American journeys
Subtitle: eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement : a digital library and learning center.
Contributors: Wisconsin Historical Society.; National History Day (Organization)
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Published: 2003
Place of publication: [Madison, WI]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Explorers -- North America -- History.; America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources.; United States -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources.; North America -- Discovery and exploration -- Sources.
Genres: Sources.
Description: "Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society"--home page.
Notes: Collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day.
Title from Web page (viewed on November 14, 2005).
"Funded by the U.S. Institute of Museum & Library Services and by private donors, American journeys is a collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day."
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.