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Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette

17 minutes 25 seconds

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Color illustration of a man wearing a brown shirt, pants, and matching hat rowing a canoe through choppy water. Caption. A voyager to the end, Louis Joliet died in 1700.

Part of the "Famous Explorers" series. These two men of French and Canadian ancestry sailed down the Mississippi River from Minnesota, past the Arkansas River. Heading back north, they explored the Great Lakes Region of the United States in search of the Northwest Passage.

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