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The Making of the Great West, 1512-1883

Note 13 — Group I. THREE RIVAL CIVILIZATIONS.

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Father James Marquette came to Canada 1666. His going west was in the nature of a re-enforcement to those earlier missionaries who had prepared the way. He died while returning from a journey to the Illinois towns in 1675, or after that made with Joliet the previous year. Marquette, Mich., is named for him.

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