As La Salle University's explorer mascot, Alexis Sanchez stays silent and lets her body's movements do the speaking for her. But at the school's graduation ceremony on Saturday, as commencement ...

PORT O’CONNOR, Texas — Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, charted the Great Lakes, discovered the mouth of the Mississippi and claimed half the continent for France. But he was not well-liked.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — 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 ...

ON LAKE MICHIGAN near Poverty Island, Mich. -- Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ...

Translation of: Cavelier de La Salle, ou, L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV. Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and ...