Download or read book History of La Salle County Illinois written by Urias John Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of LaSalle County Illinois written by Michael Cyprian O'Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book History of La Salle County Illinois written by Elmer Baldwin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Illinois State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1858 and 1859 written by George W. Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of LaSalle County Illinois written by Elmer Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Past and Present of La Salle County Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of LaSalle County Illinois written by Michael Cyprian O'Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Past and Present of LaSalle County Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West written by Francis Parkman and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of La Salle County Illinois written by Elmer Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of LaSalle County Illinois written by Michael Cyprian O'Byrne and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The La Salle Expedition to Texas written by William Foster and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-08 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those of us who knew how to swim crossed to the other bank. But a number of our company did not know how to swim, and I was among that number. One of the Indians gave me a sign to go get a nearly dry log . . . then, fastening a strap on each end, he made us understand that we should hold on to the log with one arm and try to swim with the other arm and our feet . . . While trying to swim . . . I accidentally hit the Father in the stomach. At that moment he thought he was lost and, I assure you, he invoked the patron saint of his order, St. Francis, with all his heart. I could not keep from laughing although I could see I was in peril of drowning. But the Indians on the other side saw all this and came to our help . . . “Still there were others to get across. . . . We made the Indians understand that they must go help them, but because they had become disgusted by the last trip, they did not want to return again. This distressed us greatly.”—From Henri Joute’s journal, March 23, 1687, shortly after La Salle was murdered. The La Salle Expedition in Texas presents the definitive English translation of Henri Joutel’s classic account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s 1684–1687 expedition to establish a fort and colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River. Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel’s journal is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of this dramatic story of adventure and misadventure in Texas. Joutel, who served as post commander for La Salle, describes in accurate and colorful detail the daily experiences and precise route La Salle’s party followed in 1687 from the Texas coast to the Mississippi River. By carefully comparing Joutel’s compass directions and detailed descriptions to maps and geographic locations, Foster has established where La Salle was murdered by his men, and has corrected many erroneous geographic interpretations made by French and American scholars during the past century. Joutel’s account is a captivating narrative set in a Texas coastal wilderness. Foster follows Joutel, La Salle, and their fellow adventurers as they encounter Indians and their unique cultures; enormous drifting herds of bison; and unknown flora and fauna, including lethal flowering cactus fruit and rattlesnakes. The cast of characters includes priests and soldiers, deserters and murderers, Indian leaders, and a handful of French women who worked side-by-side with the men. It is a remarkable first hand tale of dramatic adventure as these diverse individuals meet and interact on the grand landscape of Texas. Joutel’s journal, newly translated by Johanna S. Warren, is edited and annotated with an extensive introduction by William C. Foster. The account is accompanied by numerous detailed maps and the first published English translation of the testimony of Pierre Meunier, one of the most knowledgeable and creditable survivors of La Salle’s expedition.
Download or read book La Salle County written by and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nueces River runs west to east across La Salle County, and at one time it served as the boundary between Texas and Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, ceded the Nueces Strip to Texas. La Salle County was formed out of some of this land in 1858. Early settlers struggled to survive in the wild terrain amid fears of attacks from outlaws and natives. From the Indian Raid of 1878 and the assassination of a sheriff, to droughts and dust storms, the hardy people of La Salle County persevered. After an election in 1883, Cotulla was selected as the permanent county seat, a courthouse was erected, and churches and schools were built. The lawlessness of the past is gone, but the county's residents share the perseverance of those early pioneers.
Download or read book History of La Salle County Illinois written by Urias John Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
