Louis Hennepin 1680-1681 by Francis Parkman Jr
Channel: Age of Enlightenment
Date: 2020-09-01

Francis Parkman Jr. wrote The Discovery of the Great West (1869). 

This section of his book is about Father Louis Hennepin. 
https://librivox.org/la-salle-discovery-of-the-great-west-by-francis-parkman-jr/
The truth of much of Hennepin's accounts has been called into question — or flatly denied — notably by American historian Francis Parkman.  Parkman's subheading says it all.

Hennepin an Impostor: his Pretended Discovery; his Actual Discovery; Captured by the Sioux.—The Upper Mississippi.
You decide.