Written from detailed notes taken during this historic journey, Joutel's journal is the most comprehensive and authoritative account available of this dramatic story of adventure and misadventure in Texas. Joutel, who served as post commander for La Salle, describes in accurate and colorful detail the daily experiences and precise route La Salle's party followed in 1687 from the Texas coast to the Mississippi River. By carefully comparing Joutel's compass directions and detailed descriptions to maps and geographic locations, Foster has established where La Salle was murdered by his men, and has corrected many erroneous geographic interpretations made by French and American scholars during the past century.
- ISBN10 0876111657
- ISBN13 9780876111659
- Publish Date 1 November 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 April 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Texas State Historical Association,U.S.
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English