by Ellen Howard
When eleven-year-old Pierre Talon, son of a French Canadian Voyageur, sets out in 1684 on what became the last, ill-fated expedition of the great French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, he hopes to find help for his family, who are struggling in a settlement decimated by hunger, ilness, and Indian attacks. But the expedition to relocate the Mississippi River unravels when La Salle and his closest...
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