groves of cotton-wood on either side, descended to the 33d degree, where, for the first time, a hostile…- Contributor: Marquette, Jacques - John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress) - Shea, John Gilmary
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