The Project Gutenberg E-text of Pathfinders of the Great Plains
by Lawrence J. Burpee
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About this eBook
- Author
- Burpee, Lawrence J. (Lawrence Johnstone), 1873-1946
- Title
- Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines (This file was produced from images obtained from The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1001: North America local history: Canada
- Subject
- La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de, 1685-1749
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 30145
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30145
- Release Date
- October 1, 2009
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.PATHFINDERS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
- 2.LAWRENCE J. BURPEE — TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1914
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — La Vérendrye Explorations, 1731-43 — CHAPTER I — EARLY SERVICE — CHAPTER II — FIRST ATTEMPT AT EXPLORATION — CHAPTER III — ACROSS THE PLAINS — An Indian encampment. From a painting by Paul Kane. — An Assiniboine Indian. From a pastel by Edmund Morris. — CHAPTER IV — THE MANDAN INDIANS — Mandan girls. From Pritchard's 'Natural History of Man.' — CHAPTER V — THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS — Tablet deposited by La Vérendrye, 1743. Obverse and reverse sides. From photographs lent by Charles N. Bell, F.R.G.S., President of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society. — CHAPTER VI — LA VÉRENDRYES' LATTER DAYS — The Marquis de la Galissonière. From an engraving in the Château de Ramezay. — BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE — INDEX
- 5.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED — Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
- 6.THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA — PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS — PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE — PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION — PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA — PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA — PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST — PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM — PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY — PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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