Extracts related to Etienne Brule's Discovery of Lake Superior
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- 1622
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Brule, an interpreter for Champlain, journeyed into the far West with Huron guides in 1622 or 1623. He is believed to have communicated this adventure to his employer and to author Gabriel Sagard-Théodat. The only evidence of his trip to Lake Superior consists of two documents. The first is a handful of scattered references in a book written by Sagard a few years after Brule's death, given here in their entirety in French and English. The other is a reasonably accurate depiction of Lake Superior on a map published in 1632 by Champlain (given elsewhere in Turning Points), who had himself never set foot near the lake; many scholars assume its information came from Champlain's protege Brule. Unfortunately Sagard's mentions of what Brule saw are tantalizingly few and very vague, and the distances he stated are wildly impossible, so scholars have been reluctant to say Brule reached Wisconsin before Nicolet. Examine the fragmentary evidence communicated by Sagard as shown here and decide for
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Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel, 17th cent
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- Recollection Wisconsin
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- Wisconsin Historical Society
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- Stacks
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- Helman-Taylor Co
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- text
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- French; English
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- Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel, 17th cent. Extracts related to Etienne Brule's Discovery of Lake Superior. 1622. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42067. (Accessed April 18, 2024.)
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- Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel, 17th cent, (1622) Extracts related to Etienne Brule's Discovery of Lake Superior. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42067
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- Sagard-Théodat, Gabriel, 17th cent. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/42067>.