Father Marquette
This biorgraphy is the result of careful investigation into every phase of Father Marquette's brief life, a few days short of thirty-eight years, 1637-1675. The reader may learn here for...
A short biography of the French missionary who explored the northern extreme of the Mississippi River to see if it was the Northwest Passage
Describes the lives of Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest, and Louis Jolliet, a fur trader, and their expedition along the Mississippi River to bring Christianity to and trade furs with Native Americans.
Father Pere Marquette, S.J., a Jesuit Priest in the early 1600's on the North American Continent, gained the confidence of the Indians, not only with his Catholic Religion, but his wisdom and understanding of the American Indian, and his ...
Father Marquette
The Explorations of Pere Marquette
An account of the expedition led by two Frenchmen, a soldier and a priest, to explore the Mississippi River in the late seventeenth century.
An introductory biography of Baraga, lengthy passages from his letters, vignettes about persons in the text and a comprehensive bibliography yield an in-depth portrait of mid-nineteenth century life, especially in Michigan's Upper Peninsula ...
A biography of the two seventeenth-century French explorers who were the first to chart the course of the Mississippi River.