Explorers, missionaries, and trappers
Subtitle: trailblazers of the West
By: Kieran Doherty
Series: Shaping America
Publisher: Oliver Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781881508526
Subjects: Missionaries; Frontier and pioneer life; Pioneers; Trappers; Juvenile literature; Explorers; Biography
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-169) and index.
Table of contents: title: Juan de Oñate and the founding of New Mexico --; title: Eusebio Kino and the missions of Arizona --; title: Junipero Serra and Spanish California --; title: John Sutter and the opening of California --; title: John McLoughlin and the British Northwest --; title: The Whitmans and the mission in Washington --; title: Peter de Smet and the Montana and Idaho missions --; title: Brigham Young and the Mormon Zion of Utah.