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• Some Considerations on the Consequences of the French Settling Colonies on the Mississippi, With Respect to the Trade and Safety of the English Plantations in America and the West-Indies (London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1720), by James Smith (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Heroes of the Middle West: The French (Boston: Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The United States and Spain in 1790: An Episode in Diplomacy Described from Hitherto Unpublished Sources (Winnowings in American History Diplomatic Series #1; Brooklyn: Historical Printing Club, 1890), ed. by Worthington Chauncey Ford
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• Pinckney's Treaty: A Study of America's Advantage From Europe's Distress, 1783-1800 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1926), by Samuel Flagg Bemis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pinckney's treaty; a study of America's advantage from Europe's distress, 1783-1800 (The John Hopkins press, 1926), by Samuel Flagg Bemis, Spain, and United States (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Great Britain and the Illinois country, 1763-1774 (The American Historical Association, 1910), by Clarence Edwin Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some considerations on the consequences of the French settling colonies on the Mississippi, with respect to the trade and safety of the English plantations in America and the West-Indies. ([Cincinnati?, 1928), by Cincinnati Historical Society (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• French post, Lake Pepin, Minnesota. (Pioneer Press Co., 1887), by Edward D. Neill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of history, life, and manners, in the West (Harrison Hall, 1835), by James Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi Valley in British politics (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1917), by Clarence Walworth Alvord (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)
• History of Cavelier de La Salle, 1643-1687; explorations in the valleys of the Ohio, Illinois and Mississippi, taken from his letters, reports to King Louis XIV, also the reports of several of his associates, official acts and contemporaneous documents. (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1932), by Paul Chesnel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pittman's European settlements on the Mississippi (Cleveland : Arthur H. Clark Company, 1906., 1906), by Philip Pittman and Frank Heywood Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Mississippi Valley, from its discovery to the end of foreign domination. (A. S. Clark, 1903), by John Randolph Spears and Alzamore H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• The westward movement. The colonies and the republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1897), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Spanish regime in Missouri; a collection of papers and documents relating to upper Louisiana principally within the present limits of Missouri during the dominion of Spain, from the Archives of the Indies at Seville, etc., translated from the original Spanish into English, and including also some papers concerning the supposed grant to Col. George Morgan at the mouth of the Ohio, found in the Congressional library (R. R. Donnelley & sons company, 1909), by Louis Houck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Cartier to Frontenac... Geographical discovery in the interior of North America in its historical relations, 1534-1700 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1894), by Justin Winsor and Woodrow Wilson Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barthélemi Tardiveau, a French trader in the West; biographical sketch, including letters from B. Tardiveau to St. John de Crèvecœur (1788-1789) (Johns Hopkins Press, 1938), by Howard C. Rice and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• History and general description of New France. (Loyola University Press, 1962), by Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A description of Louisiana (Ann Arbor, [Mich], University Microfilms, 1966), by Louis Hennepin and John Gilmary Shea (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• History of the valley of the Mississippi (Moore, Anderson, Wilstach & Keys, 1853), by Adolphus M. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The romance of western history : or, Sketches of history, life, and manners in the West (Applegate & Co., 1857), by James Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Border wars of the West : comprising the frontier wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Wisconsin ; and embracing individual adventures among the Indians, and exploits of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Brady, Poe, Morgan, the Whetzels, and other border heroes of the West (Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856), by John Frost (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)
• History of the discovery of the valley of the Mississippi (A.M. Hart, 1852), by Adolphus M. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Border wars of the West : comprising the frontier wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, and Wisconsin ; and embracing individual adventures among the Indians, and exploits of Boone, Kenton, Clark, Logan, Brady, Poe, Morgan, the Whetzels, and other border heroes of the West (C.L. Derby & Co., 1854), by John Frost (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the middle West : the French (Ginn and Company, 1898), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketches of history, life, and manners in the West; containing accurate descriptions of the country and modes of life, in the western states and territories of North America ... Volume I. (Hubbard and Edmands, 1834), by James Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the Mississippi Valley (Macmillan, 1906), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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)
• Histoire de Cavelier de La Salle; exploration et conquête du bassin du Mississippi d'apres les lettres de La Salle, les relations présentées à Louis XIV en son nom, les relations de plusieurs de ses compagnons de voyage, les actes officials et autre documents contemporains (J. Maisonneuve, 1901), by Paul Chesnel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early trade and travel in the lower Mississippi Valley (Ortlieb's Printing House, 1911), by William O. Scroggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the western states : illustrated by tales, sketches and anecdotes : with numerous engravings (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852), by Lambert Lilly (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 present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi (The A. H. Clark company, 1906), by Philip Pittman and Frank Heywood Hodder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great Britain and the Illinois country, 1763-1774 (The American historical association, 1910), by Clarence Edwin Carter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of explorations in the Mississippi Valley (Press of C. Hamilton, 1896), by Stephen D. Peet (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)
• The westward movement ... The colonies and the republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798. (Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1897), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the Mississippi Valley, from its discovery to the end of foreign domination. (A. S. Clark, 1903), by John Randolph Spears and Alzamore H. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the commonwealth of Kentucky, from its exploration and settlement by the whites, to the close of the northwestern campaign, in 1813 (J.A. James and co.;, 1836), by Mann Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pennsylvania's part in the winning of the West; an address delivered before the Pennsylvania Society of St. Louis, December 12, 1901. (Bureau of Publicity of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1902), by Horace Kephart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• History of the discovery of the valley of the Mississippi (A.M. Hart, 1852), by Adolphus M. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the western states, illustrated by tales, sketches and anecdotes ... (W.D. Ticknor, 1854), by Francis L. Hawks and Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the western states : illustrated by tales, sketches and anecdotes with numerous engravings (W. D. Ticknor, 1846), by Lambert Lilly, Samuel G. Goodrich, and William D. Ticknor & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why Illinois was French (National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the State of Illinois, 1962), by Jocelyn Kennedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the western states, illustrated by tales, sketches and anecdotes ... (W. D. Ticknor, 1844), by Lambert Lilly and Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• A topographical description of the western territory of North America : containing a succinct account of its soil, climate, natural history, population, agriculture, manners, and customs. With an ample description of the several divisions into which that country is partitioned... (Printed for J. Debrett, 1968), by Gilbert Imlay, Thomas Hutchins, Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Heart, John Filson, Patrick Kennedy, and Daniel Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• Heroes of the Middle West the French (Ginn, 1900), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ferdinand de Soto, the discoverer of the Mississippi (Dodd & Mead, 1873), by John S. C. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The westward movement the colonies and the republic, west of the Alleganies, 1763-1798 (Houghton, Mifflin, 1897), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States and Spain in 1790 an episode in diplomacy described from hitherto unpublished sources (s.n.], 1890), by Worthington Chauncey Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The present state of the European settlements on the Mississippi with a geographical description of that river : illustrated by plans and draughts (Printed for J. Nourse ..., 1770), by Philip Pittman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aanmerkerkelyke voyagie gedaan na't gedeelde van Noorder America behelzende een nieuwe ontdekkinge van een seer groot land, gelegen tusschen Nieuw Mexico en de Ys-zee : vervattende de gelegentheid der zelve nieuwe ont dekte landen : de rivieren en groote meeren in ' tzelve : en voor al van de groole rivier Meschasipi genaamd ... met veele andere byfonderheden meer (By Barent Bos Boekverkooper, 1794), by Louis Hennepin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jacques Marquette et la découverte de la vallée du Mississipi [sic] (s.n.], 1880), by J. Brucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relation de la mission du Mississipi [sic] du Séminaire de Québec en 1700 (J.M. Shea, 1861), by François Jolliet de Montigny, Dominique Antoine Thaumur de la Source, Jean-François de St. Cosme Buisson, and Jésuites (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)
• Nouveau voyage d'un pais plus grand que l'Europe avec les reflections des entreprises du Sieur de La Salle sur les mines de St. Barbe, &c. : enrichi de la carte, de figures expressives, des moeurs & manieres de vivre des sauvages du nord & du sud, de la prise de Quebec, ville capitalle de la Nouvelle France, par les Anglois, & des avantages qu'on peut retirer du chemin recourci de la Chine & du Japon, par le moien de tant de vaste contrées, & de nouvelles colonies : avec approbation & dedié a Sa Majesté, Guillaume III, roy de la Grande Bretagne (Chez Antoine Schouten ..., 1698), by Louis Hennepin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages curieux et nouveaux de Messieurs Hennepin & de La Borde ou l'on voit une description très particulière, d'un grand pays dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, & la mer glaciale, avec une relation curieuse des Caraibes sauvages des isles Antilles de l'Amerique, les moeurs, coutumes, religion, &c. : le tout accompagné des cartes & figures necessaires. (Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1711), by Louis Hennepin and sieur de La Borde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage curieux du R.P. Louis Hennepin, missionaire recollect, & notaire apostolique, qui contient une nouvelle decouverte d'un tres-grand pays, situé dans l'Amerique, entre le Nouveau Mexique, & la Mer Glaciale avec toutes les particularités de ce pays, & les avantages qu'on peut en tirer par l'établissement des colonies, enrichi de cartes & augmenté de quelques figures entaille douce necessaires. Outre cela on a aussi ajouté ici un Voyage qui contient une relation exacte de l'origine, moeurs, coûtumes, religion, guerres & voyages des Caraibes, sauvages des Isles Antilles de l'Amerique, faite par le Sieur de La Borde, employé à la conversion des Caraîbes, et tirée du cabinet de Monsr. Blondel. (Chez Pierre vander Aa, 1704), by Louis Hennepin and sieur de La Borde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyage ou nouvelle découverte d'un très-grand pays, dans l'Amérique, entre le Nouveau Mexique et la mer glaciale ([Che]z Adriaan Braakman, Marchand libraire ..., 1704), by Louis Hennepin and sieur de La Borde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cartier to Frontenac geographical discovery in the interior of North America in its historical relations, 1534-1700 ; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cartier to Frontenac geographical discovery in the interior of North America in its historical relations, 1534-1700 : with full cartographical illustrations from contemporarysources (Houghton, Mifflin;, 1894), by Justin Winsor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aenmerckelycke historische reys-beschryvinge door verscheyde landen veel grooter als die van geheel Europa onlanghs ontdeckt behelsende een nauwkeurige beschrijvinge van de gelegentheyd, natuur, en vrughtbaerheyd, vant't zuyder, en noorder gedeetlte van America ... met approbalie van Wilhemus den III, Koningh van Groot-Britanie en aan deselve Sijne Majesteyt opgedragen (By Anthony Schouten, 1698), by Louis Hennepin (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)
• Jacques Marquette et la découverte de la vallée du Mississipi. (Imprimerie Pitrat Ainé, 1880), by J. Brucker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pioneers of the Mississippi valley (The Macmillan company, 1912), by Charles A. McMurry (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the southern & western states. (William D. Ticknor & Co., 1847), by Lambert Lilly, Benjamin Holt Ticknor, Samuel G. Goodrich, Francis L. Hawks, and William D. Ticknor & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new discovery of a vast country in America : extending above four thousand miles, between New France & New Mexico : with a deseription [sic] of the Great Lakes, cataracts, rivers, plants, and animals : also, the manners, customs, and languages of the several native Indians, and the advantage of commerce with those different nations : with a continuation giving an account of the attempts of the Sieur de la Salle upon the mines of St. Barbe, &c., the taking of Quebec by the English, with the advantages of a shorter cut to China and Japan : both illustrated with maps and figures and dedicated to His Majesty King William (Canadiana House, 1969), by Louis Hennepin, Jacques Marquette, and Louis Joliet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The American revolution and the acquisition of the valley of the Mississippi : a paper read before the Missouri Historical Society, April 15th, 1884 / by the Rt. Rev. C.F. Robertson. ([s.n.], 1884), by Charles Franklin Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Mississippi Valley in British politics : a study of the trade, land speculation, and experiments in imperialism culminating in the American Revolution (Russell & Russell, 1959), by Clarence Walworth Alvord (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history of Florida, Louisiana, Texas and California, band of the adjoining countries, including the whole valley of the Mississippi, from the discovery to their incorporation with the United States of America. Volume I. (New York, 1856), by Robert Greenhow and Brantz Mayer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some considerations on the consequences of the French settling colonies on the Mississippi, with respect to the trade and safety of the English plantations in America and the West-Indies (Printed for J. Roberts near the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane, 1720), by James Smith and Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio (page images at HathiTrust)
• 200e anniversaire de la dećouverte du Mississipi par Jolliet et le P. Marquette : soirée littéraire et musicale a l'Université Laval le 17 Juin 1873. (L.H. Huot, 1873), by H. A. B. Verreau and Université Laval (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barthélemi Tardiveau, a French trader in the West; biographical sketch (The Johns Hopkins press, 1938), by Howard C. Rice and J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heroes of the Middle West: The French, by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Dernieres decouvertes dan l'Amerique septentrionale de M. de La Sale. English. (London : Printed for J. Tonson ... and S. Buckly ... and R. Knaplock ..., 1698), by Henri de Tonti and Sieur de Montauban (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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