Title: Exploring the American West, 1803-1879 /
Authors: United States.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior,
Year: 1982
Subjects: Explorers West (U.S.) Biography; West (U.S.) Description and travel.; West (U.S.) Description and travel.; West (U.S.) Description and travel.; West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration.; America Discovery and exploration.
Contents: The lure of the West / by Richard A. Bartlett -- Explorer, mountain man, and scientist / by William H. Goetzmann -- Jeffersonian pathfinders -- The mountain man as explorer -- In search of exotic America -- By land and by sea -- The great post-Civil War surveys -- The pictorial record -- The artists -- The mapmakers -- The photographers.