Title: The crimson cap
Description: In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.
Subjects: Fiction, Indians of North America, Hasinai Indians, History, Explorers, Discovery and exploration, Fiction, historical, general, Fiction, action & adventure, Texas, fiction
Places: Texas, America
People: Robert Cavelier La Salle sieur de (1643-1687)
Time periods: To 1846