Bibliograph

Type

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Explorers and their quest for North America, Philip J. Potter

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-299) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Explorers and their quest for North America

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1038726618

Responsibility statement

Philip J. Potter

Table Of Contents

Christopher Columbus : discoverer of the New World -- John Cabot : first European to reach and explore the North American mainland -- Hernan Cortes : conqueror of Mexico -- Jacques Cartier : founder of New France -- Hernando de Soto : explorer of American South-east and discoverer of the Mississippi River -- Francisco Coronado : laid the foundation for for the Spanish colonization of the American South-west -- Samuel de Champlain : father of French Canada -- Captain John Smith : mercenary soldier, governor of the Jamestown Colony and explorer of the American coastline -- Henry Hudson : explorer of the Hudson River Valley and Canadian Arctic -- Robert Cavelier de La Salle : explorer of the Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley -- Vitus Bering : discoverer and explorer of the coastline of Alaska -- Daniel Boone : frontiersman and pioneer in the Ohio Valley -- Sir Alexander Mackenzie : pathfinder of Western Canada -- Meriwether Lewis : captain of the Corps of Discovery expedition across the Louisiana Purchase

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