PORT O’CONNOR, Texas — Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, charted the Great Lakes, discovered the mouth of the Mississippi and claimed half the continent for France. But he was not well-liked.

Translation of: Cavelier de La Salle, ou, L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV. Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A debris field at the bottom of Lake Michigan may be the remains of the long-lost Griffin, a vessel commanded by the 17th-century French explorer known as La Salle, according to ...

PALACIOS, Texas — Archaeologists have pushed aside the cloudy waters off Matagorda Peninsula with an enclosed, octagonal steel dam. They’ve sucked out a portion of Matagorda Bay. And now, inside a ...