History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . CE 3-9 Du Lhut, visited the Ojibwas and Siouxwest of Lake Superior. Du Lhut reachedthe upper waters of the Mississippi at SandyLake. He went there again in 1680. In1682 La Salle crossed the Chicago portageand explored the lower Mississippi all theway to the Gulf, taking possession of theentire valley in the name of France andnaming it Louisiana. Nicholas Perrot trav-elled by way of the Fox and WisconsinRivers to the upper Mississippi in 1685, andao-ain in 1688. It is in his writings that theword Chicago f
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . CE 3-9 Du Lhut, visited the Ojibwas and Siouxwest of Lake Superior. Du Lhut reachedthe upper waters of the Mississippi at SandyLake. He went there again in 1680. In1682 La Salle crossed the Chicago portageand explored the lower Mississippi all theway to the Gulf, taking possession of theentire valley in the name of France andnaming it Louisiana. Nicholas Perrot trav-elled by way of the Fox and WisconsinRivers to the upper Mississippi in 1685, andao-ain in 1688. It is in his writings that theword Chicago first appears in were thus between the two greatvalleys, 1, the Superior route; 2, the Wis-consin and Fox route; 3, the Illinois Riverroute, whether by the Kankakee, La Sallesway, or by the south branch of the ChicagoRiver, Joliets way ; and 4, the route bythe Wabash and Ohio. The Wabash, too,could be approached either from Lake Erieor from Lake Michigan, through St. JosephsRiver. At high water, canoes often passedfrom Lake Michigan into the Mississippiwithout OiontajiUt JCitkigt Tcfres jnhabitec* brtape
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