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There once were two young men named 

Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet who lived 

in France. Jacques Marquette was a priest who 

could speak many different languages. Louis 

Joliet was a fur trader who also made maps.

King Louis XIV chose the two men to take a 

trip to America and find a river called 'The 

Mississippi River.'

HINT: There is a little hidden monkey on each 

page... see if you can find him.

On May 17, 1673, Jacques Marquette and Louis 

Joliet set sail with five other men in 

two canoes.

They paddled through different lakes and 

rivers

in their canoes. 

They went through a lake named Lake 

Michigan, 

and two rivers named Fox River and Wisconsin 

River. 

After a month at sea, the men finally found 

theMississippi River!  

Marquette and Joliet left the five men to 

watch over their canoes as they walked on the 

shore.

They walked to an Indian village near the 

shore. The two men were welcomed and the 

Indians gave them food.

When the two men were leaving the village, the 

leader of the Indians gave them two gifts.

One was a 'camulet,' which was a stick that 

meant peace for Indian tribes.

Another was the leader's 10-year-old son, to 

help show the men where to go on their trip.

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