Chapter I: Front Matter

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Francis Parkman's Works.

NEW LIBRARY EDITION.

Vol. III.

FRANCIS PARKMAN'S WORKS.

New Library Edition.

Pioneers of France in the New World 1 vol.

The Jesuits in North America 1 vol.

La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West 1 vol.

The Old Régime in Canada 1 vol.

Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. 1 vol.

A Half Century of Conflict 2 vols.

Montcalm and Wolfe 2 vols.

The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after
the Conquest of Canada 2 vols.

The Oregon Trail 1 vol.

_La Salle Presenting a Petition to Louis XIV._

Drawn by Adrien Moreau.

La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, _Frontispiece_

LA SALLE
AND THE
DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT WEST.

FRANCE AND ENGLAND IN
NORTH AMERICA.

Part Third.

BY
FRANCIS PARKMAN.

BOSTON:
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
1908.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by
Francis Parkman,
In the Clerk's Office
of the
District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by
Francis Parkman,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

_Copyright, 1897,_
By Little, Brown, and Company.

_Copyright, 1897,_
By Grace P. Coffin and Katharine S. Coolidge.

_Copyright, 1907,_
By Grace P. Coffin.

Printers
S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.

TO

THE CLASS OF 1844,

Harvard College,

THIS BOOK IS CORDIALLY DEDICATED

BY ONE OF THEIR NUMBER.