Excerpt from Wonderland 1903: Descriptive of the Country Contiguous to the Northern Pacific RailwayAmong La Salle's company was our priest and explorer, none other, indeed, than the well-known Father Louis Hennepin, a Fran ciscam priest of the Recollect order.A strange combination was the Franciscan, and to this day it is difficult. To gauge and determine the real character of the man. Upon one point all historians agree - he was a man of conspicuous and inordinate vanity and much given to exaggeration, particularly of his own dangers and exploits.One of La Salle's objects was the exploration of the Mississippi, or River Colbert, as it was then called, after a noted French statesman of that day.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.