Harmon, Daniel E.

Jolliet and Marquette : explorers of the Mississippi River / Daniel E. Harmon. - Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002. - 63 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. - Explorers of new worlds .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.

Examines the lives and discoveries of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, seventeenth-century French explorers who were assigned to follow the course of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to see whether it led to the Pacific Ocean.

6.2 5-8 Follett Library Resources

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Marquette, Jacques, 1637-1675.
Joliet, Louis, 1645-1700.


Explorers--Biography.


Mississippi River--Exploration.

F352 / .H27 2002

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