Therefore I do not quote.
No records exist to prove where Radisson and Groseillers died.
[5] See Appendix.
[6] State Papers record payment of money to her because she was in want.
[7] Dr. George Bryce, who is really the only scholar who has tried to
unravel the mystery of Radisson's last days, supplies new facts about
his dealings with the Company to 1710.
[8] Marquis de Denonville ordered the arrest of Radisson wherever he
might be found.
[9] Appendix; see State Papers.
PART II
THE SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA: BEING AN
ACCOUNT OF THE DISCOVERY OF THE ROCKY
MOUNTAINS, THE MISSOURI UPLANDS, AND THE
VALLEY OF THE SASKATCHEWAN
CHAPTER VIII
1730-1750
THE SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA[1]
M. de la Verendrye continues the Exploration of the Great Northwest by
establishing a Chain of Fur Posts across the Continent--Privations of
the Explorers and the Massacre of Twenty Followers--His Sons visit the
Mandans and discover the Rockies--The Valley of the Saskatchewan is
next explored, but Jealousy thwarts the Explorer, and he dies in Poverty
I
1731-1736
A curious paradox is that the men who have done the most for North
America did not intend to do so. They set out on the far quest of a
crack-brained idealist's dream. They pulled up at a foreshortened
purpose; but the unaccomplished aim did more for humanity than the
idealist's dream.
Columbus set out to find Asia. He discovered America.
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