Synopsis
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Niagara-on-the-L ake, and looked across at Fort Niagara on the opposite shore. I had never been there, and knew nothing about it. It sworth seeing, said a friend at my side. Queer old place. They say Louis the Fourteenth built it. I was skeptical. It struck me as absurd that the French monarch should be concerned with anything away in the interior of A merica. I had everything to learn. But that chance remark of an idle hour gave spur to my curiosity. I soon found my way to Parkman, and his pages opened the door to many other sources of light. He gave me the general story of the French in A merica, and I was no longer skeptical as to the building of Fort Niagara by Louis XIV. But neither Parkman nor any other printed source afforded the details I sought to know regarding the early history of our Niagara region. I ndeed, Parkman was always an aggravation with his innumerable footnote references to manuscript authorities and sources. I wanted to read the documents he cited; and soon learned, as any student of our history learns, that if one seeks to know what has happened hereabouts seeks to know who have been the moving spirits on the Niagara since its discovery, to know what they did and when, and what their influence has been one must go to the manuscript sources.
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