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100	1		_aChanning, Edward, _d1856-1931
245	1	4	_aThe story of the Great Lakes
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-12-28
508			_adeaurider, Daniel Lowe, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"The story of the Great Lakes" by Edward Channing and Marion Florence Lansing is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It charts the discovery, exploration, contest for control, and modern development of the Great Lakes region, from Indigenous homelands and French missions to forts, canals, cities, shipping, and industry. The opening of this work sets its scope and method in a preface, then moves from a vivid contrast between La Salle’s era and modern Chicago to a clear overview of the lakes’ geography, canals, and economic power. It recounts Champlain’s 1615 journey to the Huron country, the first mass among the Hurons, and a failed assault on an Iroquois fort that left him wintering with his hosts. It then follows the Jesuit missions led by Brébeuf and Jogues: grueling Ottawa–Nipissing routes, mission life and teaching, rising superstition and persecution, brief western forays to Sault Ste. Marie, and the Iroquois onslaught that destroyed Huron towns and scattered the mission. A ceremonial interlude at Sault Ste. Marie in 1671 shows France claiming the interior for Louis XIV. The narrative shifts to La Salle: building the Griffon above Niagara despite Seneca resistance, Hennepin’s description of the falls, the ship’s passage through Erie, Detroit, and Huron to Michilimackinac and Green Bay, the Griffon’s disappearance, and La Salle’s storm-battered canoe voyage down Lake Michigan to the Illinois country. It next relates Governor La Barre’s feeble 1684 campaign and his humiliating council with the Onondaga orator “Big Mouth,” who asserts Iroquois independence. Finally, it turns to occupation, introducing Cadillac’s 1701 founding of Detroit at the strategic strait that commands the upper-lakes trade. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cNew York: The Macmillan Company, 1909
653			_aGreat Lakes (North America) -- History
700	1		_aLansing, Marion Florence, _d1883-1966
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/storyofgreatlake00chanuoft
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77559
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