The devil may care
Subtitle: fifty intrepid Americans and their quest for the unknown
By: edited by Tony Horwitz.
Contributors: Horwitz, Tony, 1958-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography; Explorers -- United States -- Biography; United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: American national biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-274) and index.
Biographies selected from the American national biography.
Table of contents: title: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; title: John Smith; title: David Pietersen de Vries; title: Francesco Giuseppe Bressani; title: Hannah Duston; title: Sir Alexander Cuming; title: Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey; title: Jean Baptiste Point du Sable; title: Samuel Mason; title: John Ledyard; title: Simon Kenton; title: George Crowninshield, Jr.; title: Anne Newport Royall; title: John Colter; title: Giacomo Constantino Beltrami; title: Marie Dorion; title: Frances Wright; title: George Catlin; title: Samuel Patch; title: David Douglas; title: John August Sutter; title: Jacob Netsvetov; title: James Bridger; title: Eliza Hart Spalding; title: John Wise; title: Albert Pike; title: Grizzly Adams; title: Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa; title: John Charles Frémont; title: Elisha Kent Kane; title: Edward Zane; title: Carroll Judson; title: William Walker; title: California Joe; title: John Morrissey; title: Mary Ann Brown Patten; title: Buffalo Jones; title: Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclercq; title: Joy Salm-Salm; title: Joshua Slocum; title: Railroad Bill; title: Ishi; title: David Fagen; title: Belle Livingstone; title: Hiram Bingham; title: Duncan Hines; title: Louise Arner Boyd; title: Annette Kellerman; title: Duke Paoa Kahanamoku; title: Merian Coldwell Cooper; title: Hubert F. Julian; title: Richard Halliburton.