Front matter
Reading edition
Edition limited to five hundred copies printed from type of which this is No.________
GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE AT THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION, ST. LOUIS, 1904.
Joutel’s Journal of La Salle’s Last Voyage 1684–7
WITH A FRONTISPIECE OF GUDEBROD’S STATUE OF LA SALLE AND THE MAP OF THE ORIGINAL FRENCH EDITION, PARIS 1713, IN FACSIMILE.
NEW EDITION WITH HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, ANNOTATIONS AND INDEX BY HENRY REED STILES, A. M., M. D.
TO WHICH IS ADDED A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE MISSISSIPPI BY APPLETON P. C. GRIFFIN, OF THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
ALBANY, N. Y. JOSEPH McDONOUGH 1906
Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1906 By JOSEPH McDONOUGH, In the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.
TO THE MEMORY OF JOHN GILMARY SHEA, LL. D., THE INDEFATIGABLE HISTORIAN OF THE MISSIONS, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA, AND A MAN OF MODEST, PIOUS AND BLAMELESS LIFE THIS, THE FINAL VOLUME OF A SERIES PROJECTED BY HIMSELF, OVER FORTY YEARS AGO, IS SINCERELY DEDICATED BY THE PUBLISHER AND EDITOR.