Hennepin, Louis, active 17th century.
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Notes on discovery of upper Mississippi River
Collection — Huntington box 15a - folder 1
Identifier: 9082
Scope and content
Handwritten notes by an unknown author. Notes mention Louis Hennepin, Robert Cavelier sieur de LaSalle, Jacques Marquette, Louis Joliet, Claude Jean Allouez, and Father Claude Dablon. Mention of the Huron, Ottawa and Sioux Indians, Mascouten or Asistieron, and Nation of Fire, as well. Two maps are also included. The maps were published in Paris by Thevenot in "Marquette's Map." The notes describe exploration of the river in the late 1600s.
Dates:
[ca. 1900].