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Exploration and empire: the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West

William H. Goetzmann 1993 © Mewes M. Goetzmann
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  • American: Colonial to 1789
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  • PART ONE Exploration and Imperialism: 1805-45
    • CHAPTER I Westward the Clash of Empires (page 3)
    • CHAPTER II The Rediscovery of the Southwest (page 36)
    • CHAPTER III Canada Moves South (page 79)
    • CHAPTER IV The Mountain Men (page 105)
    • CHAPTER V Something More Than Beaver (page 146)
    • CHAPTER VI The Romantic Horizon (page 181)
  • PART TWO The Great Reconnaissance and Manifest Destiny: 1845-60
    • CHAPTER VII When the Eagle Screamed: The Explorer as Diplomat in the Final Clash of Imperial Energies (page 231)
    • CHAPTER VIII In Search of an Iron Trail (page 265)
    • CHAPTER IX The Great Reconnaissance (page 303)
  • PART THREE Exploration and the Great Surveys: 1860-1900
    • Chapter X The New Mountain Men: California's Geological Survey (page 355)
    • Chapter XI The Army Way (page 390)
    • Chapter XII The West of Clarence King (page 430)
    • CHAPTER XIII The Last Stand of the Army Explorer (page 467)
    • CHAPTER XIV F.W. Hayden: Gilded Age Explorer (page 489)
    • CHAPTER XV John Wesley Powell: The Explorer as Reformer (page 530)
    • CHAPTER XVI Epilogue: Beyond the Explorer's Frontier (page 577)
  • A Note on the Sources (page 649)
  • Index
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAH 55.1 (1968): 142-143 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28196806%2955%3A1%3C142%3AEAETEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G
JSH 33.2 (1967): 248-249 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-4642%28196705%2933%3A2%3C248%3AEAETEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R
ISIS 58.1 (1967): 138-139 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28196721%2958%3A1%3C138%3AEAETEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
AHR 72.2 (1967): 699-700 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28196701%2972%3A2%3C699%3AEAETEA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
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