Pathfinders of the Great Plains: A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
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- PATHFINDERS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
- A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
- LAWRENCE J. BURPEE
- TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1914
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- La Vérendrye Explorations, 1731-43
- CHAPTER I
- EARLY SERVICE
- CHAPTER II
- FIRST ATTEMPT AT EXPLORATION
- CHAPTER III
- ACROSS THE PLAINS
- An Indian encampment. From a painting by Paul Kane.
- An Assiniboine Indian. From a pastel by Edmund Morris.
- CHAPTER IV
- THE MANDAN INDIANS
- Mandan girls. From Pritchard's 'Natural History of Man.'
- CHAPTER V
- THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- Tablet deposited by La Vérendrye, 1743. Obverse and reverse sides. From photographs lent by Charles N. Bell, F.R.G.S., President of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society.
- CHAPTER VI
- LA VÉRENDRYES' LATTER DAYS
- The Marquis de la Galissonière. From an engraving in the Château de Ramezay.
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
- THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
- THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED
- Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
- THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
- PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS
- PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE
- PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION
- PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA
- PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA
- PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST
- PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
- PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY
- PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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