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•La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 (12)
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•Peänalosa, Diego Dionisio de, -- 1624-1687 (1)
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1Title:  La route du Mississippi    
 Creator:  Gravier, Gabriel. 
 Publication:  G. Crâepin-LeBlond, Nancy,1878. 
 Call #:  F1003 G775 
 Extent:  2 p. Á., 76 pp. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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2Title:  [Relation of the voyages, discoveries, and death, of Father James Marquette, and the subsequent voyages of Father Claudius Allouez    
 Creator:  Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675 
 Dablon, Claude, 1618-1697
 Allouez, Claude Jean.
 Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
 Publication:  Springfield,1903. 
 Call #:  F38B I28C v.1 
 Extent:  p. [8]-40 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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3Title:  [Narrative of the voyage to the upper Mississippi    
 Parent:  Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library. [Springfield, Illinois State Historical Library] 1903. 23 cm. v. 1, p. 46-105    
 Creator:  Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent 
 Publication:   
 Notes:  Reprinted, with slight changes and omissions, from Shea's Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi ... 1852. 
 Call #:  F38B I28C v.1 
 Extent:   
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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4Title:  Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley: with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membrâe, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay    
 Creator:  Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892 
 Publication:  Redfield, New York,1852. 
 Notes:  Narrative of the adventures of La Salle's party at Fort Crevecoeur, in Illinois, from February, 1680, to June, 1681, by Father Zenobius Membrâe.--Narrative of La Salle's voyage down the Mississippi, by Father Zenobius Membrâe.--Account of La Salle's attempt to reach the Mississippi by sea, and of the establishment of a French colony in St. Louis bay, by Father Christian Le Clercq.--Narrative of La Salle's attempt to ascend the Mississippi in 1687, by Father Anastasius Douay.--Appendix: Recit des voyages et des dâecouvertes du p. Jacques Marquette. Unfinished letter of Father Marquette to Father Claude Dablon ... containing a journal of his last visit to the Illinois. La Salle's patent of nobility. La Salle's second commission. Comparative table of the names on the map pub. by Thevenot, as Marquette's, and on his real map annexed. Publisher's advertisements: 8 p. (at end) 
 Call #:  F25J S539D 
 Extent:  lxxx, 267, [1] p. front. (facsim.) fold. map 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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5Title:  Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley: with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membrâe, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay    
 Creator:  Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892 
 Publication:  Redfield, New York,1853 
 Call #:  F25J S539D1 
 Extent:  lxxx, 267 p. : fold. maps ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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6Title:  The Mississippi River and its source: a narrative and critical history of the discovery of the river and its headwaters, accompanied by the results of detailed hydrographic and topographic surveys    
 Creator:  Brower, Jacob Vradenberg, 1844-1905 
 Hill, A. J. (Alfred James), 1823-1895
 Publication:  Harrison & Smith, state printers, Minneapolis, Minn,1893. 
 Notes:  "How the Mississippi River and the Lake of the Woods became instrumental in the establishment of the northwestern boundary of the United States, by Alfred J. Hill": p. [305]-352. Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  F43B M665Co v.7 
 Extent:  xv, 360 p., [36] leaves of plates : ill., maps (some folded), ports. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Northwest boundary of the United States
 
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7Title:  Relation ou Journal du Voyage du R.P. Jacques Gravier, de la Compagnie de Jâesus, en 1700 depuis le pays des Illinois jusqu'áa l'embouchure du Mississipi    
 Creator:  Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708 
 Jesuits Letters from missions (North America)
 Publication:  De la Presse Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, Isle de Manate, Nouvelle York,1859. 
 Notes:  Achevâe d'imprimer par J. Munsell, áa Albany, d'apráes l'original ... 31 aoust, 1859. "Tirâe áa 100 exemplaires. no. 46. J.G. Shea." First edition. 
 Call #:  F1030.7 C57 no.11 
 Extent:  68 p. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | New France -- Discovery and exploration
 
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8Title:  Discovery of the river Mississippi and the adjacent country    
 Parent:  American Antiquarian Society. Archaeologia americana transactions and collections of the American Antiquarian Society. Worcester, Mass., 1820. 23 cm. p.61]-104 , vol. 1, [pt. 2]    
 Creator:  Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent 
 Publication:   
 Notes:  Extracts from the English translation of the author's Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe ... Utrecht, 1698. 
 Call #:  E172 A509A v.1 
 Extent:   
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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9Title:  Headwaters of the Mississippi: comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca    
 Creator:  Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 
 Publication:  Rand, McNally, Chicago,1893, c1892. 
 Call #:  B 5031 
 Extent:  527 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Minnesota -- Description and travel
 
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10Title:  Early voyages up and down the Mississippi    
 Creator:  Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892 
 Cavelier, Jean, 1636-1722
 Buisson, Jean Franðcois de St. Cosme, 1667-1707
 Le Sueur, Pierre, ca. 1657-1707
 Gravier, Jacques, 1651-1708
 Guignas, Michel, 1681-1752
 Publication:  Joel Munsell, Albany,1861. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  F25DA S539 
 Extent:  191 p. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Canada -- Discovery and exploration (New France)
 
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11Title:  De La Salle et ses relations inâedites de la dâecouverte du Mississipi: (Extrait de la Gâeologie pratique de la Louisiane)    
 Creator:  Thomassy, Raymond, 1810-1863 
 Publication:  C. Douniol, Paris,1859. 
 Notes:  Cover dated 1860. 
 Call #:  F1030.5 T465 
 Extent:  3 p. L., 24 p. front. (fold. map) 26 x 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687? | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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12Title:  On the way to Iowa: An address delivered at Iowa City, Iowa, before the State Historical Society of Iowa on May the twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred ten    
 Creator:  Weld, Laenas Gifford, 1862-1919 
 State Historical Society of Iowa
 Publication:  The State Historical Society of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia,1910. 
 Call #:  Pam. W1168 
 Extent:  32 p. 25 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Iowa -- History
 
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13Title:  The discovery of the great West    
 Creator:  Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 
 Publication:  Little, Brown, Boston, MA,1870, c1869. 
 Notes:  LA3026-228 James A. Garfield bookplate Location: 228.7-8/3-B. 
 Call #:  LA3026-228 
 Extent:  xxi, 425 p. : map. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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14Title:  Headwaters of the Mississippi: comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca    
 Creator:  Glazier, Willard W., 1841-1905 
 Publication:  Rand McNally, Chicago,1894, c1892. 
 Call #:  F25X G553 
 Extent:  527 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Minnesota -- Description and travel | Mississippi River -- Sources
 
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15Title:  Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage: a reprint (page for page and line for line) of the first English translation, London, 1714; with the map of the original French edition Paris, 1713, in facsimile    
 Creator:  Joutel, Henri, 1640?-1735 
 Anderson, Melville Best, 1851-1933
 Caxton Club
 Publication:  The Caxton club, Chicago,1896. 
 Notes:  206 copies printed. With facsimile of t.-p. of the edition of 1714. 
 Call #:  F1030.5 J86J1 1896 
 Extent:  4 p. l., xxi, [9], 229 p., 1 l. : fold. map ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration | Louisiana -- History -- To 1803
 
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16Title:  The discovery of the Great West    
 Creator:  Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 
 Publication:  Little, Brown, Boston,1869. 
 Notes:  Includes index. 
 Call #:  F1030 P249D 
 Extent:  xxi, 425 p. : map. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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17Title:  La Salle and the discovery of the great West    
 Creator:  Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 
 Publication:  Little, Brown, Boston,1885. 
 Notes:  Earlier editions issued under title: The discovery of the great West. 
 Call #:  F1030 P249L 
 Extent:  xxv, 483 p. illus. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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18Title:  La Salle and the discovery of the great West: France and England in North America    
 Creator:  Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 
 Publication:  Little, Brown, and company, Boston,1905, [c1897] 
 Call #:  F1030 P248 1906 v.3 
 Extent:  xxii, 522 p. map, 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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19Title:  La Salle and the discovery of the great West    
 Creator:  Parkman, Francis, 1823-1893 
 Publication:  Little, Brown, and company, Boston,[c1907] 
 Call #:  F1030 P249L 1907 
 Extent:  522 p. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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20Title:  "Memoir sent in 1693, on the discovery of the Mississippi and the neighboring nations    
 Creator:  Tonti, Henri de, d. 1704 
 Publication:  Springfield,1903. 
 Call #:  F38B I28C v.1 
 Extent:  p. 128-164. 23 cm. 
 Subjects:  La Salle, Robert Cavelier, -- sieur de, -- 1643-1687 | New France -- Discovery and exploration | Mississippi River -- Discovery and exploration
 
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