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  Dulhut, Daniel Greysolon
Dulhut, Daniel Greysolon, COUREUR DE BOIS, fur trader, explorer (b at St-Germain-Laval, France c 1639; d at Montréal 25 Feb 1710).
In 1678-79 with a small party he travelled to the country of the Sioux (headwaters of the Mississippi), where he formally claimed the area for France, persuaded the Sioux [DAKOTA] and their neighbours to accept a tentative peace agreement, and began a profitable trade in furs.
Dulhut took part in the campaigns of the IROQUOIS WARS in 1687, 1689 and 1696, when he was left in command at FORT FRONTENAC.
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 Dulhut, Daniel Greysolon
Dulhut, Daniel Greysolon, COUREUR DE BOIS, commerçant de fourrures et explorateur (Saint-Germain-Laval, France, v.
Dulhut contribue à l'expansion de l'empire français de la traite dans le secteur supérieur des Grands Lacs (voir TRAITE DES FOURRURES).
Dulhut prend part aux campagnes de 1687, de 1689 et de 1696 des GUERRES IROQUOISES, pendant qu'il commande le FORT FRONTENAC.
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 Daniel Greysolon Dulhut (The man Duluth is named after)
Daniel Greysolon Dulhut lands at Québec near the end of 1674.
While Duchesneau refuses to see Dulhut or to listen to his explanations, Frontenac protects him and encourages him to return to France to plead his case and to ask that he be granted the ownership of a post that he would build on Lake Superior.
Until the spring of 1689, when he is recalled to the colony, Daniel Greysolon Dulhut ensures that the authority of New France in the Great Lakes area is never questioned.
journals.aol.com /ondamitag/NorthernHistorically/entries/2005/09/05/daniel-greysolon-dulhut-the-man-duluth-is-named-after/758   (1515 words)

  
 DANIEL GREYSOLON DULUTH: An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society
Included are copies of his Last Will and Testament and an inventory of the estate of DuLhut, and items relating to DuLhut and a banquet given in his honor and in honor of the city of Duluth by the Rotary Club of St. Germain-Laval.
Included are a copy of a manuscript signed by DuLhut at Michilimackinac (1861), in French; copies of a Last Will and Testament and inventory of the estate of DuLhut (1709, 1710), in French; translations of the will and inventory of the estate and a handwritten translation of the Sealing of the Goods of Mr.
Also included are copies of four items, in French, relating to DuLhut and a banquet given in his honor and in honor of the city of Duluth by the Rotary Club of St. Germain-Laval (1954).
www.mnhs.org /library/findaids/P355.html   (445 words)

  
 Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut Summary
Born into French nobility, Dulhut set sail for New France (Canada) in 1674 and settled in Montreal the following year.
In 1678, he formed an expedition to try to form alliances between the French and the Native American populations living along the Lake Superior shoreline.
Sieur Daniel Greysolon Dulhut from Science and Its Times.
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 Discoverers Web: North America
British, French and Spanish explorers can be found in the parts above.
Life and adventures of Col. Daniel Boone (18th century biography)
Mountain Men and the Fur Trade - sources of the history of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West
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