La Salle and His Legacy: Frenchmen and Indians in the Lower Mississippi Valley

by Patricia Kay Galloway

Book Overview

To most people it probably seems that La Salle and his men, permanently fixed in the pantheon of explorers of the North American continent, need little further introduction. The fact is that this whole early period of exploration and colonization by the French in the southeastern United States has received far less scholarly attention than the corresponding English and Spanish activities in the same area, and even the existing scholarship has failed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578069335
• ISBN13: 9781578069330
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"