Encounters with a distant land : exploration and the great Northwest /

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Imprint:Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1994.
Description:xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1754805
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Other authors / contributors:Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-
Pickett, Evelyne.
ISBN:0893011657
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Exploring the Great Northwest: Personal Observations and an Overview / Carlos A. Schwantes
  • 2. Western Exploration and Its Impact / William H. Goetzmann
  • 3. In Search of the Great Bear: A Historiography of Russian Exploration in Alaska and California / Stephen Haycox
  • 4. Images of Reality: Early Spanish Artists on the Pacific Coast / Iris H. W. Engstrand
  • 5. Peter Pond and the Exploration of the Greater Northwest / James P. Ronda
  • 6. Language and Exploration: The Role of the Chinook Jargon / Richard Maxwell Brown
  • 7. Lewis and Clark: Meeting the Challenges of the Trail / Gary E. Moulton
  • 8. The Men of the Fremont Expedition: Their Backgrounds and Recruitment / Mary Lee Spence
  • 9. Isaac I. Stevens and the Expeditionary Artists of the Northern West / David Nicandri
  • 10. Anthropological Exploration in the Great Northwest, 1778-1889 and After / Douglas Cole
  • 11. A Taxonomy for Discovery / Martin Ridge
  • 12. Exploration History: A Publisher's Overview / Patricia Knapp
  • 13. Keeping It in Perspective: Getting Exploration History into State and Local Journals / William L. Lang
  • 14. On the Trail of Lewis and Clark Today / Robert Carriker.