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By Francis Parkman, Jr.
Francis Parkman, Jr. was an American historian, best known as author of The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life and his monumental seven-volume France and England in North America.
LaSalle and the Discovery of the Great West was first published in 1869. It is a vivid and richly detailed story of the final grim expedition, told by America’s foremost historian.