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Marquette's Journey Across the Site of Chicago
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''2 leagues up the river, we resolved to winter there, as it was impossible to go farther, since...my ailment did not permit.'' -- Marquette's Journal, 1674-75.
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The Meeting with the Illinois
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''They replied that they were Illinois; and, as a token of peace, they offered us their pipes to smoke.'' -- Marquette's Journal, 1673.
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Trentanove's Statue of Marquette
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Now in the Capitol at Washington; a replica, in bronze, is at Marquette, Mich. The subject is idealized; there is no attempt at a portrait.
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Attacked by the Mitchigamea
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''In vain I showed The calumet, and made them signs that we were not coming to war against them.'' -- Marquette's Journal, 1673.
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Entering the Wisconsin River at Portage
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''Thus we left the Waters flowing to Quebeq...to float on Those that would thenceforward Take us through strange lands.'' -- Marquette's Journal, 1673.
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The Death of Marquette
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''Dying...as he had always prayed, in a Wretched cabin in the midst of the forests and bereft of all human succor.'' -- Dablon's Narrative.
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Burial of Marquette at St. Ignace
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, Bronze relief, Marquette Building, Chicago, ''After that, the Body was carried to the church, care being taken to observe all that the ritual appoints.'' -- Dablon's Narrative.
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Reputed Portrait of Marquette
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Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Father Marquette. New York: D. Appleton, 1914., Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, Aurora University, From oil portrait by unknown artist, discovered in Montreal in 1897.
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Fort Dearborn
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Kinzie, Juliette Augusta. Narrative of the Massacre at Chicago, Saturday, August 15, 1812. Chicago: Fergus Printing Co., 1914., Newberry Library
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Black Hawk
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Quaife, Milo Milton, ed. Life of Black Hawk, Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1916., Northern Illinois University
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A Portion of Franquelin's Great Map of 1688
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St. Cosme. "The Voyage of St. Cosme, 1698-1699" in Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917., Northern Illinois University, Dépót des Cartes, Paris, From a copy in the Library of Congress
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Contemporary Map Made to Illustrate Marquette's Discoveries
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Marquette, Jacques. "The Mississippi Voyage of Jolliet and Marquette, 1673" in Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917., Northern Illinois University, From the original in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
