A look at the life of French explorer René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle--who became famous for his exploration of many lakes and rivers in North America--and the development of New France.

Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.

Takes the reader through daily life at posts like Forts Saint Louis and Michilimakinac. This work illuminates the complexities of interracial marriage with the courtship of Michel Aco at Peoria, and explains how France's New World adventurism played a role in the outbreak of the Seven Years War and the beginning of the modern era.

Concerns Robert La Salle's explorations in North America.

In this collection of essays that marked the tricentennial of La Salle's expedition, thirteen scholars assess his legacy and the significance of French colonialism in the Southeast