02055cam a2200445 i 4500 247578344 TxAuBib 20141211120000.0 141211s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2013474466 9781477709177 lib. bdg. 1477709177 lib. bdg. (OCoLC)825752794 TxAuBib rda Peppas, Lynn. Why Sieur de La Salle matters to Texas [Book] / by Lynn Peppas. First edition. PowerKids Press, 2014. New York, NY : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., 2014. 32 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Texas perspectives "Rene-Robert Cavelier, better known as Sieur de La Salle, set out to build a French colony on the mouth of the Mississippi River. Instead, he spend more than two years lost in Texas. The colony he established would be Texas's first European settlement, but La Salle's many miscalculations would cost him and his colonists their lives"--Page 4 of cover. Includes bibliographical references and index. All Ages. 6.3. 20141211. La Salle, Robert Cavelier sieur de 1643-1687 Juvenile literature. Texas Legislature History To 1846 Juvenile Literature. Texas Legislature Senate Discovery and exploration French Juvenile literature. Explorers North America Biography Juvenile literature. Explorers France Biography Juvenile literature. Canada Discovery and exploration French Juvenile literature. Canada History To 1763 (New France) Juvenile literature. Mississippi River Valley Discovery and exploration French Juvenile literature. Texas perspectives. SBRWN