The Manuscript Hunter

Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg

• Hardcover | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 84
• In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874) amassed hu... Lees meer

A Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819

Thomas Nuttall

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 66
• This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall's ... Lees meer

Mapping the Four Corners

Robert S McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel
• In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they th... Lees meer

The Fur Hunters of the Far West, Volume 20

Alexander Ross

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 20
• Alexander Ross offers a completely authentic account of the earliest attempts by men of European background to come to grips with the climate, geograp... Lees meer

A Traveler in Indian Territory

Ethan A Hitchcock

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 75
• In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by ... Lees meer

The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America 1492-1493

Fray Bartolome De La Casas, Christopher Columbus

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 70
• This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately... Lees meer

Life in the Far West

George Frederick Ruxton

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 14
• In this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton, who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twenty-seven, brilliantly brings t... Lees meer

Ruxton of the Rockies

George Frederick Ruxton

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 13
• More than a travel book, more than an autobiography, Ruxon of the Rockies is a rare and vivid account of a man who lived during a heroic age: George F... Lees meer

Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains

W. Raymond Wood, Thomas D. Thiessen

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 68
• "Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains presents a lengthy introduction plus a unique combination of five journals, or portions of journals, of North ... Lees meer

The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott

Richard Smith Elliott

• Hardcover | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 76
• When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri vo... Lees meer

The March of the Montana Column

James H Bradley

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 32
• This is a journal kept by Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry, which records in considerable detail the major incidents of the march o... Lees meer

Navaho Expedition

James H Simpson

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 43
• In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navaho country in present-day ... Lees meer

Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail

Matthew C Field, Clyde Porter, Mae R Porter

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 29
• In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune , Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Le... Lees meer

An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830, Volume 81

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 81
• In 1827 six Osage people--four men and two women--traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three shor... Lees meer

The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott

Richard Smith Elliott

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 76
• When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri vo... Lees meer

The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge

Richard Irving Dodge

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 74
• In the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills ... Lees meer

The Missouri Expedition, 1818-1820

John Gale

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 56
• Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States governme... Lees meer

Prologue to Lewis and Clark

W Raymond Wood

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 79
• "To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795-97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis an... Lees meer

A Naturalist in Indian Territory, Volume 72

S W Woodhouse

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 72
• In the spring of 1849 young Philadelphia physician S. W. Woodhouse, an avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions, one in... Lees meer

Great Surveys of the American West, Volume 38

Richard a Bartlett

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 38
• "A book of great sweep and of sharp and shifting focus. It portrays the hugeness, harshness and magnificence of the land and the stamin and ardor of t... Lees meer

Daily Life in Colonial Mexico

Da Bergamo Ilarione

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 78
• Volume 78 in The American Exploration and Travel Series After returning to his Italian monastery in 1770, a Capuchin friar named Ilarione da Bergamo w... Lees meer

Exploring with Lewis and Clark, Volume 80

Charles Floyd

• Hardcover | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 80
• Sergeant Charles Floyd was one of the first three men enlisted in Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. Born around 1782 in Louisville, Kentucky, and ... Lees meer

Commerce of the Prairies, Volume 17

Josiah Gregg

• Paperback | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 17
• Volume 17 in the American Exploration and Travel Series "[Commerce of the Prairies] has become established as the classic of the Santa Fe Trail and of... Lees meer

Mapping the Four Corners, 83

Robert McPherson, Susan Neel

• Hardcover | Engels | American Exploration and Travel | nr. 83
• In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they th... Lees meer