The Nueces River runs west to east across La Salle County, and at one time it served as the boundary between Texas and Mexico. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, ceded the Nueces Strip t
An introduction to the life of seventeenth-century French explorer Renae-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who explored the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River.
Presents the biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who became the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River and claim not only the river but also the land arou
