Title: The La Salle expedition to Texas
Subtitle: the journal of Henri Joutel, 1684-1687
First published: 1998
Description: Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel's journal is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of this dramatic story of adventure and misadventure in Texas. Joutel, who served as post commander for La Salle, describes in accurate and colorful detail the daily experiences and precise route La Salle's party followed in 1687 from the Texas coast to the Mississippi River.

By carefully comparing Joutel's compass directions and detailed descriptions to maps and geographic locations, Foster has established where La Salle was murdered by his men, and has corrected many erroneous geographic interpretations made by French and American scholars during the past century.
Subjects: Diaries, Indians of North America, Discovery and exploration, History, Texas
Places: Texas, Mississippi River Valley, Gulf Region (Tex.)
People: Robert Cavelier La Salle Sieur de (1643-1687), Henri Joutel (1640?-1735)
Time periods: To 1846, 17th century
LC classification: F352 .J68 1998