Exploring the American West, 1803-1879
By: produced by the Division of Publications, National Park Service.
Contributors: United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications.
Series: National Park Handbooks ;
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
Subjects: Explorers -- West (U.S.) -- Biography; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Discovery and exploration
Description: Handbook 116
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: label: Part 1
title: The Lure of the West / by Richard A. Bartlett
pagenum: 5; label: Part 2
title: Explorer, Mountain Man, and Scientist / by William H. Goetzmann
pagenum: 17; title: Jeffersonian Pathfinders
pagenum: 21; title: The Mountain Man As Explorer
pagenum: 35; title: In Search of Exotic America: European Explorers in the West
pagenum: 55; title: By Land and By Sea: Military Exploration of the Great West
pagenum: 65; title: The Great Post-Civil War Surveys
pagenum: 83; label: Part 3
title: The Pictorial Record
pagenum: 97; title: The Artists
pagenum: 100; title: The Mapmakers
pagenum: 106; title: The Photographers
pagenum: 110; title: Index
pagenum: 126