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• Mémoire Historique et Politique sur la Louisiane (in French; Paris: Lepetit Jeune, 1802), by Charles Gravier Vergennes, contrib. by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
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• The History of Louisiana, or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina, by Le Page du Pratz, contrib. by Stanley Clisby Arthur (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Journal of the Last Voyage Perform'd by Monsr. de la Sale, to the Gulph of Mexico, to Find Out the Mouth of the Missisipi River (London: Printed for A. Bell, B. Lintott, and F. Baker, 1714), by Henri Joutel
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• From Quebec to New Orleans; the story of the French in America ... Fort de Chartres (Buechler Pub. Co., 1929), by Joseph H. Schlarman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kolonisation des Mississippitales bis zum Ausgange der französischen Herrschaft. Eine kolonialhistorische Studie (G. Wigand, 1906), by Alexander Franz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Romance of the history of Louisiana. A series of lectures. (D. Appleton & Company;, 1848), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la Louisiane (Imprim�e par Magne & Weisse, 1846), by Charles Gayarr�e (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'histoire merveilleuse de la Louisiane française; chronique des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles et de la cession aux États-Unis. (Éditions de la Maison française, inc., 1941), by Régine Marie Ghislaine Hubert-Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les dernières années de la Louisiane française; le chevalier de Kerlérec, d'Abbadie-Aubry, Laussat. 64 illustrations, 4 cartes. (E. Guilmoto, 1904), by Marc de Villiers du Terrage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Illinois and Louisiana under the French rule; embracing a general view of the French dominion in North America with some account of the English occupation of Illinois (R. Clarke, 1893), by Joseph Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• First establishment of the faith in New France. By Father Christian Le Clercq, Recollect missionary. (J. G. Shea, 1881), by Chrestien Le Clercq, Anastase Douay, Zénobius Membré, and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Capuchins in French Louisiana (1722-1766) (Catholic University of America, 1928), by Claude L. Vogel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mississippi basin ... The struggle in America between England and France 1697-1763 (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historical collections of Louisiana : embracing translations of many rare and valuable documents relating to the natural, civil and political history of the state (Wiley and Putnam [etc., etc.], 1846), by B. F. French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage a la Louisiane : et sur le continent de L'Amérique septentrionale, fait dans les années 1794 à 1798 ; contenant un tableau historique de la Louisiane ; des observations sur son climat, ses riches productions, le caractère et le nom des sauvages ; des remarques importante sur la navigation ; de législation et de gouvernement propres à cette colonie, etc., etc. (Dentu, 1802), by Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du voyage des dames religieuses Ursulines de Rouen a la Nouvelle-Orleans (Maisonneuve etc, 1872), by Marie-Madeleine Hachard, mère St. Agustin de Tranchepain, Gabriel Gravier, Marie Tranchepain de St. Augustin, and Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Louisiane ... (Hachette et cie, 1904), by Eugène Guénin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Genet's projected attack on Louisiana and the Floridas, 1793-94 (UMI Dissertation Services, 1902), by Regina Katharine Crandall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• España y los indios Cherokis y Chactas en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII (Tip. de la "Guia oficial,", 1916), by Manuel Serrano y Sanz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die ersten Deutschen am unteren Mississippi und die Creolen deutscher abstammung : Vortrag, gehalten am 16. September 1904 vor dem "Germanistischen Congress" in der Congresshalle der St. Louiser Weltausstellung (Im selbstverlage des verfassers, 1904), by J. Hanno Deiler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bernardo de Gálvez in Louisiana, 1776-1783 (University of California Press, 1934), by John Walton Caughey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The winning of the West : an account of the exploration and settlement of our country from the Alleghanies to the Pacific (Putnam, 1907), by Theodore Roosevelt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana : its history as a French colony (John Wiley, 1852), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville (Dodd, Mead and company, 1893), by Grace Elizabeth King (page images at HathiTrust)
• The officials of Spanish Louisiana : as deduced from documents in the Bancroft Library : viz., American state papers--public lands. (1909), by Ferne Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684-7. (J. McDonough, 1906), by Henri Joutel and Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France : Avec le journal historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du Roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionnale (Chez la Veuve Ganeau, 1744), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre du Père Jacques Gravier, de la Compagnie de Jésus : Le 23 Fevriér 1708, sur les Affaires de la Louisiane. (De la Cramoisy de Jean-Marie Shea, 1865), by Jacques Gravier and Jesuits (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal historique de l'établissement des Francais á la Louisiane. (A.L. Boimare ;, 1831), by Bernard de La Harpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches of Mr. Ross and Mr. Morris, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, the 24th of February, 1803, in support of Mr. Ross's resolutions relative to the free navigation of the river Mississippi and our right of deposit within the Spanish territories. (Bronson & Chauncey, 1803), by James Ross and Gouverneur Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Diario histórico del último viaje que hizo M. de La Sale para descubrir el desembocadero y curso del Missicipi : contiene la historia trágica de su muerte y muchas cosas curiosas del Nuevo mundo (Impreso por J. Desnoues, 1831), by Henri Joutel and José María Tornel y Mendívil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage (The Caxton Club, 1896), by Henri Joutel, Melville Best Anderson, and Caxton Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• The early history of Illinois, from its discovery by the French, in 1673, until its cession to Great Britain in 1763, including the narrative of Marquette's discovery of the Mississippi. (Myers, 1884), by Sidney Breese, Thomas Hoyne, and Melville Weston Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cession of Louisiana to Spain (Ginn & Co., 1904), by William R. Shepherd (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, sieur de Bienville (Dodd, Mead and company, 1892), by Grace Elizabeth King (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage; a reprint (page for page and line for line) of the first English translation, London, 1714; with the map of the original French edition Paris, 1713, in facsimile (The Caxton club, 1896), by Henri Joutel, Melville Best Anderson, and Caxton Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire, adressée par le gouvernement à tous les habitans de la Louisiane. (s.n., 1794), by Louisiana. Governor (1791-1797 : Carondelet) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The settlement of the German coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German descent (American germanica press, 1909), by J. Hanno Deiler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The speeches of Mr. Ross and Mr. Morris, delivered in the Senate of the United States, Thursday, the 24th of February, 1803, in support of Mr. Ross's resolutions relative to the free navigation of the river Mississippi and our right of deposit within the Spanish territories. (Bronson & Chauncey, 1803), by James Ross and Gouverneur Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
• An address to the government of the United States on the cession of Louisiana to the French, and on the late breach of treaty by the Spaniards : including the translation of a memorial, on the war of St. Domingo, and cession of the Mississippi to France, drawn up by a French counsellor of state. (John Conrad, & co. ;, 1803), by Charles Brockden Brown, Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and William Duane Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish domination of Upper Louisiana (Pub. for the Society, 1914), by Walter Bond Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684-7 (J. McDonough, 1906), by Henri Joutel, Appleton P. C. Griffin, and Henry Reed Stiles (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish flag in Louisiana ([Baltimore, 1918), by Milledge L. Bonham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoire historique et politique sur la Louisiane (A Paris, : Chez Lepetit jeune, libraire, Palais du Tribunat, galerie de bois no. 223, et rue Pavée André-des-Arts, no. 28., An X. [1802], 1802), by Charles Gravier Vergennes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mississippi question : report of a debate in the Senate of the United States, on the 23d, 24th & 25th February, 1803 ... (Printed by W. Duane, 106 High Street, 1803), by 2d session United States. 7th Congress, Jacob Bailey Moore Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), Miscellaneous Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress), and William Duane Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire et description generale de la Nouvelle France. (Pierre-Françoise Giffart, 1744), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix and Jacques Nicolas Bellin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La colonisation de la Louisiane à l'époque de Law, octobre 1717-janvier 1721. (Masson et Cie., 1904), by Henri Gravier and Marcel Dubois (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina : containing a description of the countries that lie on both sides of the river Mississippi: with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate, and products (Pelican Press, 1947), by Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The settlement of the German coast of Louisiana and the Creoles of German descent (R & E Research Associates, 1968), by J. Hanno Deiler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Mississippi basin : the struggle in America between England and France 1697-1763 (Houghton, Mifflin and Co. ;, 1895), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi basin : the struggle in America between England and France, 1697-1763 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journey of Moncacht-Apé, an Indian of the Yazoo tribe, across the continent, about the year 1700 (s.n.], 1883), by Andrew McFarland Davis and Antoine Simon LePage du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the discovery of the Mississippi and on the south-western, Oregon, and north-western boundary of the United States with a translation from the original ms. of memoirs, etc. relating to the discovery of the Mississippi, by Robert Cavelier de La Salle and the Chevalier Henry de Tonty (S. Clarke, 1844), by Thomas Falconer (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Account of Louisiana being an abstract of documents delivered in, or transmitted to Mr. Jefferson, president of the United States of America, and by his laid before Congress and published by their order. (Reprinted for John Hatchard, 1804) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Louisiana, or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina containing a description of the countries that lye on both sides of the river Mississippi : with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate and products (Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt ..., 1763), by Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Illinois and Louisiana under the French rule embracing a general view of the French dominion in North America, with some account of the English occupation of Illinois (R. Clarke, 1893), by Joseph Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoir on the present state of Louisiana (s.n., 1853), by Jean Champigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Canada, from its first discovery comprehending an account of the original establishment of the colony of Louisiana (Printed for T.N. Longman and O. Rees ..., 1804), by George Heriot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Louisiana or of the western parts of Virginia and Carolina containing a description of the countries that lie on both sides of the river Mississippi : with an account of the settlements, inhabitants, soil, climate and products (Printed for T. Becket ..., 1774), by Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana the French domination (W.J. Widdleton, 1866), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Louisiana the Spanish domination (W.J. Widdleton, 1866), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mr. Joutel's journal of his voyage to Mexico his travels eight hundred leagues through forty nations of Indians in Louisiana to Canada, his account of the great river Missasipi [sic] : to which is added a map of that country, with a description of the great waterfalls in the river Misouris [sic]. (Printed for Bernard Lintot ..., 1719), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation du voyage des dames religieuses ursulines de Rouen à la Nouvelle-Orléans (Maisonneuve, 1872), by Marie-Madeleine Hachard and Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage à la Louisiane et sur le continent de l'Amérique septentrionale, fait dans les années 1794 à 1798 contenant un tableau historique de la Louisiane, des observations sur son climat, ses riches productions, le caractère et le nom des sauvages, des remarques importantes sur la navigation, des principes d'administration, de législation et de gouvernement propres à cette colonie, etc. etc. (Dentu, imprimeur-libraire ..., 1802), by Louis Narcisse Baudry des Lozières (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relations de la Louisiane, et du fleuve Mississipi où l'on voit l'état de ce grand païs & les avantages qu'il peut produire &c. (Chez Jean Frederic Bernard, 1720), by J.-Frédéric Bernard (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Louisiane ensanglantée avec toutes les particularités de cette horrible catastrophe, rédigées sur le serment de témoins dignes de foi (Aux dépens de l'éditeur: Chez Fleury Mesplet ..., 1773), by Jean Champigny (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires historiques sur la Louisiane contenant ce qui est arrivé de plus mémorable depuis l'année 1687 jusqu'à présent, avec l'établissement de la colonie françoise dans cette province de l'Amérique septentrionale sous la direction de la Compagnie des Indes, le climat, la nature & les productions de ce pays, l'origine et la religion des sauvages qui l'habitent, leurs moeurs et leurs coutumes, &c. (Chez Cl. J.B. Bauche ..., 1753), by époque 1721 Dumont de Montigny and Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Etat-présent de la Louisiane avec toutes les particularités de cette province d'Amérique : pour servir de suite à l'Histoire des établissemens des Européens dans les deux Indes [de G.T. Raynal] (Chez Frédéric Staatman, 1776), by Jean Champigny and Guillaume Thomas Raynal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettre du Père Jacques Gravier, de la Compagnie de Jésus, le 23 février 1708, sur les affaires de la Louisiane (Presse Cramoisy de J.-M. Shea, 1865), by Jacques Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la Louisiane contenant la découverte de ce vaste pays; sa description géographique; un voyage dans les terres; l'histoire naturelle; les moeurs, coûtumes & religion des naturels, avec leurs origines; deux voyages dans le nord du Nouveau Mexique, dont un jusqu'à la mer du Sud; ornée de deux cartes & de 40 planches en taille douce (Chez de Bure, l'aîné ... la veuve Delaguette ... Lambert ..., 1758), by Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la Louisiana (Chez de Bure, l'aîné ... la veuve Delaguette ... Lambert ..., 1758), by Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du roy qui ordonne qu' il ne sera plus envoyé de vagabongs, gens sans aveû, fraudeurs et criminels à la Louisianne, que les ordres qe Sa Majesté auroit pû donner à ce sujet seront changez ... 9 mai 1720. ([s.n.], 1720), by France Conseil d'État (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal de la guerre du Micissippi [sic] contre les Chicachas en 1739 et finie en 1740, le 1er d'avril (s.n.], 1859), by Officier de l'armée de M. De Nouaille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire historique et politique sur la Louisiane (Chez Lepetit jeune, libraire ..., an 10, 1802), by Charles Gravier Vergennes and Turgot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire de la Louisiane (s.n.], 1846), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• An account of Louisiana exhibiting a compendious sketch of its political and natural history and topography, with a copious appendix containing several important documents. (Franklin & Garrow, 1804), by Antoine Simone Le Page du Pratz and François-Xavier Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana its colonial history and romance (Harper, 1851), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louisiana its history as a French colony, third series of lectures (J. Wiley, 1852), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal historique de l'établissement des Français à la Louisiane (A.-L. Boimare, 1831), by Jean Baptiste Bénard de La Harpe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai historique sur la Louisiane (s.n.], 1830), by Charles Gayarré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arrest du Conseil d'Estat du roy, concernant la retrocession faite à Sa Majesté par la Compagnie des Indes, de la concession de la Loü isianne & du pays des Illinois du 23. janvier 1731, extrait des registres du Conseil d'Estat. (De l'Imprimerie royale, 1731), by France Conseil d'État (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proclamation le gouvernement ayant été informé par le ministre plénipotentiaire de Sa Majesté auprès des États-Unis d'Amérique, qu'une expédition rassemblée sur les lacs devait attaquer cet été les Illinois ... (s.n., 1797), by François Louis Hector Carondelet and Louisiane. Gouverneur (1792-1797 : Carondelet) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last voyage perform'd by de la Sale. (Readex Microprint, 1966), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The administration of Estevan Miro in Spanish Louisiana 1784-1791, with an appendix of translations from the original of Spanish documents 1781-1791 (1926), by Lucile Elizabeth Derr (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beginnings of American penetration into the Louisiana country (1927), by Lawrence Kinnaird (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of Illinois and Louisiana under the French rule; embracing a general view of the French dominion in North America with some account of the English occupation of Illinois. (R. Clarke, 1899), by Joseph Wallace (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The journey of Moncacht-Apé; an Indian of the Yazoo tribe, across the continent, about the year 1700. (Printed by Charles Hamilton, 1883), by Andrew McFarland Davis, Le Page du Pratz, and American Antiquarian Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Louisiane á la fin du XVIIIe siècle (E. Champion, 1914), by G. Desdevises du Dezert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Memoires sur la Louisiane (Chez Cl. J.B. Bauche, 1753), by Dumont de Montigny, Georges-Marie Butel-Dumont, and Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The concessions of Louisiana 1719-1763. ([Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1927., 1927), by Edward Maceo Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Illinois and Louisiana under the French rule embracing a general view of the French dominion in North America with some account of the English occupation of Illinois (R. Clarke, 1893), by Joseph Wallace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's Journal of La Salle's Last Voyage, 1684-7, by Henri Joutel, contrib. by Appleton P. C. Griffin and Henry Reed Stiles (Gutenberg ebook)

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