The eyes of discovery : the pageant of North America as seen by the first explorers
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Book
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Category
General Library Collection
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Publication Year
1961
Publisher
Pages
439
Subject
America -- Discovery and exploration
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Abstract
"Recreates the experiences of the men who first discovered and explored North America."--Amazon.
Biblio Notes
Contents:
The white discoverers --
The Red discoverers --
The Red Man's Dixie --
De Soto tours the New World --
Coronado's country --
Coronado in Kansas --
Cartier comes to Canada --
Champlain goes farther --
"We were Caesars" --
Verendrye and his sons --
The English in Virginia --
The finding of New England --
The Manitou at Manhattan --
Into Pennsylvania --
West to Pittsburgh --
The sieur de La Salle explores --
The wild Middle West --
Father of waters --
Beyond the Mississippi --
Up the Missouri --
"The Coast." Illustrations: Panel from a map made in 1711. "A view of the industry of the beavers in Canada in making dams to stop the course of a rivulet to form a great lake, about which they build their habitations." Also an early drawing of Niagara Falls --
Parkman's copy of an early map of the upper Mississippi, showing the Indian cliff painting of the Piasaw monster --
Minnetaree village of earth-covered lodges on the Knife River, 1848 / George Catlin --
Nineteenth-century representation of the Piasaw Rock near Alton, Illinois --
Florida swamp / from Picturesque America, 1872 --
Forest scene on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania / engraved from a painting by Karl Bodmer --
Canyon of Rapid Creek, in the Black Hills / from Reynolds' [W.F. Raynolds'] Exploration of Wyoming and the Yellowstone, 1859-[18]60 --
Indians hunting buffalo / by Charles Wimar, 1861 --
Bear Butte in the Black Hills --
Citadel Rock on the upper Missouri --
Bluffs of the upper Missouri / by Karl Bodmer, from Travels in the interior of North America by Maximilian Wied-Neuwied --
Hypothetical reconstructions of Indian dwellings in Chaco Canyon, Arizona / painted by Robert Coffin --
Montezuma Castle, Indian ruin, Prescott National Forest, Arizona / photo by Edgar L. Perry --
The engraved lead plate lef by the Verendyres at what if now Pierre, South Dakota, March, 1743 --
Indian paintings on a cliff at North Hegman Lake, Superior National Forest --
Primitive forest of white pine type near Elk Butte, Idaho --
Scene in Lolo National Forest, Selway Wilderness area, Idaho --
Buffalo crossing the Yellowstone / Charles Wimar, 1859.
The white discoverers --
The Red discoverers --
The Red Man's Dixie --
De Soto tours the New World --
Coronado's country --
Coronado in Kansas --
Cartier comes to Canada --
Champlain goes farther --
"We were Caesars" --
Verendrye and his sons --
The English in Virginia --
The finding of New England --
The Manitou at Manhattan --
Into Pennsylvania --
West to Pittsburgh --
The sieur de La Salle explores --
The wild Middle West --
Father of waters --
Beyond the Mississippi --
Up the Missouri --
"The Coast." Illustrations: Panel from a map made in 1711. "A view of the industry of the beavers in Canada in making dams to stop the course of a rivulet to form a great lake, about which they build their habitations." Also an early drawing of Niagara Falls --
Parkman's copy of an early map of the upper Mississippi, showing the Indian cliff painting of the Piasaw monster --
Minnetaree village of earth-covered lodges on the Knife River, 1848 / George Catlin --
Nineteenth-century representation of the Piasaw Rock near Alton, Illinois --
Florida swamp / from Picturesque America, 1872 --
Forest scene on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania / engraved from a painting by Karl Bodmer --
Canyon of Rapid Creek, in the Black Hills / from Reynolds' [W.F. Raynolds'] Exploration of Wyoming and the Yellowstone, 1859-[18]60 --
Indians hunting buffalo / by Charles Wimar, 1861 --
Bear Butte in the Black Hills --
Citadel Rock on the upper Missouri --
Bluffs of the upper Missouri / by Karl Bodmer, from Travels in the interior of North America by Maximilian Wied-Neuwied --
Hypothetical reconstructions of Indian dwellings in Chaco Canyon, Arizona / painted by Robert Coffin --
Montezuma Castle, Indian ruin, Prescott National Forest, Arizona / photo by Edgar L. Perry --
The engraved lead plate lef by the Verendyres at what if now Pierre, South Dakota, March, 1743 --
Indian paintings on a cliff at North Hegman Lake, Superior National Forest --
Primitive forest of white pine type near Elk Butte, Idaho --
Scene in Lolo National Forest, Selway Wilderness area, Idaho --
Buffalo crossing the Yellowstone / Charles Wimar, 1859.
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