The Making of the Great West (Illustrated Edition). Samuel Adams Drake
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Samuel Adams Drake
The Making of the Great West
(Illustrated Edition)
History of the American Frontier 1512-1883
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2018 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-4782-0
Table of Contents
Group I. Three Rival Civilizations
De Soto's Discovery of the Mississippi.
How New Mexico Came to be Explored.
Last Days of Charles V. and Philip II.
Westward by the Great Inland Waterways.
La Salle, Prince of Explorers.
Discovery of the Upper Mississippi.
The Lost Colony: St. Louis of Texas.
Hudson's Bay to the South Sea.
Interlude. — What Jonathan Carver Aimed to Do in 1766.
A Yankee Ship Discovers the Columbia River.
The West at the Opening of the Century.
Group II. Birth of the American Idea
Lewis and Clarke Ascend the Missouri.
Pike Explores the Arkansas Valley. Pike's Peak a Landmark.
Gold in Colorado. A Trapper's Story.
The Trapper, The Backwoodsman, and The Emigrant.