The Location of La Salle's Colony on the Gulf of Mexico
Author | : Herbert Eugene Bolton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1915 |
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Author | : Herbert Eugene Bolton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1915 |
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Author | : Herbert Eugene Bolton |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780267902651 |
Excerpt from The Location of La Salle's Colony on the Gulf of Mexico On October 24, Llanos and his party reached Pass Cavallo. To this point the diary recorded the observations made by the pilot, Triana; thenceforth it recorded the joint operations of Llanos, Cardenas, and Salinas, in which a leading part was played by Cardenas. His map shows by dots the routes followed in the bay, and by crosses, numbers, and letters, the principal points of interest. The explorations in the coves and rivers were made with the launch and canoes. 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 | : William Edward Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Mississippi River Valley |
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Author | : Florence Belle Stanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : La Salle's colony |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Robert S. Weddle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Three centuries after the French explorer La Salle was murdered in the Texas wilds, this volume presents translations of three obscure documents that broaden the view of the man and his exploits. The first non-Spanish effort to settle areas along the Gulf of Mexico is seen from the perspectives of La Salle's engineer; a Spanish pilot who searched for the French colony; and two French lads who, orphaned as a result of the Fort Saint-Louis massacre, lived first among the Texas Indians, then the Spaniards.
Author | : Daniel E. Harmon |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 65 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 143812712X |
A biography of the French explorer who sailed down the Mississippi River and claimed a vast territory for France.
Author | : Amie Hazleton |
Publisher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1515742067 |
Explore the life of Sieur de La Salle in this captivating biography. At the young age of 23, La Salle left France for the New World. La Salle was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico, claiming both the river and land for France. Follow along the brave journey of La Salle and learn the importance of his expeditions in the Great West.
Author | : William Foster |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2015-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0876112866 |
“Those of us who knew how to swim crossed to the other bank. But a number of our company did not know how to swim, and I was among that number. One of the Indians gave me a sign to go get a nearly dry log . . . then, fastening a strap on each end, he made us understand that we should hold on to the log with one arm and try to swim with the other arm and our feet . . . While trying to swim . . . I accidentally hit the Father in the stomach. At that moment he thought he was lost and, I assure you, he invoked the patron saint of his order, St. Francis, with all his heart. I could not keep from laughing although I could see I was in peril of drowning. But the Indians on the other side saw all this and came to our help . . . “Still there were others to get across. . . . We made the Indians understand that they must go help them, but because they had become disgusted by the last trip, they did not want to return again. This distressed us greatly.”—From Henri Joute’s journal, March 23, 1687, shortly after La Salle was murdered. The La Salle Expedition in Texas presents the definitive English translation of Henri Joutel’s classic account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s 1684–1687 expedition to establish a fort and colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel’s journal is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of this dramatic story of adventure and misadventure in Texas. Joutel, who served as post commander for La Salle, describes in accurate and colorful detail the daily experiences and precise route La Salle’s party followed in 1687 from the Texas coast to the Mississippi River. By carefully comparing Joutel’s compass directions and detailed descriptions to maps and geographic locations, Foster has established where La Salle was murdered by his men, and has corrected many erroneous geographic interpretations made by French and American scholars during the past century. Joutel’s account is a captivating narrative set in a Texas coastal wilderness. Foster follows Joutel, La Salle, and their fellow adventurers as they encounter Indians and their unique cultures; enormous drifting herds of bison; and unknown flora and fauna, including lethal flowering cactus fruit and rattlesnakes. The cast of characters includes priests and soldiers, deserters and murderers, Indian leaders, and a handful of French women who worked side-by-side with the men. It is a remarkable first hand tale of dramatic adventure as these diverse individuals meet and interact on the grand landscape of Texas. Joutel’s journal, newly translated by Johanna S. Warren, is edited and annotated with an extensive introduction by William C. Foster. The account is accompanied by numerous detailed maps and the first published English translation of the testimony of Pierre Meunier, one of the most knowledgeable and creditable survivors of La Salle’s expedition.
Author | : Samuel Willard Crompton |
Publisher | : Infobase Learning |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2013-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1438148631 |
La Salle is one of the best-known but least-understood explorers of human history. Celebrated for following the Mississippi to its mouth in present-day Louisiana, he was also berated for failing to locate that same area again w.
Author | : Patricia K. Galloway |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2011-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628469358 |
To most people it probably seems that La Salle and his men, permanently fixed in the pantheon of explorers of the North American continent, need little further introduction. The fact is that this whole early period of exploration and colonization by the French in the southeastern United States has received far less scholarly attention than the corresponding English and Spanish activities in the same area, and even the existing scholarship has failed to focus clearly upon the Indian tribes whose attitudes toward the European new comers were crucial to their very survival. In this collection of essays marking the tricentennial of René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle's 1682 expedition into the Lower Mississippi Valley, thirteen scholars from a variety of disciplines assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast. These scholars in the fields of French colonial history and the ethnohistory of the Indians of the Louisiana Colony deal with a diversity of topics ranging from La Salle's expedition itself and its place in the context of New World colonialism in general to the interaction of French settlers with native Indian tribes.