Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents: Mapping the World through Primary Documents

by Jay H. Buckley, Jeffery D. Nokes

Overview

This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document's relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective.

This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers' historical literacy by modeling historians' methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781610697323
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/28/2016
Series:	Mapping the World through Primary Documents
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	321
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Jay H. Buckley, PhD, is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.

Jeffery D. Nokes, PhD, is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT.