35-xx-xx ep01Rene Robert Cavelier de La Salle

Frontier Fighters! The Starring Tails of the Men and Women who have pushed the frontier of North America ever-westward. In the 17th century, France gave to America many great men.

Soldiers, statesmen, missionable above all the rest, stands the immortal figure of Sier Robert Chevalier de La Salle. This gentleborn Frenchman's great ambition is zest for explorations, his harshness and quick temper in the face of calamity, often got him into predicaments with his associates, his creditors, and the French authorities, both in Paris and in Canada.

Pod pressed financially, La Salle meets with his former sponsors. The time is early summer of 1681. He is 20 minutes late. I remember my wife, I'd be holding a dinner tonight. Oh, so long, Salle. You're here at last.

About time, too. You're part of the Miss Year for my tardiness. I was detained. You wanted it this time. Gold again? Yes, Miss Year Gold. Much gold. For an answer grand expedition. He wants still more gold. Not only for his next expedition, but to pay off his creditors for his last adventuring.

You state the case perfectly, Miss Year. Loth Al? You won't get us in and away from me. No, me. No, Miss Year, I implore you. It is for the glory of France. That's what you told us when we pronounce your silly boy It's down the way of the river to find China.

Listen, you were insane then. You're still insane. China and the Americas. Everyone knows where China lives. Very well? Where lies China? China or China somewhere? South and where? See, Miss Yir, there's your answer. What answer?

The answer to all my adventurings in strange places financed by your gold. When nuns seem to know where any country lies, I take it upon myself to find it. And what do you bring back to us?