to 1803

Describes the achievements and the life of seventeenth-century French explorer Ren?-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle, who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River.

A biography of the Spanish governor who raised a seven-thousand soldier army to drive the British out of the Mississippi Valley and the Gulf of Mexico during the Revolutionary War in America.

Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

An account of the expedition led by two Frenchmen, a soldier and a priest, to explore the Mississippi River in the late seventeenth century.

Describes how this treaty, also known as the Treaty of San Lorenzo, came to be signed in 1795 by the United States and Spain, and how the agreement allowed America to grow westward and to avoid war with Spain.

In 1772, years of mistreatment force thirteen-year-old Melitte to decide whether or not to run away from the Frenchman who has kept her as a slave on his poor Louisiana farm and leave the young girl who is the only person who ever loved her.

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.