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" It is nearly all so beautiful and so fertile; so free from forests, and so full of meadows, brooks, and rivers; so abounding in fish, game, and venison, that one can find there in plenty, and with little trouble, all that is needful for the support of... "
Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs - Page 46
by Carl Ortwin Sauer, Gilbert Haven Cady, Henry Chandler Cowles - 1918 - 148 pages
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West, Volume 3

Francis Parkman - Canada - 1879 - 530 pages
...discoveries he had made, and then described the country he had seen south and west of the Great Lakes. " It is nearly all so beautiful and so fertile ; so...support of flourishing colonies. The soil will produce every thing that is raised in France. Flocks and herds can be left out at pasture all winter ; and...
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La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West

Francis Parkman - Mississippi River - 1879 - 526 pages
...discoveries he had made, and then described the country he had seen south and west of the Great Lakes. " It is nearly all so beautiful and so fertile ; so...support of flourishing colonies. The soil will produce every thing that is raised in France. Flocks and herds can be left out at pasture all winter ; and...
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France and England in North America: The discovery of the Great West. 1879

Francis Parkman - Canada - 1880 - 528 pages
...discoveries he had made, and then described the country he had seen south and west of the Great Lakes. " It is nearly all so beautiful and so fertile ; so...support of flourishing colonies. The soil will produce every thing that is raised in France. Flocks and herds can be left out at pasture all winter; and there...
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Chapters from Illinois History

Edward Gay Mason - Chicago (Ill.) - 1901 - 352 pages
...describes it as "so beautiful and so fertile, so free from forests, and so well supplied with prairies, brooks and rivers, so abounding in fish, game and...there in plenty and with little trouble all that is needed for the support of flourishing colonies there. "K These colonies he resolved to plant in that...
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Geographic Influences in American History

Albert Perry Brigham - History - 1903 - 434 pages
...Illinois country, he drew a picture of the prairies which may in some points serve as well to-day : " So beautiful and so fertile ; so free from forests,...little trouble, all that is needful for the support of nourishing colonies." Indeed the empire would be built and the meadows would be made populous, but...
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A Short History of the American People

Edna Henry Lee Turpin - United States - 1911 - 546 pages
...whom he called the country Louisiana. In a letter to the king, La Salle said that the country was " so beautiful and so fertile, so free from forests...in fish, game, and venison, that one can find there ... all that is needful for the support of flourishing colonies." This mild, fertile region seemed...
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Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth, Volume 1

Josiah Seymour Currey - Chicago - 1912 - 636 pages
...country as "so beautiful and so fertile, so free from forests, and so well supplied with prairies, brooks and rivers, so abounding in fish, game and...there in plenty and with little trouble all that is needed for the support of flourishing colonies." Indeed, one is reminded when reading these enthusiastic...
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Chicago: Its History and Its Builders, a Century of Marvelous Growth, Volume 1

Josiah Seymour Currey - Chicago - 1912 - 640 pages
...country as "so beautiful and so fertile, so free from forests, and so well supplied with prairies, brooks and rivers, so abounding in fish, game and venison, that one ean find there in plenty and with little trouble all that is needed for the support of flourishing...
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Francis Parkman: France and England in North America Vol. 1 (LOA #11 ...

Francis Parkman - History - 1983 - 1530 pages
...discoveries he had made, and then described the country he had seen south and west of the Great Lakes. "It is nearly all so beautiful and so fertile; so...support of flourishing colonies. The soil will produce every thing that is raised in France. Flocks and herds can be left out at pasture all winter; and there...
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Jungles of Arkansas (p): A Personal History of the Wonder State

Bob Lancaster - Arkansas - 1989 - 252 pages
...Indians. He was exhilarated by it all. A document presented in his name a few years later described it as full of meadows, brooks, and rivers; so abounding...plenty, and with little trouble, all that is needful to the support of flourishing colonies. The soil will produce everything that is raised in France....
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