mississippi river valley

Tom Sawyer, a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, has many adventures, including witnessing a murder, running away to an island and pretending to be a pirate, watching his own funeral, and falling in love.

An account of life on the Mississippi in the old steamboat days and Twain's experiences as a pilot.

A color-illustrated biography of seventeenth-century French explorer Ren?-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, who became the first European to travel the entire Mississippi River, and whose expeditions led to France's creation of the Louisiana colony.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.

Examines the lives and discoveries of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, seventeenth-century French explorers who were assigned to follow the course of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to see whether it led to the Pacific Ocean.

Illustrations and simple text provide a brief introduction to the life of seventeenth-century Jesuit explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier.

Presents Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," the story of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century.

Presents a look at various explorers and the expeditions they led into the Mississippi River Valley in the years between 1672 and 1832.

A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first Europeans to locate and chart the Mississippi River.

A biography of the French explorer who claimed the Mississippi River basin for France in April 1682.