Record details

• ISBN: 9780393240207
• ISBN: 0393240207
• ISBN: 9780393351156
• ISBN: 0393351157
• Physical Description: 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
• Edition: First edition.
• Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2014]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-259) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prologue: Western speculation: Henderson's Transylvania colony -- The Russians are coming. Soft gold: Aleuts and Russians in Alaska -- A war for independence: the San Diego uprising -- First contact: colonizing San Francisco -- Across the Colorado Plateau -- The continental divide. A forest transformed: the Hudson's Bay Company and Cumberland House -- The discovery: the Black Hills and the Lakota nation -- An invasion of malefactors: Osage Country -- Surrounded: the deep South interior -- Epilogue.

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United States > History > 18th century.
America > Colonization > History.
America > Discovery and exploration > Spanish.
Europe > Colonies > America.
Indians of North America > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
Europeans > America > History.
North America > Description and travel.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) > History > 18th century.
West (U.S.) > Discovery and exploration.
West (U.S.) > History > 18th century.
United States > History > 1775-1783, Revolution.
United States > History > 18th century.
HISTORY > United States > Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
Colonization.
Discoveries in geography.
Discoveries in geography > Spanish.
Europeans.
Indians of North America.
Travel.
America.
North America.
United States.
West United States.
United States > History > 1775-1783, Revolution.
America > Immigration and emigration > History.
America > Exploration.
Native Americans > North America > History.
Europeans > History.
North America > Description and travel.
West (U.S.) > Exploration.
West (U.S.) > History.

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History.