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	Jolliet and Marquette: A New History of the 1673 Expedition Mark Walczynski University of Illinois Press, 2023 Library of Congress F352.W185 2023 \| Dewey Decimal 977.01 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. Expand Description
	Juan Bautista de Anza: Basque Explorer in the New World, 1693-1740 Donald T. Garate University of Nevada Press, 2005 Library of Congress F799.A74 2003 \| Dewey Decimal 979.01092 The first biography of an eighteenth-century Basque immigrant who became a silver miner, a cattle rancher, and commander of the cavalry in Sonora, Mexico. The name of Juan Bautista de Anza the younger is a fairly familiar one in the contemporary Southwest because of the various streets, schools, and other places that bear his name. Few people, however, are familiar with his father, the elder Juan Bautista de Anza, whose activities were crucial to the survival of the tenuous and far-flung settlements of Spain’s northernmost colonial frontier. For this first comprehensive biography of the elder Anza, Donald T. Garate spent more than ten years researching archives in Spain and the Americas. The result is a lively picture of the Spanish borderlands and the hardy, ambitious colonists who peopled them. Expand Description
	The Juan Pardo Expeditions: Exploration of the Carolinas and Tennessee, 1566-1568 Charles Hudson. Afterword by David G. Moore, Robin A. Beck Jr., and Christopher B. Rodning University of Alabama Press, 2005 Library of Congress E99.C24P374 2005 \| Dewey Decimal 975.01 An early Spanish explorer’s account of American Indians. This volume mines the Pardo documents to reveal a wealth of information pertaining to Pardo’s routes, his encounters and interactions with native peoples, the social, hierarchical, and political structures of the Indians, and clues to the ethnic identities of Indians known previously only through archaeology. The new afterword reveals recent archaeological evidence of Pardo’s Fort San Juan--the earliest site of sustained interaction between Europeans and Indians--demonstrating the accuracy of Hudson’s route reconstructions. Expand Description

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