Exploration

[heatherhistorian]

Anderson, Fred.  The War That Made America:  A Short History of the French and Indian War. 

Balesi, Charles John.  Time of the french in the Heart of North America, 1673-1818. 

Blevins, Win.  Give Your Heart to the Hawks.  Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC, 2005.

Borneman, Walter R.  The French and Indian War:  Deciding the Fate of North America. 

Boyle, David.  Toward the Setting Sun:  Columbus, Cabot, Vespucci and the Race for America.  St. Martin's
   Press:  2008.

Clayton, Lawrence, Edward Moore, and Vernon Knight.  De Soto Chronicles:  The Expedition of Hernando de Soto
   to North America in 1539-1543.  University of Alabama Press:  1995.

Chartrand, Rene and Alina Illustrazioni.  French Fortresses in North America 1535-1763:  Quebec, Montreal, Louisbourg and New Orleans.

Christian, Shirley.  Before Lewis and Clark:  The Story of the Chouteaus, the French Dynasty that Ruled America's Frontier.

DeVoto.  Journals of Lewis and Clark.  Houghton Mifflin Company, 1997.

Fisher, David Hackett.  Champlain's Dream.  Simon & Schuster Publishing Co.

Goetzmann, William H. and Glyndwr Williams.  The Atlas of North American Exploration:  From the Norse Voyages to
   the Race to the Pole.  University of Oklahoma Press:  Norman, Ok, 1998.

Harmon, Daniel. E.  The Early French Explorers of North America:  How Giovanni Verazano, Jacques Cartier, Samuel De Champlain, Etienne Brule, and Others Explored the Wilderness...French SettlementsKessell, John L.  Kiva, Cross & Crown:  The Pecos Indians and New Mexico, 1540-1840.  Western National Park
   Association:  Tucson, AZ, 1987.

Kennett, Lee.  The French Forces in America, 1780-1783.

Larkin, Tanya and Annie Sommers.  Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet:  Explorers of the Mississippi.  Rosen
   Publishing Group:  2003.

Litalien, Raymonde, Denis Vaugeois and Kathe Roth.  Champlain:  The Birth of French America. 

Nunez, Alvar, Cabeza de Vaca and Cyclone Covey.  The Journey and Ordeal of Cabeza de Vaca:  His Account of
   the Disastrous First European Exploration of the American Southwest.  Dover Publications:  2004.

Pritchard, James.  In Search of Empire:  The French in the Americas, 1670-1730.

Sandler, Corey.  Henry Hudson:  Dreams and Obsession.  Kensington PUblishing Corporation, 2007.

Simmons, Marc.  The Last Conquistador:  Juan De Onate and The Settling of the Far Southwest.  University of
   Oklahoma Press:  Norman, Ok, 1991.

Sherman, Josepha and Eileen Stevens. Samuel de Champlain:  Explorer of the Great Lakes Region and Founder of
   Quebec.  Brilliance Audio:  2009.

Zronic, John Paul.  Sieur de la Salle:  New World Adventurer.  Crabtree Publishing Company: 2005.

[voyageur1688]

  Good reading for what I see. Also could add --Grace Lee Nute-- The Voyageurs Highway.
Voy

[heatherhistorian]

You just did! haha!  Thank you for the input.