Marquette-Joliet Expedition - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Feb 6, 2024 · Leaving with several men in two bark canoes, Marquette and Joliet entered the Mississippi River and arrived in present-day Arkansas in June 1673. They were considered the first Europeans to come into contact with the Indians of east Arkansas since Hernando de Soto ’s expedition in the 1540s.
French History of Arkansas - Only In Arkansas
Feb 23, 2022 · First French to Arrive in Arkansas – Marquette and Joliet The first two Frenchmen to arrive in Arkansas were Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet. Both were residents of New France at the time, which was the name given to Southeast Canada.
French Explorers and Settlers - Encyclopedia of Arkansas
Oct 31, 2024 · Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit, and Louis Joliet (or Jolliet), a trader, were the first Frenchmen to set foot in the Arkansas land, in 1673. They found four Quapaw villages: Kappa, Tongigna, Tourima, and Osotouy.
Marquette and Joliet in Arkansas
Aug 11, 2011 · Jacques Marquette, a French Jesuit priest, had made expeditions along the Northern lakes, proselyting among the Indian tribes. He had conceived the idea that there was a great western river leading to China and Japan.
European Exploration and Settlement, 1541 through 1802
Aug 3, 2023 · Canoeing down the Mississippi River from the Illinois country (the upper Mississippi River Valley), Father Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Louis Joliet, a coureur de bois (a trader who lived in Indian country), led a French …
Remembering The Mississippi Voyage Of Marquette And Joliet
May 16, 2016 · On July 16, near the mouth of the Arkansas River, they decided to turn around, confident that they had gone far enough to confirm that the Mississippi ran to the Gulf of Mexico. They also stayed far enough north to avoid capture by the Spanish who controlled Florida.
Marquette and Jolliet's Excellent Adventure - American Heritage
In 1673, a Jesuit missionary, a fur trader, and a small group of canoe men traveled 2000 miles from what is now upper Michigan down to Arkansas and back. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first people of European descent to …
Arkansas Secretary of State
Sep 4, 2023 · How Did Arkansas Get its Name Jacques Marquette, addressing the Quapaw Indians in Arkansas in June 1673, while fellow explorer Louis Joliet looks on; taken from John Hugh Reynolds’s Makers of Arkansas History.
History of Arkansas - Wikipedia
In 1673, French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the Arkansas River on an expedition to map the Mississippi River. After a calumet with friendly Quapaw, the group suspected the Spanish to be nearby and returned north.
Camden, Arkansas - Wikipedia
Camden is a city in and the county seat of Ouachita County in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city is located about 100 miles south of Little Rock. Situated on bluffs overlooking the Ouachita River, the city developed because of the river.