La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de

Original narratives are translated in I. J. Cox, The Journeys of René Robert Cavelier, Sieur da la Salle (2 vol., 1922; repr. 1973). A classic account is F. Parkman's La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West (1889, repr. 1968). See biographies by R. F. Lockridge (1931) and E. B. Osler (1967).

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