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The atlas of North American exploration : from the Norse voyages to the race to the pole /
Atlas of exploration containing over 100 color maps, historical background of each expedition, excerpts from journals, and diaries of early explorers.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface (p.9)
- America : found, lost, and found again / David Beers Quinn (p.10)
- Part I.A continent on the edge of the world (p.18)
- The Atlantic coasts revealed. The voyage of John Cabot, 1497 (p.20)
- Ponce de Leon to Ayllon, 1513-26 (p.22)
- The voyage of Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524 (p.24)
- The explorations of Jacques Cartier, 1534-36 p0.26)
- The voyages of Frobisher and Davis, 1576-87 (p.28)
- The voyages of Hudson and Baffin, 1610-16 (p.30)
- The Spanish borderlands. The wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36 (p.32)
- The expedition of Hernando de Soto, 1539-43 (p.34)
- The expedition of Vasquez de Coronado, 1540-42 (p.36)
- Spanish coastal voyages, 1539-43 (p.38)
- Drake, Vizcaino and Onate, 1579-1609 (p.40)
- The Apocryphal voyages, 1592-1640 (p.42).
- Cont.): Part II. The opening of the continent (p.44)
- Rugged and laborious beginnings. Franco-Spanish rivalry, 1562-74 (p.46)
- English colonizing attempts in "Virginia, " 1584-90 (p.48)
- Newfoundland fishery and settlement, 1500-1763 (p.50)
- French settlement in Canada, 1600-08 (p.52)
- Explorations on the Northeast coast, 1602-16 (p.54)
- Captain John Smith and the settling of Virginia, 1607-12 (p.56)
- The quest for the Western sea. The travels of Samuel de Champlain, 1609-16 (p.58)
- The Jesuit missionaries, 1630-70 (p.60)
- The journey of Jolliet and Marquette, 1673 (p.62)
- The journey of LaSalle, 1682 (p.64)
- Trade and exploration in Hudson Bay, 1659-90 (p.66)
- The journeys of Dulhut, Noyon and Kelsey, 1678-92 (p.68).
- Cont.): Part III : Expanding frontiers (p.70)
- To the mountains and beyond. The expansion of the northern colonies, 1630-1700 (p.72)
- Explorers from Virginia, 1670-1750 (p.74)
- Exploration and trade from South Carolina, 1670-1715 (p.76)
- The extension of knowledge in the southern colonies, 1712-30 (p.78)
- Trade and diplomacy in the Ohio Country, 1729-54 (p.80)
- The explorations of Salley, Walker and Gist, 1742-52 (p.82)
- Daniel Boone and the opening of the trans-Appalachian west, 1763-76 (p.84)
- The travels and writings of Jonathan Carver, 1766-78 (p.86)
- The trans-Mississippi west. La Salle in the Gulf of Mexico, 1684-86 (p.88)
- Land and sea searches for La Salle, 1686-90 (p.90)
- European beginnings in Louisiana and Texas, 1698-1722 (p.92)
- Bourgmont's explorations along the Missouri, 1712-24 (p.94)
- The explorations of the Verendryes, 1738-43 (p.96)
- The explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet, 1739-40 (p.98).
- Cont.): Part IV : ocean to ocean (p.100)
- The northern fur trade. The tragic voyage of James Knight, 1719 (p.102)
- French explorations from Lake Supeior to the Saskatchewan, 1731-53 (p.104)
- The voyages of Middleton, Moor and Coats, 1741-49 (p.106)
- The journey of Samuel Hearne, 1771-72 (p.108)
- Fur traders on the Canadian Prairies, 1754-74 (p.110)
- The expansion of the fur trade into Athabasca, 1778-87 (p.112) -The journeys of Alexander Mackenzie, 1789 and 1793 (p.114)
- The inland surveys of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1778-1812 (p.116)
- The explorations of Fraser and Thompson, 1805-11 (p.118)
- The Pacific Northwest. The journeys of Father Kino, 1687-1702
- The voyages of Bering and the Russians, 1728-68 (p.122)
- Spanish expansion into Upper California, 1769-76 (p.124)
- Spanish interior explorations, 1774-76 (p.126).
- Cont.): Spanish coastal voyages, 1774-79 (p.128)
- The voyage of James Cook, 1778 (p.130)
- Traders and explorers, 1785-94 (p.132)
- Jeffersonian pathfinders. Missouri explorations, 1792-97 (p.134)
- The journey of Lewis and Clark, 1805-06 (p.136)
- Spanish trailblazers in the old southwest, 1786-1808 (p.138)
- Trappers and traders in Louisiana and Texas, 1792-1827 (p.140)
- The Astorians, 1810-12 (p.142)
- The expeditions of Pike and Long, 1806-20 (p.144)
- Fur trade and empires. Expeditions from Lisa's Fort Raymond, 18707-12 (p.146)
- Canadians in the American west, 1818-30 (p.148)
- Trappers and traders in the central Rockies, 1822-26 (p.150)
- The expeditions of Jedediah Smith, 1826-31 (p.152)
- James Ohio Pattie, 1824-32 (p.154)
- The expeditions of Bonneville and Walker, 1832-34 (p.156).
- Cont.): The great reconnaissance. The surveys of Lieutenant Fremont, 1842-48 (p.158)
- Emory's Mexican War reconnaissance, 1846 (p.160)
- The surveys of Simpson and Sitgreaves, 1849-51 (p.162)
- The surveys of Ives and Macomb, 1857-59 (p.164)
- The great railroad surveys, 1853-55 (p.166)
- Artists and scientists of the Great Pacific Railroad surveys (p.168)
- The great surveys. The surveys of King and Wheeler, 1867-73 (p.170)
- The surveys of John Wesley Powell, 1869-78 (p.172)
- Clarence E. Dutton and William H. Holmes, 1874-82 (p.174)
- Explorers of the Yellowstone, 1869-71 (p.176)
- Ferdinand Hayden's survey, 1873-76 (p.178).
- Cont.): The far north (p.180)
- To the top of the continent. The Russians in Alaska, 1790-1863 (p.182)
- The exploration of the Labrador Peninsula, 1816-43 (p.184)
- Searches for the Northwest Passage, 1818-45 (p.186)
- The surveys of Palliser and Hind, 1857-59 (p.188)
- Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage, 1846-1905 (p.190)
- US Alaska and the Yukon gold rush, 1866-98 (p.194)
- Explorations in the Arctic archipelago, 1906-18 (p.196)
- The race to the Pole, 1853-1909 (p.198)
- Bibliography (p.203)
- Index (p.210)
- Acknowlegments (p.223).