[DOC] [TLE] Exploring the Mississippi [PAR] Fox River. Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, 1673. Lake Michigan ... to travel 
south down the Mississippi River until they reached the Arkansas River. The two 
French explorers learned from the Indians that Spanish or English settlers were... [DOC] [TLE] American Journeys Background on The Mississippi Voyage of Jolliet ... [PAR] Jacques Marquette, born in Laon, France in 1637, entered the Jesuit order in 
1654 and ... of Michigan, in 1671 before exploring the Mississippi with Louis 
Joliet in 1673. ... Earlier exploration in the western Great Lakes and reports from 
by Native ... the possibility that a great river drained either west or south of the 
region. [DOC] [TLE] Marquette-Joliet Expedition - Encyclopedia of Arkansas [PAR] Aug 8, 2016 ... In 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a fur ... 
the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico for the colonial power of France. 
Leaving with several men in two bark canoes, Marquette and Joliet ... an 
exploration of the Great Lakes region and the Mississippi River with Father... [DOC] [TLE] Explorers of North America: EnchantedLearning.com [PAR] He also explored the Paraguay River in South America. ... Samuel de Champlain 
(1567?-1635) was a French explorer and navigator who .... Cuba in 1511 and led 
a Spanish royal expedition to North America (leaving Spain in 1527). ..... They 
travelled along Lake Michigan to Green Bay, canoed up the Fox River, and went
... [DOC] [TLE] Jacques Marquette - Explorer, Missionary - Biography.com [PAR] Feb 12, 2016 ... French explorer and missionary Jacques Marquette was the first European to 
map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. ... IN THESE GROUPS ... He 
founded missions in present-day Michigan and later joined explorer Louis ... On 
May 17, 1673, Marquette and his friend Louis Joliet (also spelled... [DOC] [TLE] Louis Jolliet | French-Canadian explorer | Britannica.com [PAR] French Canadian explorer and cartographer who, with Father Jacques ... New 
France (now in Canada) but left his seminary in 1667 and went to France. ... they 
paddled down the Mississippi as far as the mouth of the Arkansas River. ... The 
French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet traveled the upper Mississippi River in 
1673... [DOC] [TLE] Historical Synopsis - Friends of the Chicago Portage [PAR] THE CHICAGO PORTAGE AND LAUGHTON TRADING POST AREA ... The "
Great River" was explored as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas River. ... The 
explorers taking the route, traveled up the Illinois River to the Des Plaines ... The 
Chicago River led Marquette and Jolliet to Lake Michigan and back to Green Bay
. [DOC] [TLE] Mississippi River - Wikipedia [PAR] The Mississippi River is the chief river of the largest drainage system on the North 
American ... According to either school of thought, the Upper Mississippi from 
Lake Itasca, ... upstream as far as Saint Cloud, Minnesota, depending on river 
conditions. .... The basin covers more than 1,245,000 square miles (3,220,000 km
2),... [DOC] [TLE] Mississippi (river US) facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] The length of the Mississippi River from its source in Lake Itasca in ... South of 
Memphis, Tennessee, the Arkansas River junctions with the Mississippi River. ... 
Over a century later, in 1673, the French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father 
Jacques ... traveled by canoe downriver to a point near the mouth of the Arkansas 
River. [DOC] [TLE] Jacques Marquette - Louis Jolliet, French Canadian explorers - Tripod [PAR] Jacques Marquette was a French explorer and Roman Catholic missionary in ... 
of New France believed the Mississippi might provide an easy route to the Far ... 
In May 1673, Marquette, Jolliet, and five other men set out in two canoes from St. 
Ignace. They paddled south on Lake Michigan, into the Fox River, and up 
through... [DOC] [TLE] The Chicago Portage - Historical Synopsis | Chicago Portage [PAR] THE CHICAGO PORTAGE AND LAUGHTON TRADING POST AREA ... The "
Great River" was explored as far south as the mouth of the Arkansas River. ... 
journey, the explorers met Indians who described a

Question: In 1673 these 2 French explorers left the Lake Michigan area & traveled as far south as the Arkansas River
Answer: Marquette & Joliet