. The new eclectic history of the United States . French Trailers in AD. 1679. La Salle on the Lower Mississippi Valley by La Salle, 3 the greatest ofFrench adventurers. He aimed tomake it a vast inland empire, drawingits wealth from the fur-trade, andsubject to the king of France. Build-ing the first shipthat had ever beenseen above the Falls ofNiagara, La Salle sailedthrough the Lakes, thenstruck inland, and, aftermany losses and disasters,passed through the Missis-sippi to the Gulf. 164. The French in Texas—Frenchmen were eager totake possession of the greatcountry thus thrown open

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. The new eclectic history of the United States . French Trailers in AD. 1679. La Salle on the Lower Mississippi Valley by La Salle, 3 the greatest ofFrench adventurers. He aimed tomake it a vast inland empire, drawingits wealth from the fur-trade, andsubject to the king of France. Build-ing the first shipthat had ever beenseen above the Falls ofNiagara, La Salle sailedthrough the Lakes, thenstruck inland, and, aftermany losses and disasters,passed through the Missis-sippi to the Gulf. 164. The French in Texas—Frenchmen were eager totake possession of the greatcountry thus thrown opento them, and their GrandMonarch, Louis XIV., * IOO HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATICS. spent more in one expedition to plant a city at the mouth of theMississippi than all the English sovereigns in a hundred yearsbestowed upon their thirteen colonies. Nevertheless, it proveda miserable failure. The fleet passed the great river, and I,aSalle never found his way back. He was murdered by one ofhis men, and the colony which he had founded in Texas dwin-dled away until its site wa

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