Jolliet and Marquette A new history of the 1673 expedition
Book - 2023
"Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region's diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped E...uropean colonization of the heartland. A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history."--
- Subjects
- Genres
- History
- Published
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Champaign, IL :
3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- xii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-278) and index.
- ISBN
- 9780252045219
9780252087356
- Preface
- Introduction: the historical background to 1665
- Confronting the Haudenosaunee, searching for ore, and Allouez in the Upper Country
- Copper mines, Cavelier, and Wisconsin
- St. Lusson, Marquette, Jolliet and the Sault, Adrien Jolliet, and Frontenac
- St. Ignace to the Des Moines River
- From the Illinois Villages to the Illinois River
- From the Mississippi to Kaskaskia
- Kaskaskia to Lake Michigan andbBeyond
- Canada, Jolliet, and Marquette
- Marquette returns to Kaskaskia
- La Salle, Allouez, and Kaskaskia
- Hudson Bay, La Salle in the Illinois, and the Recollects
- La Salle, the Illinois Country, and the Gulf
- Epilogue
- Appendix: Timeline of events.