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PATHFINDERS OF THE GREAT PLAINS
A Chronicle of La Vérendrye and his Sons
BY
LAWRENCE J. BURPEE
TORONTO GLASGOW, BROOK & COMPANY 1914
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
La Vérendrye Explorations, 1731-43
CHAPTER I
EARLY SERVICE
CHAPTER II
FIRST ATTEMPT AT EXPLORATION
CHAPTER III
ACROSS THE PLAINS
An Indian encampment. From a painting by Paul Kane.
An Assiniboine Indian. From a pastel by Edmund Morris.
CHAPTER IV
THE MANDAN INDIANS
Mandan girls. From Pritchard's 'Natural History of Man.'
CHAPTER V
THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
Tablet deposited by La Vérendrye, 1743. Obverse and reverse sides. From photographs lent by Charles N. Bell, F.R.G.S., President of the Manitoba Historical and Scientific Society.
CHAPTER VI
LA VÉRENDRYES' LATTER DAYS
The Marquis de la Galissonière. From an engraving in the Château de Ramezay.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
INDEX
THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
THIRTY-TWO VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED
Edited by GEORGE M. WRONG and H. H. LANGTON
THE CHRONICLES OF CANADA
PART I THE FIRST EUROPEAN VISITORS
PART II THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE
PART III THE ENGLISH INVASION
PART IV THE BEGINNINGS OF BRITISH CANADA
PART V THE RED MAN IN CANADA
PART VI PIONEERS OF THE NORTH AND WEST
PART VII THE STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM
PART VIII THE GROWTH OF NATIONALITY
PART IX NATIONAL HIGHWAYS
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