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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In "Old Man River," Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history--the Mississippi. Some fifteen thousand years ago, the majestic river provided Paleolithic humans with the routes by which early man began to explore the continent's interior. Since then, the river has been the site of historical significance, from the arrival of Spanish and French explorers in the 16th century to the Civil War. George Washington...
3) La Salle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the life of Robert Cavalier, sieur de La Salle, who led an expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi River and who claimed the land he explored for France.
Author
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France, not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
An account of the ecological and historical impact of a series of Mississippi River Valley earthquakes in 1811 and 1812 documents how towns were destroyed and political loyalties were altered, changing the course of the War of 1812.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This exciting new book outlines how Marquette and Jolliet laid the groundwork for further French colonization of the New World, which led to the claiming of the huge territory of Louisiana.
Author
Language
English
Description
When it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington and Martin Ridge's fifth edition, with a new introduction and additional scholarship by Ridge, as well as an updated bibliography, focuses on the Trans-Mississippi...
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Sieur de La Salle didn't think twice before leaving the priesthood in France and setting sail for the New World at the age of twenty-two. This book chronicles his success in finding a route to the Pacific Ocean.