Excerpt from Sketches From the Romance of American History: Dedicated to Mary Curtiss, Who Graduated When Seventy-Two Years of Age in the Class of 1883, of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle of Wall Street Methodist Episcopal Church, Jeffersonville, IndThe determination of the mouth of the Mississippi, as a great geographical problem of that day, was left to another daring and enterprising Frenchman, whose romantic life was crowned by a tragic death in the valley of the great river, whose exploration was destined to make his name illustrious.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.