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Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet , 1645-1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedit... Read more
Portage
Portage . 1 Town (1990 pop. 29,060), Porter co., NW Ind., a suburb of Gary, on Lake Michigan; inc. 1959. The town, which was once surrounded by great industries, manufactures steel and a number of other goods. It is also a shipping center; Burns International Harbor, built in the 1970s, accommodat... Read more
Jacques Marquette
Jacques Marquette , 1637-75, French missionary and explorer in North America, a Jesuit priest. He was sent to New France in 1666 and studied Native American languages under a missionary at Trois Rivières . In 1668 he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa, spent a winter at Sault Ste Marie, ... Read more
Lake Erie
Lake Erie 9,940 sq mi (25,745 sq km), 241 mi (388 km) long and from 30 to 57 mi (48-92 km) wide, bordered on the N by S Ont., Canada, on the E by W N.Y., on the S by NW Pa. and N Ohio, and on the W by SE Mich. and NW Ohio.; fourth largest of the Great Lakes . It is 572 ft (174 m) above sea level w... Read more
Missouri
Missouri river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the mouth... Read more
exploration
exploration travel to a part of the earth that is relatively unknown to the traveler's culture, historically often motivated by a desire for colonization, conquest, or trade. See also space exploration , geography , and articles on localities, e.g., Africa , Arctic, the , Australia . ... Read more
Missouri
Missouri , one of the midwestern states of the United States. It is bordered by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, across the Mississippi R. (E), Arkansas (S), Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (W), and Iowa (N). Facts and Figures Area, 69,686 sq mi (180,487 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,595,211,... Read more
Mississippi
Mississippi river, principal river of the United States, c.2,350 mi (3,780 km) long, exceeded in length only by the Missouri River, the chief of its numerous tributaries. The combined Missouri-Mississippi system (from the Missouri's headwaters in the Rocky Mts. to the mouth of the Mississippi River... Read more
Chicago
Chicago , city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. The third largest city in the United States and the heart of a metropolitan area of over 8 million people, it is the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center for a vast region and a midcontine... Read more
Arkansas
Arkansas , state in the south-central United States. It is bordered by Tennessee and Mississippi, across the Mississippi R. (E), Louisiana (S), Texas and Oklahoma (W), and Missouri (N). Facts and Figures Area, 53,104 sq mi (137,539 sq km). Pop. (2000) 2,673,400, a 13.7% increase since ... Read more

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Louis Jolliet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) was a Canadian explorer, musician, hydrographer, fur trader, and teacher. The most famous exploit in the career of this multifaceted man was the exploration of the Mississippi River in 1673. The...
Jolliet, Louis
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Jolliet, Louis (1645–1700) French-Canadian explorer. With Jacques Marquette, he opened the Great Lakes region and travelled down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Arkansas River (1673).
Louis de Buade Frontenac, comte de Palluau et de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Louis de Buade Frontenac, comte de Palluau et...Canada. His policy was not acceptable to Louis XIV and to his minister Jean Colbert, and...indigenous peoples, forwarded explorations by Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and the sieur de La...
Louis Joliet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Louis Joliet see Jolliet, Louis .
Jacques Marquette
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Mackinac). In December 1672 Louis Jolliet arrived at St-Ignace, carrying...in mid-May 1673 Marquette and Jolliet left together on their epic exploration...Ignace. There they had to stop. Jolliet, although he spoke six Indian languages...
Jean Talon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...intendant of Hainaut. When, in 1663, Louis XIV placed his American colonies...of the colony. In 1672 Talon sent Louis Jolliet to discover the outlet of a river...but was persuaded by Colbert and Louis XIV to go back to the colony for...
Missouri
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...American tribes. French fur trader Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette, a...established a community near St. Louis, eventually they built the first...Missouri to make homes in the St. Louis area. Between 1852 and 1870 the...
Mississippi River
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...seen by French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet (1645 – 1700) and French...naming it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV (1638 – 1715). After...to the interior territories. St. Louis, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee...
Sieur de La Salle
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...A few leagues farther on they reached the point where Louis Jolliet's expedition had turned about in 1673. La Salle reached...and claims that were complete falsehoods, prevailed on Louis XIV to restore La Salle to favor and assist in the scheme...
Arkansas
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...Father Jacques Marquette (1637 – 1675) and Louis Jolliet (1645 – 1700) entered the territory, as...two largest landowners in Grant County were the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad and the Muskegon Lumber Company...

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Jolliet-Marquette Explorations
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History JOLLIET-MARQUETTE EXPLORATIONS JOLLIET-MARQUETTE EXPLORATIONS. Louis Jolliet was a native of New France who, after being educated at the Jesuit schools of Quebec, embarked on a career of exploration in the far western country during the seventeenth...
Hennepin, Louis, Narratives of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...of exploration written by Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan friar born...usually attributed to de la Salle and Louis Jolliet. His third narrative, The New Voyage...earlier works. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hennepin, Louis. Father Louis Hennepin's Description...
Chicago
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...In 1673, the French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette led...the wild garlic or skunkweed, but Jolliet recognized the site's strategic...The French government ignored Jolliet's recommendation to construct...
Illinois
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...present-day East St. Louis. Here at least twenty...French Jesuit priest, and Louis Jolliet (Joliet) explored the...the Mississippi River. Jolliet observed that a canal...Peoria, and Fort St. Louis, at Starved Rock near...
Mackinac, Straits of, and Mackinac Island
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...wintered in 1670 with the Huron, and, in 1673, Louis Jolliet launched his successful search for the Mississippi River...Trapping ; Indian Intermarriage ; Indian Missions ; Jolliet-Marquette Explorations ; Michigan ; Portages and Water...
Missouri
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...a microcosm of the nation. St. Louis, with more than 2.5 million people...when Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet, early French explorers, came to...Auguste Chouteau, founded St. Louis, some one hundred miles north and...
Missouri River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...miles. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the mouth of the Missouri...Mississippi (ten miles north of Saint Louis). The lower part of the Missouri...Independence, which pushed off from Saint Louis in 1819, reached Old Franklin in...
Mississippi River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...clear waters of the Mississippi River just north of St. Louis, Missouri. At this point, the Mississippi becomes...Over a century later, in 1673, the French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette entered the Mississippi...
Mississippi Valley
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...European to document seeing the Mississippi Valley in 1541. He was followed by Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet in 1673, Louis Hennepin in 1679, and Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle in 1682. France, Spain, and England claimed portions...
Lakes-to-Gulf Deep Waterway
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...WATERWAY LAKES-TO-GULF DEEP WATERWAY. In 1673, Louis Jolliet noted the favorable possibilities for a canal to connect...were completed during 1938 – 1939. Near Saint Louis, Missouri, a lateral canal with locks opened in 1953...

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Man with a mission.(Jacques Marquette )(Biography)
Magazine article from: Michigan History for Kids Magazine; 9/22/2001; 700+ words ; ...While Marquette was at Sault Ste. Marie he met Louis Jolliet. Born in Canada, Jolliet was a fur trader and a skilled mapmaker. Both Marquette and Jolliet had heard Native Americans talk about a great...
Rich, undisturbed land first home to Native Americans
Newspaper article from: Herald News, The (Joliet, IL); 4/1/2001; 700+ words ; ...here saw their first white men. Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer...and U.S. 6 on the south. When Jolliet camped there, the explorer liked...return and create a settlement here. Jolliet saw the buffalo herds and dreamed...
The making of Chicago
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 3/1/1987; ; 700+ words ; ...CAPTION ENDS)) Louis Jolliet was searching for gold...through someday Chicago, Jolliet and Marquette stood for...financial collapse. Jolliet, our forefather. He...Daniel H. Burnham and Louis Sullivan, and to a few...
PARKS STUDENTS SHOW WHY JOLIET IS `MY KIND OF TOWN'
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 6/6/2000; 700+ words ; ...the limestone prison and from Louis Jolliet to Col. Frederick Bartleson...traces the city's history from Louis Jolliet's discovery of this location...library and its bronze statue of Louis Jolliet. Like Central High School, which...
Chicago street names map out history
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/13/1988; 700+ words ; ...He and Quebec-born explorer Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to visit...passed through the area in 1673, Jolliet was said to have told Marquette...Marquette was seeking to save souls; Jolliet was searching for gold. La Salle...
A tale of two cities.(history in your hometown: MACKINAW CITY & ST. IGNACE)(City overview)
Magazine article from: Michigan History Magazine; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...1672, Marquette received news that he was to accompany Louis Jolliet, a skilled cartographer and experienced explorer, on...In 1698, a depressed fur market in France led King Louis XIV to close Fort de Buade. The French soldiers left...
City bridges past with future; Prairie du Chien provides vital links for rural area
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 11/25/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...1670s with the arrival of Frenchmen Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet. A fur-trading post was established in 1685. The French...numerous events take place annually. The famed Villa Louis State Historic Site sits on the island. "Many communities...
DEDICATED TO PRESERVING THE PAST | WILL COUNTY HISTORY SOCIETY PLANS ANNUAL DINNER
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 10/8/2000; 700+ words ; ...Canal, including the early planning of the canal by Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette, as well as resident quarters...people know that Joliet was named after the explorer Louis Jolliet. What many people do not know is that the city was...
Site of Indian village saved for the sifting
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 8/11/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...Father Jacques) Marquette and (Louis) Jolliet first met the Indians . . . a major...exchange with tribes near modern St. Louis. Kaskaskia Indians, part of the...preservation agency. When Marquette and Jolliet arrived in August, 1673, the Kaskaskia...
River shaped area's history, development
Newspaper article from: Mount Prospect Times (IL); 1/7/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...history of the river begins in 1673, when French explorer Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette traveled the waterway...wanted to bring Christianity to the native people, Jolliet sought a passage to the south sea by way of the Mississippi...