John Abbott tells the story of René-Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who pushed from New France across the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to its mouth, and of the companions, priests and Native nations he met. Rivalries, Iroquois war parties and shipwrecks shadow his plans for a French empire in the interior.
Popular nineteenth-century history in a vigorous storytelling style, with the period’s language about Native peoples. Download the free EPUB.