The Adventures of the Chevalier de la Salle and his Companions: In Their Explorations of the Prairies (John Stevens Cabot Abbott) - comprehensive & illustrated - (Literary Thoughts Edition)

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John Stevens Cabot Abbott. The Adventures of the Chevalier de la Salle and his Companions: In Their Explorations of the Prairies (John Stevens Cabot Abbott) - comprehensive & illustrated - (Literary Thoughts Edition)

Literary Thoughts Edition presents. The Adventures of the Chevalier de la Salle, by John Stevens Cabot Abbott

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. – The Enterprise of James Marquette

CHAPTER II. – The First Exploration of the Mississippi River

CHAPTER III. – Marquette's Last Voyage, and Death

CHAPTER IV. – Life upon the St. Lawrence and the Lakes Two Hundred Years Ago

CHAPTER V. – The Voyage Along the Lakes

CHAPTER VI. – The Expedition of Father Hennepin

CHAPTER VII. – Life with the Savages

CHAPTER VIII. – Escape from the Savages

CHAPTER IX. – The Abandonment of Fort Crèvecœur

CHAPTER X. – La Salle's Second Exploring Tour

CHAPTER XI. – The Great Enterprise Accomplished

CHAPTER XII. - The Return Voyage

CHAPTER XIII. – Sea Voyage to the Gulf of Mexico

CHAPTER XIV. – Lost in the Wilderness

CHAPTER XV. – A Trip toward Mexico

CHAPTER XVI. – The Last Days of La Salle

CHAPTER XVII. – The Penalty of Crime

CHAPTER XVIII. – The Close of the Drama

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THE INHABITANTS OF THE GREAT VALLEY OF THE WEST,

WHOSE MAGNIFICENT REALMS LA SALLE AND HIS COMPANIONS

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"I found," Marquette writes, "that these good people had hung skins and belts and bows and arrows on the cross, an offering to the Great Spirit, to thank him because he had taken pity on them during the winter and had given them an abundant chase."

No white man had ever penetrated beyond this region. These simple, inoffensive people seemed greatly surprised that seven unarmed men should venture to press on to meet the unknown dangers of the wilderness beyond—wilds which their imaginations had peopled with all conceivable terrors.

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