Jolliet and Marquette : explorers of the Mississippi River /
Daniel E. Harmon.
- Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, c2002.
- 63 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
- Explorers of new worlds .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
Examines the lives and discoveries of Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet, seventeenth-century French explorers who were assigned to follow the course of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes to see whether it led to the Pacific Ocean.