ENCOUNTERING NORTH AMERICA: Profiles of Frontiersmen, 1650-1820

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Details how European settlers learned of the vast North American continent through the accounts of men who individually or in groups trekked into the wilderness. Presents those whose far-reaching explorations opened the continent to further settlements and trade routes. One was torn between the French and British, while another between Indigenous and white societies. One was Spanish. One was an administrator, a force for order in an unsettled world. Two were certainly homicidal. Each narrative is supported by discursive commentary on the primary source materials available. Contains 20 illustrations.