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"The story of the Great Lakes" by Edward Channing and Marion Florence Lansing is a historical account written in the early 20th century. It charts the discovery, exploration, contest for control, and modern development of the Great Lakes region, from Indigenous homelands and French missions to forts, canals, cities, shipping, and industry.
The opening of this work sets its scope and method in a preface, then moves from a vivid contrast between La Salle’s era and modern Chicago to a clear overview of the lakes’ geography, canals, and economic power. It recounts Champlain’s 1615 journey to the Huron country, the first mass among the Hurons, and a failed assault on an Iroquois fort that left him wintering with his hosts. It then follows the Jesuit missions led by Brébeuf and Jogues: grueling Ottawa–Nipissing routes, mission life and teaching, rising superstition and persecution, brief western forays to Sault Ste. Marie, and the Iroquois onslaught that destroyed Huron towns and scattered
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