Record details

• ISBN: 0912627131
• ISBN: 9780912627137
• Physical Description: 128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
• Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Division of Publications, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, 1982.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The lure of the West / by Richard A. Bartlett -- Explorer, mountain man, and scientist / by William H. Goetzmann -- Jeffersonian pathfinders -- The mountain man as explorer -- In search of exotic America -- By land and by sea -- The great post-Civil War surveys -- The pictorial record -- The artists -- The mapmakers -- The photographers.

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Subject:

West (U.S.) > Description and travel.
Explorers > West (U.S.) > Biography.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
Discoveries in geography.
Explorers.
Travel.
United States, West.

Genre:

Biography.

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