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The explorer was René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, known as Lasalle, who in 1682 canoed down the Mississsippi from the Ohio to the Gulf of Mexico, and claimed the valley for France as La Louisiane (for Louis XIV).

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Marquette and joliet

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Robert la salle.

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