An early printing of Marquette and Joliet’s travels in the Mississippi valley provided some of the first detailed maps and images of the region. This map from Marquette's book shows the various Native American tribes inhabiting the Mississippi River Valley region, from the Gulf of Mexico at the left-hand side of the map up the Mississippi River to Iroquois country.
Bellin restated cartographically French borders before vast territories were ceded away and lost., From Prevost d'Exiles' "Histoire Generale des Voiages." Paris: Didot, 1757
