Jolliet and Marquette
A New History of the 1673 Expedition
by Mark Walczynski
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Pub Date 01 Aug 2023 | Archive Date Not set
University of Illinois Press, 3 Fields Books
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Description
Broadening our view of the explorers, their travels, and their time
Often viewed in isolation, the Jolliet and Marquette expedition in fact took place against a sprawling backdrop that encompassed everything from ancient Native American cities to French colonial machinations. Mark Walczynski draws on a wealth of original research to place the explorers and their journey within seventeenth-century North America. His account takes readers among the region’s diverse Native American peoples and into a vanished natural world of treacherous waterways and native flora and fauna. Walczynski also charts the little-known exploits of the French-Canadian officials, explorers, traders, soldiers, and missionaries who created the political and religious environment that formed Jolliet and Marquette and shaped European colonization of the heartland.
A multifaceted voyage into the past, Jolliet and Marquette expands and updates the oft-told story of a pivotal event in American history.
Mark Walczynski is a retired faculty member at Illinois Valley Community College and the Park Historian for the Starved Rock Foundation. He is the author of The History of Starved Rock.
Advance Praise
“An authoritative and long-overdue treatment of the historic Jolliet-Marquette voyage of discovery. Walczynski reaffirms and explains what is good in past scholarship while demonstrating where the established histories went off the track. The guiding of the reader up the Illinois River on Marquette and Jolliet’s return trip is unparalleled and priceless.”--Michael McCafferty, author of Native American Place-Names of Indiana
“This is a good read, and also a handy one in the 'old school' form of reliable regional history. The author writes about much more than the voyage. He contextualizes and discusses the earliest years of French interest in establishing a colony, and delves into the political mechanisms that drove early French colonial settlement in the Midwest. Walczynski also provides a welcome detailed description of the Illinois River Valley as it was during the seventeenth century.”--Robert F. Mazrim, author of At Home in the Illinois Country: French Colonial Domestic Site Archaeology in the Midwest, 1730–1800
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780252087356 |
| PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Kathryn M, Reviewer
this was a event in history that I really didn't know anything about and I'm so glad I got to read this. I could tell that Mark Walczynski had a passion about and that I was never bored when reading this. I enjoyed what I read and am excited to read more from Mark Walczynski.
