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Across the Mississippi from the mouth of the Wisconsin River, on June 17, 1673, Pere Marquette and Louis Joliet entered the Mississippi in two small canoes. They were the first white men to discover the Upper Mississippi River and set foot on Iowa soil.
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McGregor, Iowa · United States
