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Title: Pathfinders of the Great Plains
A Chronicle of La Verendrye and his Sons

Author: Lawrence J. Burpee

Release Date: October 1, 2009 [EBook #30145]

Language: English

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PATHFINDERS OF

THE GREAT PLAINS

A Chronicle of La Verendrye and his Sons

BY

LAWRENCE J. BURPEE

TORONTO

GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY

1914

Copyright in all Countries subscribing to
the Berne Convention

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CONTENTS

Page

I. EARLY SERVICE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
II. FIRST ATTEMPT AT EXPLORATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
III. ACROSS THE PLAINS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
IV. THE MANDAN INDIANS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
V. THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS . . . . . . . . . . 72
VI. LA VERENDRYES' LATTER DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

ILLUSTRATIONS

LA VERENDRYE EXPLORATIONS, 1731-43 . . . . . . . . . _Facing page_ 1
Map by Bartholomew.

AN INDIAN ENCAMPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 48
Painting by Paul Kane.

AN ASSINIBOINE INDIAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 52
From a pastel by Edmund Morris.

MANDAN GIRLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . " " 68
From Pritchard's 'Natural History of Man.'

TABLET DEPOSITED BY LA VERENDRYE, 1743 . . . . . . . " " 90
From photographs lent by Charles N. Bell,
F.R.G.S., President of the Manitoba
Historical and Scientific Society.

THE MARQUIS DE LA GALISSONIERE . . . . . . . . . . . " " 96
From an engraving in the Chateau de Ramezay.

[Illustration: La Verendrye Explorations, 1731-43]

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