Jolliet and Marquette : a new history of the 1673 expedition / Mark Walczynski.

Champaign, IL : 3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press, [2023]

xii, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region's diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland. A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history"-- Provided by publisher.

New history of the 1673 expedition

Online version: Walczynski, Mark Jolliet and Marquette Champaign, IL : 3 Fields Books, an imprint of University of Illinois Press, [2023]

English

September 12, 2023

Includes bibliographical references and index.