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Identifier: youngfolksstoryo00hans (find matches)
Title: Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Hanson, John Wesley, Jr. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, W. B. Conkey co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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FRENCH TRADERS. ccJonize the territory he had explored and which he had named Lou-is-i-an-a,but which included the present state of Lou-is-i-an-a and all the territory northof the line of Tex-as and west of the Mis-sis-sip-pi to the Rocky Moun-tains. La Salle left France in 1684 with four vessels, but it was almost a yearbefore he arrived at the mouth of the Mis-sis-sip-pi. He passed beyond themouth of the river, landing farther west: thus it happened that Tex-as was thefirst state to be settled after Flor-i-da. The captain deserted La Salle and re-
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AN INDIAN ATTACK. DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHWEST. »11 turned to France where he told unjust stories of the great discoverer. Al-though they were kind to him, La Salle was very unfortunate in his explora-tions and after many months spent in searching for the Jlis-sis-sip-pi river hefinally met his death at the hands of one of his companions. About ten yearsafter La Salles death France made another effort to colonize the Mis-sis-sip-pivalley. Le-moine Di-ber-ville was given the command of an expedition andin 1699 he sailed from France to explore the territory which La Salle had dis-covered and in which he had lost his life. He entered the Gulf of Mex-i-co and sailed up the Mis-sis-sip-pi river.He made a second voyage in 1700 and established a settlement about thirtymiles below the present city of New Or-leans. Communication was estab-lished between Louis-i-an-a and Can-a-da by way of the Mis-sis-sip-pi andLake Er-ie. An Eng-lish-man by the name of Coxe was sent out by CharlesII of Eng-la

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