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This is an 1880 book, France and England in North America - A Series of Historical Narratives Part Third - La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West by Francis Parkman. 12th edition, published by Little, Brown and Co. 482 pages. This is one in a series of volumes. A great work of North American History as told by the men who lived it . Parkman was given access to volumes of original documents , as in official reports , letters , dairies and early histories in French and English . Though very American in his views he is fair and give the French their due . His work shows the strengths and weakness of both societies as manifested in their respective colonies. The discovery of the “Great West,” or the valleys of the Mississippi and the Lakes, is a portion of our history hitherto very obscure. Those magnificent regions were revealed to the world through a series of daring enterprises, of which the motives and even the incidents have been but partially and superficially known. The third volume of Parkman's massive history of the settlement of eastern North America is subtitled The Great West, and is concerned, in large part, with LaSalle's expeditons. While Parkman's personal prejudices are regularly annoying, England and France in North America was the first thorough study of the topic, and Parkman went to considerable effort to research and document his work. Condition: Thanks for looking ! r26 |