Robert de la Salle

Father Louis Hennepin's woodcut of the Griffon

19 January, 2015 - 00:33 Mark Miller

Ill-fated ship of ill-fated explorer reportedly found in Lake Michigan

In the 17 th century, Europeans came to what they called the New World and started divvying it up and parceling it out under the rubric of ‘exploration’. One particularly grasping Frenchman was...