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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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going as far south as the mouth of the Ar-kan-sas. They floated down theMis-sis-sip-pi river in their canoes, meeting with many In-di-ans who treatedthem finely. They saw the passage from the Fox to the Wis-con-sin river andfrom the St. Law-rence to the Mis-sis-sip-pi river. They floated past the pointwhere the Mis-sou-ri entered into the great river on which they sailed. Whenthey reached the Il-li-nois river they followed its course and made a portageinto lake Mich-i-gan. Mar-quette lived for two years among the Mi-am-i In-di-ans, dying in 1675, while on his way to Mack-i-nac. Jo-li-et told wonderfulstories of the expedition when he arrived at Mon-tre-al, and La Salle, a Nor-man gentleman, who had established a trading post near that city, fitted out anexpedition. With thirty men he marched to Lake On-ta-ri-o, made the portageby Ni-ag-a-ra Falls to lake Er-ie, where he built a ship in which he sailed as faras Green Bay. La Salle and his men walked to St. Jo-seph, where they waited 87
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AN OLD TRAPPTF DISCOVERIES IN THE NORTHWEST. for the ship to come up with them. It did not appear, so he went westward,reaching the present La Salle county in Il-li-nois, where he established a fort.La Salle finally returned to Mon-tre-al, but in 1681 he set out upon anotherexpedition. He crossed lake Mich-i-gan and penetrated inland by way of theChi-ca-go river, which strange as it may seem, they named the Divine River.La Salle made friends with the In-di-ans, and finally arrived at the Mis-sis-sip-pi. He followed the river until after many adventures he arrived at the sea.Soon after his return La Salle went to France, where he was given power to

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