State-of-the-art cartography is organized chronologically by region to chart the fascinating course of North American exploration from the pre-Columbian voyages to the race to the North Pole in 1909.

The Atlas of North American Exploration: From the Norse Voyages to the Race to the Pole

History

Swanston, Malcolm

Goetzmann, William H.

Williams, Glyndwr

Lewis, Isabelle

Land, Jacqueline

Americas

Macmillan General* Reference

A history of nineteenth-century Western exploration which reveals its cultural and intellectual effects on the nation as a whole

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Through the narrative of an historian and the interpretations of an art historian the West comes alive as the root of the American dream

The West of the Imagination

Literature & Fiction

United States

W.W.Norton&Company

In this classic work, Goetzmann argues that the exploration of the American West was not a series of haphazard adventures motivated by personal gain, but rather a series of carefully planned missions to promote the national good. He draws on the diaries and letters of explorers to contrast the early American expeditions, sponsored by the federal government to promote national development, with private British ventures, such as the Hudson’s Bay Company, which sought commercial gain.Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were the first explorers with a broad and explicit sense of national purpose, setting out in 1804 with instructions from President Thomas Jefferson to collect information covering the whole range of natural history from geology to Indian vocabularies.” And as Lewis and Clark traveled toward the American Northwest, William Dunbar and Dr. George Hunter journeyed south to collect information on the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.Two major eras of Western exploration followed the one launched by Lewis and Clark: the period of settlement and investment (18451860) and the era of the great surveys (18601900). During the first of these, explorers such as John B. Weller and John Russell Bartlett became political diplomats as well as discoverers as they surveyed the boundary between the U.S. and Mexico. During the second period, explorers were no longer discoverers or diplomats, but academic scientists, such as Josiah Dwight Whitney, whose philosophy influenced twentieth-century attitudes toward conservation and the environment.

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

Vintage Books

From 1776, when Citizen Tom Paine declared, The birthday of a new world is at hand,” America was unique in world history. A nation suffused with the spirit of explorers, constantly replenished by immigrants, and informed by a continual influx of foreign ideas, it was the world's first truly cosmopolitan civilization.
In Beyond the Revolution, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann tells the story of America's greatest thinkers and creators, from Paine and Jefferson to Melville and William James, showing how they built upon and battled one another's ideas in the critical years between 1776 and 1900. An unprecedented work of intellectual history by a master historian, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of our national culture.

Beyond the Revolution: A History of American Thought from Paine to Pragmatism

Computers & Technology

Programming

Basic Books

A study of American expansionism which examines eight crucial periods in which the U.S. was involved in foreign wars

When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Diplomacy, 1800-1860

Random House, Inc.

An authoritative and beautiful new standard in history and geography reference--co-authored by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. Organized chronologically by region, each of the 84 double-page spreads covers a particular expedition led by explorers such as Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Daniel Boone, Cabeza de Vaca, and others. 150 color illustrations; 80 full-color maps.

The Atlas of North American Exploration

Reference

Atlases & Maps

Random House Value Publishing

Official National Park illustrated handbook chronicles how the land between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean was explored, mapped, photographed, and settled between 1803 and 1879. Part one includes a brief historical narrative of the events that lured men westward between 1803-1879. Part two describes the mountain men, explorers and scientists who helped in the western expansion to the Pacific Ocean. Part three is a documented pictorial record created by artists, cartographers, and photographers who accompanied the organized expeditions to the west.

Exploring the American West, 1803-1879

Bartlett, Richard A.

Travel

Diane Pub Co.

Examines the life and times of the German scientist and geographer who helped found modern geography and pioneered in plant geography and climatology

Alexander Von Humboldt, Colossus of Exploration (World Explorers)

Gaines, Ann

Children's Books

Chelsea House Pub

Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863

Univ of Nebraska Pr

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