Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Lester Corinne A.
Title : Green Bay 1600 to 1900 A short history
Year : 1976

Link download : Lester_Corinne_A_-_Green_Bay_1600_to_1900.zip

Europeans come to the new land. Jean Nicolet, explorer. Christopher Columbus was the first white man to sail to America. He believed that he was on an island in the Indies near China so he called the native people Indians. When the rulers of Europe heard about _ this ~ land;,they sent men to explore parts of it. France sent explorers up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great Lakes. The lands that they passed through were claimed for France and called New France. The explorers· did not find gold and silver as they had hoped. They found a beautiful land "watered by the fairest rivers, full of fish, minerals, furs and timbers of marvelous height." ...