id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 7147 Finley, John H. (John Huston) The French in the Heart of America .txt text/plain 121580 4546 66 With these the history of the north--the valleys of the St. Lawrence, the Great Lakes, and the Mississippi--begins. portage into the valley of that river, it was the men of France, so far as river the brave De la Salle built his Fort St. Louis on the great rock in times that of France"--watered by a river "which, like a god of antiquity, titular life of the great empire of France in the new world actually went the people of the United States, years later, considered this transMississippi country, France, "secretly tired of her colony," finally and, perhaps, even to the old borders of New France along the Great Lakes The United States Commissioner came one day to Paris to purchase New memories of the days when their waters ran through the Mississippi Valley The old French forts have grown into new-world cities, the portage paths ./cache/7147.txt ./txt/7147.txt