La Salle : La Salle and the Mississippi River

La Salle : La Salle and the Mississippi River / by Ann Heinrichs.

Author/creator	Heinrichs, Ann
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Minneapolis, Minn. : Compass Point Books, ©2002.
Description	48 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subject(s)	La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687--Juvenile literature. La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687. Explorers--Mississippi River Valley --Biography --Juvenile literature. Explorers--France --Biography --Juvenile literature. Explorers. Mississippi River Valley--Discovery and exploration --French --Juvenile literature. Mississippi River Valley--History --To 1803 --Juvenile literature. Canada--History --To 1763 (New France) --Juvenile literature. Mississippi River--Discovery and exploration. America--Discovery and exploration --French.

Series	Exploring the world Exploring the world. ^A630813
Contents	"I do now take possession" -- The early years -- Learning the ways of the wilderness -- Off to a rough start -- Laying claim to Louisiana -- The death of a dream.
Abstract	A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only that river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 46) and index.
LCCN	2001004729
ISBN	0756501784 (lib. bdg.)
Stock number	1073202 QBI

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Joyner	TRC Biographies	B L33H	✔ Available	Place Hold