History and stories of Nebraska . llthe vast country north they calledFlorida, so that Nebraska was apart of Florida upon their 1541, the Spaniards, under Cor-onado, crossed the plains from NewMexico to the Kansas-Nebraskacountry. In the same year Span-iards under De Soto crossed theMississippi River into Arkansasand marched northwest nearlyto Kansas. These Spaniards didnot remain, but afterwards Spainclaimed all the country because Spaniards were the firstwhite men to find it. The French.— The French came to this region morethan a hundred years after the Spaniards. From Quebec,where t
History and stories of Nebraska . llthe vast country north they calledFlorida, so that Nebraska was apart of Florida upon their 1541, the Spaniards, under Cor-onado, crossed the plains from NewMexico to the Kansas-Nebraskacountry. In the same year Span-iards under De Soto crossed theMississippi River into Arkansasand marched northwest nearlyto Kansas. These Spaniards didnot remain, but afterwards Spainclaimed all the country because Spaniards were the firstwhite men to find it. The French.— The French came to this region morethan a hundred years after the Spaniards. From Quebec,where they first settled in 1608, their missionaries and furtraders pushed west and southwest to Lake Superior andLake Michigan. Here they first heard of a great river tothe west. Father Marquette, one of these missionary ex-plorers, wrote a letter from his Mission on Lake Su-perior in 1670, in which he says: Six or seven daysbelow the Illinois Indians is another river on whichare some great nations who use wooden canoes. Of these 218. Spanish, French and EngLisH Flags. (Drawing h%Miss Martha Turner.) NEBRASKA UNDER THREE FLAGS 219 we cannot speak until next year, if God bestows the graceupon us to lead us there. Father Marquette and Louis Joliet, his companion,paddled in a birch bark canoe from Lake Michigan up theFox River, carried their canoe two miles across the land tothe Wisconsin River, floated down the Wisconsin and onJune 17, 1673, first saw the Mississippi River near Prairiedu Chien in Wisconsin. They paddled their canoe downthe Mississippi for many days. The country was all newand strange. In one place they saw a great monster paintedupon the rocks. The next day they came to the mouth ofthe Missouri river and this is what they say: The Pekitanoui or Missouri River.— As we were gentlysailing down the still clear water, we heard a noise of arapid into which we were about to fall. I have seen nothingmore frightful. A mass of large trees entire with branches,a real floating
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