Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents eBook

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This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document’s relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective. This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers’ historical literacy by modeling historians’ methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.

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Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents is written by Jay H. Buckley; Jeffery D. Nokes and published by ABC-CLIO. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents are 9781610697323, 1610697324 and the print ISBNs are 9781610697316, 1610697316.