Past and Present of Platte County, Nebraska, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint): A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement - Couverture souple

G. W. Phillips

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1332176208 ISBN 13 : 9781332176205

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Past and Present of Platte County, Nebraska, Vol. 1: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

The work left unfinished by J Oliet - the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi - was accomplished by the indomitable La Salle. The discovery of a water route to China, the planting of colonies in the West, the building of a fort at the point where the Mississippi ?ows into the Gulf of Mexico - these were the magnificent schemes revolving in his mind while at Fort Frontenac, Canada. Having first Obtained a royal commission for perfecting the discovery of the great river, La Salle, with the necessary companions and stores, as cended Lake Ontario, entered the Niagara River, and, passing around the falls, selected a spot at the mouth of a stream now known as Cayuga Creek, on the American side, about two leagues above the cataract Where he commenced building the Griffin, a bark of sixty tons. This craft, after many delays, was finally fully equipped, and spreading her sails, boldly stood on her way westward - the first ves sel to navigate Lake Erie. This was in August, 1679.

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Excerpt from Past and Present of Platte County, Nebraska, Vol. 1: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement

In 1634 the first white man set foot upon the territory west of Lake Michigan. Jean Nicolet, agent of the Company of One Hundred, an association legalized by the French king, ventured thither on a mission of trade, to induce the Indians of that region to send their furs to the lower country. Here he became advised of the fact that there existed "the country of the Illinois," through which the streams flowed into a mightier river to the southwestward. But the French agent did not get sight of the Wisconsin; his explorations were confined to a comparatively small area in the vicinity of Green Bay.

Jesuit Endeavor

The time at length arrived when was to be revealed the mystery which had so long enshrouded the "great water." The existence of the river could no longer be doubted. Its exploration above the uppermost point reached by De Soto was only a question of time. Nicolet heard of the mighty stream, but mistook it for the sea. In 1658, two fur traders, who had reached Lake Superior, were told that the ferocious Sioux dwelt on the banks of a great river to the westward. And as early as 1665, at what is now known as Ashland Bay, in Wisconsin, a Jesuit missionary - Claude Allouez - talked with wild warriors from the mysterious "Messippi." The same priest four years afterward, while on a visit to the Indians on Fox River, of Green Bay, was assured that the wide rolling river was not far away; that it had its source a great way to the north and flowed southward, they knew not whither. And in 1667, the intrepid La Salle, if he did not actually see the magnificent stream, floated, it is claimed, down one of its principal eastern tributaries. The exploration therefore of the Upper Mississippi could not longer be delayed.

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• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1332176208
• ISBN 13: 9781332176205
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 452
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