This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920. Excerpt: ... VII. The French And Indian Barriers, 1600-1765 General Reading Guide, 106, 108-110, 147-148. Channing, History of the United States, II, chs. 5, 18, 19 (pp. 131-154; 527-603). Thwaites, France in America, American Nation, VII. (Useful bibliography in ch. 19.) Greene, Provincial America, American Nation, VI, chs. 7-10. Parkman, France and England in North America (12 vols). The chronological order is given in Thwaites, France in America, 297; edition cited below is 1898. Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac., Mississippi Basin., Narrative and Critical History of America, IV, V. C. H. Mcllwain (Ed.), Wraxall's Abridgment of the New York State Indian Records, 1678 to 1751. Ogg, Opening of the Mississippi, chs. 3-7. Avery, History of the United States, II, 1-21; HI, 155 191,309-328; IV. (Useful maps and illustrations.) F. J. Turner, Rise and Fall of New France, in Chautau quan, XXIV, 31-34, 295-300. (Brief sketch.) Significance of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes Basin Brigham, Geographic Influences in American History, chs. 4-6. Van Hise, Conservation of Natural Resources, 271-274. Powell, Physiographic Regions, 82-86. Shaler, America, I. Winsor, Mississippi Basin, 4-32. Ogg, Opening of the Mississippi, 1-7; and Growth of Population in the Mississippi Valley, in World To-Day (February, 1905), III, 186-190. F. J. Turner, The Middle West, in International Monthly (December, 1901), IV, 794-798., Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History, in Proceedings of the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, 1910. H. P. Judson, in N. S. Shaler Ed., United States, I, chs. 3, 5. A. B. Hart, Future of the Mississippi Valley, in Harper's Monthly (February, 1900), C, 413. Exploration and Indian Trade Parkman, Frontenac; La Salle;...