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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. Confronting the Haudenosaunee, Searching for Ore, and Allouez in the Upper Country
Copper Mines, Cavelier, and Wisconsin
St. Lusson, Marquette, Jolliet and the Sault, Adrien Jolliet, and Frontenac
St. Ignace to the Des Moines River
From the Illinois Villages to the Illinois River
From the Mississippi to Kaskaskia
Kaskaskia to Lake Michigan and Beyond
Canada, Jolliet, and Marquette
Marquette Returns to Kaskaskia
La Salle Allouez, and Kaskaskia
Hudson Bay, La Salle in the Illinois, and the Recollects
La Salle, the Illinois Country, and the Gulf Epilogue
"Jolliet and Marquette is an engrossing history book that covers an early European expedition into lands unfamiliar to its explores; it is respectful in analyzing the not yet colonized cultures they encountered." —Foreword Reviews
"An authoritative and long-overdue treatment of the historic Jolliet-Marquette voyage of discovery. Walczynski reaffirms and explains what is good in past scholarship while demonstrating where the established histories went off the track. The guiding of the reader up the Illinois River on Marquette and Jolliet's return trip is unparalleled and priceless."—Michael McCafferty, author of Native American Place-Names of Indiana
|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.
A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history.
|PrefaceIntroduction: The Historical Background to 1665
Appendix: Timeline of Events
Notes
Bibliography
Index
|"Absorbing." —Christian Science Monitor"Jolliet and Marquette is an engrossing history book that covers an early European expedition into lands unfamiliar to its explores; it is respectful in analyzing the not yet colonized cultures they encountered." —Foreword Reviews
"An authoritative and long-overdue treatment of the historic Jolliet-Marquette voyage of discovery. Walczynski reaffirms and explains what is good in past scholarship while demonstrating where the established histories went off the track. The guiding of the reader up the Illinois River on Marquette and Jolliet's return trip is unparalleled and priceless."—Michael McCafferty, author of Native American Place-Names of Indiana
|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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