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Marquette Joliet LaSalle Historic Northwest Pioneers Explored
The account reviews Father Marquette the explorer known as the Father of the Northwest and his 1673 Mississippi voyage with Joliet, the 1670 Masacre to Arkansas, and LaSalle’s later westward ascent from Lake Ontario toward the Ohio. It notes Pere Marquette’s death at Lake Michigan and LaSalle’s birth and quest to extend Louis XIV’s empire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardihood
Marquette
Chevalier la Salle
Northwest
Ohio River
Col. Wood
Capt. Bolt
LaSalle
Canada
France
Sault Sainte Marie
Claude Dablon
Nicholas Perrot
Sault
St. Ignatius
Allouez
Dablon
Green Bay
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Father Marquette
Mississippi River
Mackinac
Joliet
Fox River
Lake Winnebago
Wisconsin River
Pere Marquette
Quebec
Charlevoix
Far West
Sieur Joliet
Robert LaSalle
Louis Hennepin
Count Frontenac
la Salle
Louis
New World
Louis XIV
Lake
Ontario
Ohio
Falls of the Ohio
Louisville
Colbert
Lake Erie
Lake Huron