History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . A Sioux Chief Hers went thither again, accompanied bythe Jesuit Menard and his servant, 1661 Menard and Guerin pushed intowhat is now Wisconsin, and may have seenthe Mississippi. These explorations madethe French familiar with the copper minesof Lake Superior, and awakened the utmost 1672 ENGLAND AND FRANCE zeal to see the Great River of which theIndians spoke. La Salle probably dis-covered the Ohio in 1670, and traced itdown to the falls at Louisville. His maineulogist holds that he even reache
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . A Sioux Chief Hers went thither again, accompanied bythe Jesuit Menard and his servant, 1661 Menard and Guerin pushed intowhat is now Wisconsin, and may have seenthe Mississippi. These explorations madethe French familiar with the copper minesof Lake Superior, and awakened the utmost 1672 ENGLAND AND FRANCE zeal to see the Great River of which theIndians spoke. La Salle probably dis-covered the Ohio in 1670, and traced itdown to the falls at Louisville. His maineulogist holds that he even reached theMississippi at that time, some three years. Totem of the Illinois. earlier than Joliet, but this is not substan-tiated. We also reject the belief that hereached the stream by way of the Chicagoportage in 1671. I i 1672 Count Frontenac, Governor ofNe .• France, despatched Louis Joliet todiscover the Great River. He reached the ;26 ENGLISH AMERICA [1676 Strait of Mackinaw in December, and therePere Marquette joined him. In May, nextpear, they paddled their canoes up the FoxRiver and tugged them across the portageinto the Wisconsin, which they descended,entering the Father of Waters June 17,1673. They floated down to the mouth ofthe Arkansas and then returned, their jour-ney back being up the Illinois and Des-plaines Rivers. Joliet gave his name tothe peak on the latter stream which thecity of Joliet, 111., near by, still arrived at Quebec in August, 1674,having in four months journeyed overtwenty-five hundred miles. It thus became known how close theupper waters of the great rivers, St. Law-rence and Mississippi,
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