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France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West

Francis Parkman

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 439 pages

This is a historical narrative, the third part of Francis Parkman's France and England in North America. It follows the French explorer La Salle and his expeditions through the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley, tracing the struggle for the continent. It offers a detailed, dramatic account of exploration and colonial ambition.

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Opening of the book

Francis Parkman's Works.
NEW LIBRARY EDITION.
Vol. III.

FRANCIS PARKMAN'S WORKS.

New Library Edition.

Pioneers of France in the

New World

1 vol.

The Jesuits in North

America

1 vol.

La Salle and the

Discovery of the Great

West

1 vol.

The Old Régime in

Canada

1 vol.

Count Frontenac and

New France under Louis

XIV

1 vol.

A Half Century of

Conflict

2 vols.

Montcalm and Wolfe

2 vols.

The Conspiracy of

Pontiac and the Indian

War after the Conquest

of Canada

2 vols.

The Oregon Trail

1 vol.

Frontispiece

Copyright, 1897, by Little, Brown & Co         Goupil & Co., Paris

La Salle Presenting a Petition to Louis XIV.

Drawn by Adrien Moreau.

La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, Frontispiece

LA SALLE
AND THE
DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT
WEST.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN
NORTH AMERICA.
Pĵǡǵ TƒƗǡŠ.
BY
FRANCIS PARKMAN.
BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1908
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
FǡĵƿŕƗǪ Pĵǡƫƽĵƿ,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by

FRANCIS PARKMAN,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Copyright, 1897,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

Copyright, 1897,

BY GRACE P. Coffin AND KATHARINE S. COOLIDGE.

Copyright, 1907,

BY GRACE P. Coffin.

Printers

S. J. PARKHILL & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

ТО

THE CLASS OF 1844,

Harvard College,

THIS BOOK IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED

BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER.

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Contents

  1. Transcriber's Note:
  2. LA SALLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST. FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN NORTH AMERICA.
  3. PREFACE OF THE ELEVENTH EDITION.
  4. PREFACE OF THE FIRST EDITION.
  5. CONTENTS
  6. LA SALLE
  7. DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST.
  8. CHAPTER I
  9. CHAPTER II.
  10. CHAPTER III.
  11. CHAPTER IV.
  12. CHAPTER V.
  13. CHAPTER VI.
  14. CHAPTER VII.
  15. CHAPTER VIII.
  16. CHAPTER IX.
  17. CHAPTER X.
  18. CHAPTER XI.
  19. CHAPTER XII.
  20. CHAPTER XIII.
  21. CHAPTER XIV.
  22. CHAPTER XV.
  23. CHAPTER XVI.
  24. CHAPTER XVII.
  25. CHAPTER XVIII.
  26. CHAPTER XIX.
  27. CHAPTER XX.
  28. CHAPTER XXI.
  29. CHAPTER XXII.
  30. CHAPTER XXIII.

and 10 more chapters

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