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Article: From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- August 1, 2008
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From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle. By James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. Pp. xii, 159. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-431-6; cloth, $39.95, ISBN 1-58544-347-6.)
In 1666, at the age of twenty-three, Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, better known simply as La Salle, found his prospects at home in France limited. Consequently, he journeyed to Montreal to join his brother, a Jesuit priest. In North America La Salle traveled extensively along the Mississippi River system down to the Gulf of Mexico, at one point claiming one-third of the continent for the kingdom of France. In 1683 he ...