Tag: LaSalle

• The Last Voyageurs: Retracing La Salle’s Journey Across America: Sixteen Teenagers on an Adventure of a Lifetime

  

  In her last year of college, Lorraine Boissoneault, an avowed Francophile and writer who lives in Chicago, became interested in the French history of North America and the journey undertaken by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, the first European to travel from Montreal to the mouth of the Mississippi River. Her fascination with…

  Jane Simon Ammeson

  April 17, 2019

  Adventure, American History, Chicago, Travel

  Adventure, History, LaSalle