TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher’s stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the ...

New Orleans will celebrate its tricentennial next year, but if not for a bumbling Frenchman, that anniversary might have come 30 years earlier. In 1684, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, who is ...

IN 1995 archaeologists built a cofferdam in Matagorda Bay near Pass Cavallo, pumped the seawater out and retrieved from the mud the timbers, cannon and one long-dead sailor of a 300-year-old French ...

PALACIOS, Texas (KTRK) -- Tourists can now learn more about the history of the expedition ship La Belle through its replica. The tourist attraction is in the Matagorda County town of Palacios. La ...

The Museum of the Coastal Bend will take visitors back in time with one of the earliest colonial settlements in Texas. Heather Para, Ph. D., museum exhibits and collections manager, will guide ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) – As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher’s stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the ...

Timbers protrude from the bottom of Lake Michigan that were discovered by Steve Libert, head of Great Lakes Exploration Group, in 2001. On Saturday, Libert will lead a diving expedition to an ...

As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher's stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi in a quest for a ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher's stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — As a teenager, Steve Libert was mesmerized by a teacher's stories of the brash 17th Century French explorer La Salle, who journeyed across the Great Lakes and down the ...