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" Exploring North America, 1800-1900 / "
Maurice Isserman.
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BL
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965013
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b719383
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| Main Entry
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Isserman, Maurice.
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Exploring North America, 1800-1900 /\ Maurice Isserman.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Facts On File,, ©2005.
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Discovery & exploration
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x, 198 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm.
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0816052638
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: 9780816052639
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Down the "Great Unknown": Grand Canyon, Summer 1869 -- Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, 1869 -- Green, Grand, and Colorado Rivers, 1869 -- Thomas Jefferson's other explorers: Thomas Jefferson's study of North American geography -- Routes of William Dunbar and George Hunter, 1804, and Thomas Freeman and Peter Custis, 1806 -- Northern extent of Spanish settlement in the southwest, ca. 1800: Clash of empires: Spain, the United States, and the opening of the American southwest -- Zebulon Pike's expedition, 1806--1807 -- Fur traders and the exploration of the western frontier: Fur trappers' west, early 19th century -- Wilson Price Hunt's route to Fort Astoria, July 1811--February 15, 1812: Discovery of South Pass -- Fort Astoria and the mouth of the Columbia River, early 19th century -- Peter Skene Ogden's expeditions, 1824--1825 and 1825--1826 -- Peter Skene Ogden's expeditions, 1826--1827 and 1827--1828 -- Peter Skene Ogden's expeditions, 1828--1829 and 1829--1830: African Americans in the western fur trade -- Exploration of western Canada: Fur trade to 1760 and fur trade after 1760 -- Canadian west, 1840s: How Alexander Mackenzie inspired the Lewis and Clark expedition -- Northwest Company explorers and the Pacific Ocean, 1792--1812 -- U.S. Army Corps of topographical engineers: Transcontinental railroad surveys of the 1850s: Pacific railroad surveys, 1853--1855 -- John C. Fremont and the exploration of California -- John C. Fremont's Expedition, 1845 -- Natural history and art: John James Audubon: Artist as predator -- "Stain on a painter's palette'': Smallpox and the fate of the plains Indians -- John Wesley Powell: Scientist as explorer: Bureau of ethnology -- John Wesley Powell's expedition, 1868: Clarence King and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872 -- Exploration of Alaska: George Wilhelm Steller's voyage to Alaska -- Alaska and Canadian northwest, late 19th century: Jack London and the romance of Alaska -- Wilderness Preservation: John Muir and the Sierra Club -- Creating the American National Park System -- Epilogue the ambiguous legacy of North American exploration.
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| Abstract
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Presents information, images, and maps relating to the exploration of North America, including chapters on the exploration of the Grand Canyon, California, and Alaska, as well as chapters on famous explorers.
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Explorers-- North America-- History-- 19th century, Juvenile literature.
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Explorers-- History-- 19th century.
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Discoveries in geography.
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Erforschung
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Explorers-- North America-- History.
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Explorers.
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North America, Discovery and exploration, Juvenile literature.
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North America, History, 19th century, Juvenile literature.
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North America, Discovery and exploration.
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North America, History, 19th century.
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Nordamerika
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North America, Exploration.
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North America, History.
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North America.
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| Dewey Classification
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917.04/4
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E45.I85 2005
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NQ 9350rvk
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