Why Sieur de La Salle matters to Texas
By: by Lynn Peppas
Edition: First edition.
Series: Texas perspectives
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781477709177
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Explorers; Biography; Discovery and exploration; French; History
Notes: "Rene-Robert Cavelier, better known as Sieur de La Salle, set out to build a French colony on the mouth of the Mississippi River.   Instead, he spend more than two years lost in Texas.  The colony he established would be Texas's first European settlement, but La Salle's many miscalculations would cost him and his colonists their lives"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.