The Atlas of North American Exploration

by Goetzmann, William H.; Williams, Glyndwr

• ISBN13: 9780806130583
• ISBN10: 080613058X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-06-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

For more than five hundred years, explorers roamed the wilderness of North America, some in search of a route to the East or fabled cities of gold, others seeking the glossy pelts of the beaver or souls to convert. From the early voyages of Norse seafarers to the opening of the American, Canadian, and Alaskan frontiers and the grueling twentieth-century race to the North Pole, this great adventure is captured as never before in the lavishly illustrated Atlas of North American Exploration. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann and exploration historian Glyndwr Williams, The Atlas of North American Exploration presents this bold drama through more than one hundred full-color maps employing state-of-the-art cartographic techniques. The routes of explorers Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Daniel Boone, Vitus Bering, Lewis and Clark, Admiral Peary, and dozens more are charted, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and the death or disappearance of expeditions.

Table of Contents

Preface	9	(1)
America: Found, Lost, and Found Again	10	(8)
David Beers Quinn
Part I: A Continent on the Edge of the World	18	(26)
THE ATLANTIC COASTS REVEALED	20	(12)
The Country of the Grand Khan The Voyage of John Cabot, 1497	20	(2)
They Named It La Florida Ponce de Leon to Ayllon, 1513-26	22	(2)
A New Land Never Seen Before The Voyage of Giovanni da Verrazano, 1524	24	(2)
St Lawrence, the River of Canada The Explorations of Jacques Cartier, 1534-36	26	(2)
First Searches for a Northwest Passage The Voyages of Frobisher and Davis, 1576-87 The Great Bays of the North The Voyages of Hudson and Baffin, 1610-16	30	(2)
THE SPANISH BORDERLANDS	32	(12)
Alone and Naked Among the Indians The Wanderings of Cabeza de Vaca, 1528-36	32	(2)
Blade and Buckler The Expedition of Hernando de Soto, 1539-43	34	(2)
The Quest for Cibola The Expedition of Vasquez de Coronado, 1540-42	36	(2)
North to California Spanish Coastal Voyages, 1539-43	38	(2)
English Incursions, Spanish Responses Drake, Vizcaino and Onate, 1579-1609	40	(2)
Fantasies and Fabrications The Apocryphal Voyages, 1592-1640	42	(2)
Part II: The Opening of the Continent	44	(26)
RUGGED AND LABORIOUS BEGINNINGS	46	(12)
The Beginnings of Spanish Florida Franco-Spanish Rivalry, 1562-74	46	(2)
The Lost Colony of Roanoke English Colonizing Attempts in "Virginia," 1584-90	48	(2)
The Golden Fleece Newfoundland Fishery and Settlement, 1500-1763	50	(2)
The Founding of New France French Settlement in Canada, 1600-08	52	(2)
Norembeque Becomes New England Explorations on the Northeast Coast, 1602-16	54	(2)
The First English Colony Captain John Smith and the Settling of Virginia, 1607-12	56	(2)
THE QUEST FOR THE WESTERN SEA	58	(12)
To the Great Lakes The Travels of Samuel de Champlain, 1609-16	58	(2)
The Great Lakes and Beyond The Jesuit Missionaries, 1630-70	60	(2)
Down the Mississippi The Journey of Jolliet and Marquette, 1673	62	(2)
The French Reach the Sea The Journey of La Salle, 1682	64	(2)
The Northern Approach Trade and Exploration in Hudson Bay, 1659-90	66	(2)
Towards the Prairies The Journeys of Dulhut, Noyon and Kelsey, 1678-92	68	(2)
Part III: Expanding Frontiers	70	(30)
TO THE MOUNTAINS AND BEYOND	72	(16)
Inland from the Northeast Seaboard The Expansion of the Northern Colonies, 1630-1700	72	(2)
From Tidewater to Mountains Explorers from Virginia, 1670-1750	74	(2)
A Prospect into Unlimited Empires Exploration and Trade from South Carolina, 1670-1715	76	(2)
Naturalists, Artists and Surveyors The Extension of Knowledge in the Southern Colonies, 1712-30	78	(2)
The Race for the Ohio Trade and Diplomacy in the Ohio Country, 1729-54	80	(2)
From the Blue Ridge to Cumberland Gap The Explorations of Salley, Walker and Gist, 1742-52	82	(2)
Lands Further Off Daniel Boone and the Opening of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1763-76	84	(2)
To Explore the Most Unknown Parts The Travels and Writings of Jonathan Carver, 1766-78	86	(2)
THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI WEST	88	(12)
The Country of His Discovery La Salle in the Gulf of Mexico, 1684-86	88	(2)
A Thorn in the Heart of America Land and Sea Searches for La Salle, 1686-90	90	(2)
New Frontiers European Beginnings in Louisiana and Texas, 1698-1722	92	(2)
The Muddy River Bourgmont's Explorations Along the Missouri, 1712-24	94	(2)
The Land of the Mandan The Explorations of the Verendryes, 1738-43	96	(2)
To Santa Fe from the East The Explorations of Pierre and Paul Mallet, 1739-40	98	(2)
Part IV: Ocean to Ocean	100	(80)
THE NORTHERN FUR TRADE	102	(18)
"Yellow Mettle" and the Strait of Anian The Tragic Voyage of James Knight, 1719	102	(2)
The Search for the River of the West French Explorations from Lake Superior to the Saskatchewan, 1731-53	104	(2)
Asleep at the Edge of a Frozen Sea The Voyages of Middleton, Moor and Coats, 1741-49	106	(2)
To the Arctic Ocean The Journey of Samuel Hearne, 1771-72	108	(2)
Inland from Hudson Bay Fur Traders on the Canadian Prairies, 1754-74	110	(2)
Pond and the Northwesters The Expansion of the Fur Trade into Athabasca, 1778-87	112	(2)
From Canada, by Land The Journeys of Alexander Mackenzie, 1789 and 1793	114	(2)
From Hudson Bay to the Rockies The Inland Surveys of the Hudson's Bay Company, 1778-1812	116	(2)
Traders to the Pacific The Explorations of Fraser and Thompson, 1805-11	118	(2)
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST	120	(14)
California: Island or Peninsula? The Journeys of Father Kino, 1687-1702	120	(2)
From Asia to America The Voyages of Bering and the Russians, 1728-68	122	(2)
The Golden Gate Spanish Expansion into Upper California, 1769-76	124	(2)
Deserts, Mountains and Canyons Spanish Interior Explorations, 1774-76	126	(2)
North to Alaska Spanish Coastal Voyages, 1774-79	128	(2)
The Northwest Coast Revealed The Voyage of James Cook, 1778	130	(2)
Tracing the Mainland Coast Traders and Explorers, 1785-94	132	(2)
JEFFERSONIAN PATHFINDERS	134	(12)
The Forerunners of Lewis and Clark Missouri Explorations, 1792-97	134	(2)
Across the Continent The Journey of Lewis and Clark, 1805-06	136	(2)
The Scouts of the New Spain Spanish Trailblazers in the Old Southwest, 1786-1808	138	(2)
Pathfinders of the Old Southwest Trappers and Traders in Louisiana and Texas, 1792-1827	140	(2)
Vanguard of Empire The Astorians, 1810-12	142	(2)
The Great American Desert The Expeditions of Pike and Long, 1806-20	144	(2)
FUR TRADE AND EMPIRES	146	(12)
Intrigue beyond the Rockies Expeditions from Lisa's Fort Raymond, 1807-12	146	(2)
The Snake Country Brigades Canadians in the American West, 1818-30	148	(2)
All for the Seeds-kee-dee Trappers and Traders in the Central Rockies, 1822-26	150	(2)
Across Mountain and Desert The Expeditions of Jedediah Smith, 1826-31	152	(2)
Southwestern Adventures James Ohio Pattie, 1824-32	154	(2)
Spying Out an Emigrant Trail The Expeditions of Bonneville and Walker, 1832-34	156	(2)
THE GREAT RECONNAISSANCE	158	(12)
Beyond the Mississippi The Surveys of Lieutenant Fremont, 1842-48	158	(2)
The Soldier Archeologists Emory's Mexican War Reconnaissance, 1846	160	(2)
The Ancient Southwest Revealed The Surveys of Simpson and Sitgreaves, 1849-51	162	(2)
Grand Canyon Country The Surveys of Ives and Macomb, 1857-59	164	(2)
The Search for an Iron Trail The Great Railroad Surveys, 1853-55	166	(2)
A Topographic Romance Artist and Scientists of the Great Pacific Railroad Surveys	168	(2)
THE GREAT SURVEYS	170	(10)
Adventures on the 40th Parallel The Surveys of King and Wheeler, 1867-73	170	(2)
The Mysterious Colorado The Surveys of John Wesley Powell, 1869-78	172	(2)
Into the Grand Canyon Clarence E. Dutton and William H. Holmes, 1874-82	174	(2)
Yellowstone's Grand Drama Explorers of the Yellowstone, 1869-71	176	(2)
Colorado's Wonderlands Ferdinand Hayden's Survey, 1873-76	178	(2)
Part V: The Far North	180	(23)
TO THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT	182	(21)
Russia Meets America The Russians in Alaska, 1790-1863	182	(2)
The Land God Gave to Cain The Exploration of the Labrador Peninsula, 1816-43	184	(2)
The Bleak Canadian North Searches for the Northwest Passage, 1818-45	186	(2)
Across Canada's Plains and Rockies The Surveys of Palliser and Hind, 1857-59	188	(2)
Cold and Tragic Shores Searches for Franklin and the Northwest Passage, 1846-1905	190	(4)
Seward's Icebox US Alaska and the Yukon Gold Rush, 1866-98	194	(2)
The Crown of the Continent Explorations in the Arctic Archipelago, 1906-18	196	(2)
The Big Nail The Race to the Pole, 1853-1909	198	(5)
Bibliography	203	(7)
Index	210	(13)
Acknowledgements	223