Why Sieur De Lasalle Matters to Texas

"Rene'-Robert Cavelier, better known as Sieur de La Salle, set out to build a French colony on the mouth of the Mississippi River. Instead, he spend more than two years lost in Texas. The colony he established would be Texas's first European settlement, but La Salle's many miscalculations would cost him and his colonists their lives"--Page 4 of cover.