After four years of exploration, Ren-Robert Cavelier ... Wandering two years without maps, Ren-Robert Cavelier de la Salle led a disastrous expedition through the marshes of the Mississippi ...

A Jesuit novice turned fur trader and explorer, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, was the first European to navigate the length of the Mississippi River in his expedition of 1682.

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 a shipwreck hunter ...