Everything about Daniel Greysolon Dulhut totally explained
Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut (
c. 1639 –
25 February 1710) was a
French soldier and
explorer who is the first European known to have visited the area where the city of
Duluth, Minnesota is now located and the headwaters of the
Mississippi River near
Grand Rapids. His name is sometimes anglicized as "DuLuth" and is the namesake of
Duluth, Minnesota.
He was born in
Saint-Germain-Laval, near
Lyon, France, and first visited
New France in 1674. In September 1678, he left
Montreal for
Lake Superior, spending the winter near
Sault Sainte Marie and reaching the western end of the lake in the fall of the following year where he concluded peace talks between the
Saulteur and
Sioux nations. Lured by native stories of the Western or Vermilion Sea (likely the
Great Salt Lake in
Utah), he reached the
Mississippi River via the
Sainte Croix River in 1680 and then headed back to
Fort Michilimackinac, where he heard that jealous
Quebec merchants and the
intendant Jacques Duchesneau de La Doussinière et d'Ambault were slandering him. He was forced to return to Montreal and then France in 1681 to defend himself against false accusations of
treason, returning the following year.
He subsequently established
fortifications to defend French interests at
Fort Caministigoyan at the mouth of the
Kaministiquia River, the site of the city of
Thunder Bay, Ontario, and
Fort St. Joseph (Port Huron) between
Lake Erie and
Huron.
He died of
gout in Montreal 25 February 1710.
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