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• Au Mississipi: La Premiere Exploration (1673) (in French; Paris: H. Champion, 1903), by Alfred Hamy, contrib. by Jacques Marquette and Ernest Gagnon
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• Discovery and Exploration of the Mississippi Valley: With the Original Narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin and Anastase Douay (Clinton Hall, NY: Redfield, 1852), by John Gilmary Shea
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• An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and Through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans, La Platte, and Pierre Jaun, Rivers (Philadelphia, 1810), by Zebulon Montgomery Pike (Javascript-dependent page images at americanjourneys.org)
• Heroes of the Middle West: The French (Boston: Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Explorations of Père Marquette (c1951), by Jim Kjelgaard (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Discovery of the Great West (1870 edition), by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg text)
• Louis Jolliet, découvreur du Mississippi et du pays des Illinois, premier seigneur de l'île d'Anticosti : étude biographique et historiographique. (Beauchemin, limitée, 1913), by Ernest Gagnon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown and company, 1879), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Au Mississippi; la première exploration (1673). Le père Jacques Marquette de Laon ... (1637-1675) et Louis Jolliet, d'après m. Ernest Gagnon (H. Champion, 1903), by Alfred Hamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La route du Mississipi ... (G. Crépin-Leblond, 1878), by Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la Salle et ses relations inédites de la découverte du Mississippi : (extrait de la géologie pratique de la Louisiane) (Librairie de Charles Douniol, 1859), by Raymond Thomassy and Robert Cavelier La Salle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of explorations in the basin of the Mississippi. Volume I-[VIII]. (St. Paul, Minnesota, U. S. A., 1898), by J. V. Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota : Discovery of its area, 1540-1665 (H. L. Collins, 1903), by J. V. Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi River and its source : a narrative and critical history of the discovery of the river and its headwaters, accompanied by the results of detailed hydrographic and topographic surveys (Harrison & Smith, 1893), by J. V. Brower, A. J. Hill, A. J. Hill, and Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récit de Nicolas de La Salle (The Caxton Club, 1898), by Nicolas de La Salle and Melville Best Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opening of the Mississippi: a struggle for supremacy in the American interior (The Macmillan company, 1904), by Frederic Austin Ogg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early voyages up and down the Mississippi (J. Munsell, 1902), by John Gilmary Shea, Joseph McDonough, Louis Ignace Guignas, Jacques Gravier, Pierre Charles Le Sueur, Jean François de St. Cosme Buisson, and Jean Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi : comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally & Company, 1893), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the discovery of the Mississippi, and on the south-western, Oregon, and north-western boundary of the United States. (S. Clarke, 1844), by Thomas Falconer, Henri de Tonti, and Robert Cavelier La Salle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some La Salle journeys (Institute of Jesuit history, 1938), by Jean Delanglez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jolliet-Marquette expedition 1673 (Franciscan fathers, 1928), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extrait / de la / relation / des / avantures et voyage (A la Presse Cramoisy de J.M. Shea. /, 1863), by Mathieu Sâgean (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Franciscan Père Marquette; a critical biography of Father Zénobe Membré, O. F. M., La Salle's chaplain and missionary companion, 1645 (ca.)-1689, with maps and original narratives (J. F. Wagner, inc., 1934), by Marion Alphonse Habig, Chrétien Le Clerq, and Henri de Tonti (page images at HathiTrust)
• America: its geographical history 1492-1892; six lectures delivered to graduate students of the Johns Hopkins University (The Johns Hopkins Press, 1892), by Walter B. Scaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• A symposium on the place of discovery of the Mississippi River by Hernando de Soto ... (Printed for the Society, 1927), by Dunbar Rowland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découvertes et établissements des français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1614-1754) (Impr. D. Jouaust, 1876), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown and company, 1888), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West : France and England in North America, part third (Little, Brown, 1910), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cavelier de la Salle (A. Challamel, 1898), by Eugène Guénin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay (J. McDonough, 1903), by John Gilmary Shea, Anastase Douay, Zénobius Membré, Louis Hennepin, Claude Allouez, and Jacques Marquette (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the Great West (Little, Brown, 1902), by Francis Parkman and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discovery of the Great West (Little, Brown, 1869), by Francis Parkman and Earl W. De La Vergne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from the Secretary of War : transmitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 24th ultimo, information in relation to an expedition of Henry R. Schoolcraft into the Indian country. (s.n., 1832), by United States War Department and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage et découverte de quelques pays et nations de l'Amberique Septentrionale ([Impr. de Maulde et Renou, 1845), by Jacques Marquette and O. Rich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jolliet-Marquette expedition, 1673. (Franciscan Fathers, 1928), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally & company, 1894), by Willard W. Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of Louisiana (Ann Arbor, [Mich], University Microfilms, 1966), by Louis Hennepin and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society. Volume VIII. (The Society, 1898), by Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Minnesota Historical Society collections (Minnesota Historical Society, 1901), by Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• The location of La Salle's colony on the Gulf of Mexico (Austin, Tex., 1900), by Herbert Eugene Bolton (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. France and England in North America, part third. (Little, Brown, 1921), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West, France and England in North America, part third. (Little, Brown, and company, 1926), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de LaSalle (Allerton Book Co., 1922), by Isaac Joslin Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découvertes et établissements des Français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1614-1754) : mémoires et documents originaux (Impr. D. Jouaust, 1876), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley: with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay. (Redfield, 1852), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. France and England in North America. Part third. (Little, Brown, and company, 1897), by Francis Parkman (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)
• The bursting of Pierre Margry's La Salle bubble. (T.B. Sidebotham, printer, 1879), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jolliet-Marquette expedition, 1673 (Catholic University of America, 1927), by Francis Borgia Steck (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Little, Brown, and company, 1894), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown, 1874), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Little, Brown, 1878), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi : comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1897), by Willard W. Glazier (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 discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown, 1870), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the middle West : the French (Ginn and Company, 1898), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi : comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand McNally, 1894), by Willard W. Glazier and Pearce Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand McNally, 1901), by Willard W. Glazier and Pearce Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• America, its geographical history 1492-1892 six lectures delivered to graduate students of the Johns Hopkins university; with a supplement entitled Was the Rio del Espiritu Santo of the Spanish geographers the Mississippi? (The Johns Hopkins press, 1892), by Walter Bell Scaife (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the Great West (Little, Brown, and company, 1905), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Itasca State Park : an illustrated history (McGill-Warner, printers, 1904), by J. V. Brower (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découvertes et établissements des Français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique septentrionale, 1614-1698 (AMS Press, 1974), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi : comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1898), by Willard W. Glazier (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)
• A description of Louisiana (J.G. Shea, 1880), by Louis Hennepin and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of Henri de Tonty concerning the explorations of La Salle from 1678 to 1683 (The Caxton club, 1898), by Henri de Tonti (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley (Effingham Maynard & Co., 1890), by John Gilmary Shea (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)
• Discovery of the Mississippi. (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early voyages up and down the Mississippi (J. Munsell, 1861), by John Gilmary Shea, Louis Ignace Guignas, Jacques Gravier, Pierre Le Sueur, Jean Cavelier, and Jean-François de St. Cosme Buisson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schoolcraft and Allen--expedition to northwest Indians : letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a map and report of Lieut. Allen and H.B. [i.e. R.] Schoolcraft's visit to the northwest Indians in 1832. (Gales and Seaton, 1834), by United States. War Dept, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and James Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Macmillan, 1899), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Letter from the Secretary of War : in answer to a resolution of the House, of December 20, 1866, transmitting report of the Chief of Engineers, with General Warren's report of the surveys of the Upper Mississippi river and its tributaries. (s.n.], 1867), by United States. War Dept (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découverte par mer des bouches du Mississippi et établissements de Lemoyne d'Iberville sur le golfe du Mexique (1694-1703) (AMS Press, 1974), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley : with the original narratives of Marquette, Allouez, Membré, Hennepin, and Anastase Douay (Redfield, 1853), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Louis Jolliet, découvreur du Mississippi et du pays des Illinois, premier seigneur de l'île d'Anticosti: étude biographique et historiographique. (Québec, 1902), by Ernest Gagnon, Jean Baptiste Antoine Ferland, Thomas Chapais, Jean-B.-A. Ferland, Charles de Guise, and Jules Tailhan (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown, and company, 1907), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West, France and England in North America, part third. (Little, Brown, and company, 1925), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires et documents pour servirà l'histoire des origines francaises des pays d'outre-mer : découvertes et établissements des Francais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1614-1754). (Maisonneuve et cie., 1879), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West : France and England in North America. Part third. (Little, Brown, 1907), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Documents, papers, materials and publications relating to the Northwest and the state of Illinois (H.W. Rokker Co., 1903), by H. W. Beckwith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recit des voyages et des decouvertes du R. Père Jacques Marquette de la Compagnie de Jesus, en l'année 1673 et aux suivantes; la continuation de ses voyages par le R.P. Claude Alloüez, et Le journal autographe du P. Marquette en 1674 & 1675. Avec la carte de son voyage tracée de sa main. Imprimé d'après le manuscrit original restant au Collège Ste Marie à Montréal. (Imprimerie de Weed, Parsons & cie., 1855), by Jacques Marquette and Claude Allouez (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West : France and England in North America, Part Third (Little, Brown, and Co., 1900), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi River and its source a narrative and critical history of the discovery of the river and its headwaters, accompanied by the results of detailed hydrographic and topographic surveys (s.n.], 1893), by Jacob Vradenberg Brower and Alfred James Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sources of the Mississippi their discoveries, real and pretended : a report read before the Minnesota Historical Society, February 8, 1887 (s.n.], 1887), by James H. Baker and Minnesota Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1895), by Willard Glazier (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 ; and notes by Melville B. Anderson. (Caxton Club, 1896), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation of the discovery of the Mississippi River (Caxton Club, 1898), by Nicolas de La Salle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Marquette at Chicago from Marquette's Narrative and Dablon's Relation. (s.n., 1896), by Jacques Marquette, John Gilmary Shea, Edward G. Mason, and Claude Dablon (page images at HathiTrust)
• America, its geographical history, 1492-1892 six lectures delivered to graduate students of the Johns Hopkins University, with a supplement entitled Was the Rio des Espiritu Santo of the Spanish geographers the Mississippi? (Johns Hopkins Press, 1892), by Walter B. Scaife (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)
• Diario historico 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 (J. Desnoues, 1831), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Captain Glazier and his lake an inquiry into the history and progress of exploration at the head-waters of the Mississippi since the discovery of Lake Itasca (Ivison, Blakeman, 1886), by Henry D. Harrower and Willard Glazier (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (G.N. Morang, 1898), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joutel's historical journal of Monsieur de la Salle's last voyage to discover the river Mississippi (s.n., 1846), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 Mississippi River containing, an account of the settlements he endeavour'd to make on the coast of the aforesaid bay, his unfortunate death, and the travels of his companions for the space of eight hundred leagues across that inland country of America now call'd Louisiana, (and given by the King of France to M. Crozat,) till they came into Canada (Printed for A. Bell ... B. Lintott ... and J. Baker ..., 1714), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (G.N. Morang, 1899), by Francis Parkman (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)
• La découverte du Mississipi avec notice sur les explorateurs De Soto, Jolliet, Marquette et de La Salle : suivies du récit des voyages et découvertes du R.P. Jacques Marquette, de la Compagnie de Jésus. (s.n.], 1873), by L.-É. Bois and Jacques Marquette (page images at HathiTrust)
• La route du Mississippi (s.n.], 1878), by Gabriel Gravier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Extrait de la relation des aventures et voyage de Mathieu Sâgean (s.n.], 1863), by Mathieu Sâgean (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)
• Histoire critique de la découverte du Mississipi [sic] (1669-1673) d'après les documents inédits du ministère de la marine (s.n., 1872), by Henry Harrisse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique pour trouver l'embouchure & le cours de la riviere de Missicipi, nommée à present la riviere de Saint Louis qui traverse la Louisiane : où l'on voit l'histoire tragique de sa mort, & plusieurs choses curieuses du Nouveau Monde (Chez Estienne Robinot, Libraire ..., 1713), by Henri Joutel and Monsieur de Michel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Récit des voyages et des découvertes du R. Père Jacques Marquette de la Compagnie de Jésus, en l'année 1673 et aux Suivantes; la continuation de ses voyages par le R.P. Claude Alloüez, et le journal autographe du P. Marquette en 1674 & 1675 avec la carte de son voyage tracée de sa main. (s.n.], 1855), by Jacques Marquette (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address delivered before the Missouri Historical Society, July 19, 1878 the anniversary of the discovery of the Mississippi by Marquette and Joliet (s.n.], 1878), by John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early voyages up and down the Mississippi by Cavelier, St. Cosme, Le Sueur, Gravier, and Guignas (J. Munsell, 1861), by John Gilmary Shea and Jean Cavelier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découverte du Mississipi [sic] en 1659 (J. Hope, 1903), by Benjamin Sulte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire critique de la découverte du Mississipi (1669-1673) : d'après les documents inédits du Ministère de la marine. (Imprimerie et Librairie Administratives, 1872), by Henry Harrisse (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Little, Brown, 1898), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Découvertes et établissements des franc̜ais dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale 1614-[1754] (Maisonneuve et Cie., 1879), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Little, Brown, and Company, 1891), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last voyage perform'd by de la Sale. (Readex Microprint, 1966), by Henri Joutel (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West (Little, Brown and company, 1891), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. Part third. (Little, Brown & co., 1921), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown, and Company, 1901), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trails of the French explorers (Naylor Co., 1956), by Marion S. Scanlon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. (Little, Brown, and company, 1942), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. France and England in North America, part third. (Little, Brown, and company, 1911), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• A full and impartial account of the Company of Mississippi, otherwise call'd the French East-India-Company, projected and settled by Mr. Law. Wherein the nature of that establishment and the almost incredible advantages thereby accruing to the French king, and a great number of his subjects, are clearly explain'd and made out. With an account of the establishment of the Bank of Paris, by the said Mr. Law. To which are added, a description of the country of Mississippi, and a relation of the first discovery of it: in two letters from a gentleman to his friend. In French and English. London, R. Francklin [etc.] 1720. ([Boston, 1940) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Découvertes et établissements des français dans l'ouest et dans le sud de l'Amérique Septentrionale (1614-1754) (Impr. D. Jouaust, 1876), by Pierre Margry (page images at HathiTrust)
• A description of Louisiana. (J.G. Shea, 1880), by Louis Hennepin and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Salle and the discovery of the great West. France and England in North America. Part third. (Little, Brown, 1902), by Francis Parkman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Headwaters of the Mississippi : comprising biographical sketches of early and recent explorers of the great river, and a full account of the discovery and location of its true source in a lake beyond Itasca (Rand, McNally, 1898), by Willard W. Glazier (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)
• Narrative of an Expedition Through the Upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, the Actual Source of This River: Embracing an Exploratory Trip Through the St. Croix and Burntwood (or Broule) Rivers, by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (Gutenberg ebook)
• France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West, by Francis Parkman (Gutenberg ebook)

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