Part 1 — Part I. Discovery and Exploration, 1615–1700

This period is taken up in Parkman’s Pioneers of France in the New World, The Jesuits in North America, La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, and Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV. The seventy-three volumes of Jesuit Relations and Allied Volumes, edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites, are the source books for accounts of the Jesuits. A modern book which covers this period is C. W. Colby’s Canadian Types of the Old Régime, 1608–1698. E. B. O’Callaghan’s Documentary History of the State of New York (4 vols.), 1849, and L. H. Morgan’s League of the Iroquois (2 vols.), 1901, give good accounts of the Indians, while the former has reprints of valuable maps and documents.

The original accounts of the voyages of the explorers are as follows: Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, translated by C. P. Otis, and edited by E. F. Slafter (3 vols.) (a handy one-volume edition is that of W. L. Grant, 1907); Relation of the Discoveries and Voyages of Cavelier de La Salle from 1679 to 1681, translated by M. B. Anderson; and Louis Hennepin’s A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America (2 vols.), and Lahontan’s New Voyages to North America, both reprinted and edited by R. G. Thwaites. C. W. Butterfield has written a History of Brulé’s Discoveries and Explorations, 1610–1626. The story of the pageant of Saint Lusson comes to us from his >Procès-Verbal in the Wisconsin Historical Collections, xi, 26, and in Father Claude Dablon’s account in the Jesuit Relations, lv, 105–115.