A Journey with Sieur de La Salle

A Journey with Sieur de La Salle — page 1
INTRODUCTION A LOST HISTORY French explorer Sieur de La Salle lived during the seventeenth century near the end of the Age of Exploration This was a time when Europeans explored and colonized parts of what they called the New World La Salle explored the Great Lakes region the Mississippi River and the Gulf of Mexico He is probably best known for giving the Louisiana territory its name Biographer Francis Parkman wrote that La Salle kept journals and made maps of his expeditions These journals and maps are examples of primary sources information created by those who witnessed an event Historians use primary This engraving of Sieur de La Salle was created in the nineteenth century long after La Salle died It is not considered a primary source I QU