ABOUT THIS BOOK
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland.

A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Mark Walczynski is a retired faculty member at Illinois Valley Community College and the Park Historian for the Starved Rock Foundation. He is the author of The History of Starved Rock.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction: The Historical Background to 1665

1. Confronting the Haudenosaunee, Searching for Ore, and Allouez in the Upper Country
2. Copper Mines, Cavelier, and Wisconsin
3. St. Lusson, Marquette, Jolliet and the Sault, Adrien Jolliet, and Frontenac
4. St. Ignace to the Des Moines River
5. From the Illinois Villages to the Illinois River
6. From the Mississippi to Kaskaskia
7. Kaskaskia to Lake Michigan and Beyond
8. Canada, Jolliet, and Marquette
9. Marquette Returns to Kaskaskia
10. La Salle Allouez, and Kaskaskia
11. Hudson Bay, La Salle in the Illinois, and the Recollects
12. La Salle, the Illinois Country, and the Gulf
Epilogue

Appendix: Timeline of Events

Notes

Bibliography

Index