The book The Rival Claimants for North America. 1497-1755 was written by author Winsor, Justin, 1831-1897 Here you can read free online of The Rival Claimants for North America. 1497-1755 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Rival Claimants for North America. 1497-1755 a good or bad book?
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It was left for Joliet and Marquette, a few years later, not to discover the Mississippi, but to reach the truth of its flow, and for La Salle to con- firm it. These latter explorations of the priest and trader gave the French such rights as came from traversing throughout the water-ways, which led with slight interruption from the water back of Newfoundland, to the Mexican gulf. In due time this immense valley of the Mississippi was entered by the British traders, as they discovered pass after... pass through the mountain barrier, all the way from New York to Carolina. The French, indeed, had permanent settlements along the Illinois and on the lower Mississippi, but in other parts of the great valley, there is little doubt that wandering Britons were quite as familiar as the French trader or adventurer to the Indians. If the evidence is not to be disputed, there was among these hardy British adven- turers, a certain John Howard, who was, perhaps, the first, on the English part, to travel the whole course of one of the great ramifications of the valley.
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