Exploring the Pacific Northwest
By: Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden.
Contributors: Naden, Corinne J.
Series: Exploring the Americas
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: Explorers -- Northwest, Pacific -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.; Explorers.; Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature.; Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.
Genres: Biography; Juvenile literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: who found it?; title: Vitus Bering (1728, 1741): not one continent but two; title: Alexander Mackenzie (1789, 1793): in the far Northwest; title: George Vancouver (1791-94): mapping the coast; title: Robert Gray (1792): a claim on Oregon; title: Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: the great overland expedition (1804-06); title: Zebulon Pike: where does the river begin? (1805-06); title: Manuel Lisa: across the wide Missouri (1807); title: Peter Skene Ogden: tough man in the Northwest (1824-30); title: Epilogue: what did they find?; title: Important dates in the exploration of the Pacific Northwest.