This book has information about various explorers including Lewis & Clark.
The story of their two-and-a-half-year expedition.
The Perilous West tells the story of seven adventurers who traveled west in 1806 and forged the Oregon Trail.
Official National Park illustrated handbook chronicles how the land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean was explored, mapped, photographed, and settled between 1803 and 1879. Part one includes...
Goetzmann, William H. The Atlas of North American ... America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 2004. Hine, Robert V. and John M. Faragher. ... Johnson, David Alan.
This book considers the impact of early European explorers—including the Spanish conquistadors and French explorers of the 18th century—on what would one day become the state of Colorado.
Details the experiences of the first American citizens to reach the Pacific Ocean by land, including harsh conditions and assistance from diverse Native American tribes.
Follows the life of the nineteenth-century trapper and explorer who earned his reputation on the western frontier.
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning Exploration and Empire, William H. Goetzmann analyzes the special role the explorer played in shaping the vast region once called the Great American Desert.
Presents the founding of the American West through the lives of explorers and settlers such as Eusebio Kino in Arizona, Junipero Serra in Spanish California, and Brigham Young in Utah.
Explorers of the American West