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American journeys : eyewitness accounts of early American exploration and settlement : a digital library and learning center.

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Book
Database & Article Index
Website/Database
Contributor:
Wisconsin Historical Society.
National History Day (Organization)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Explorers.
History.
Discoveries in geography.
America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
America.
North America.
United States.
United States--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
North America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
North America--Description and travel.
Explorers--North America--History.
Genre:
Sources.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
Place of Publication:
[Madison, WI] : Wisconsin Historical Society, 2003-
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Summary:
"Contains more than 18,000 pages of eyewitness accounts of North American exploration, from the sagas of Vikings in Canada in AD1000 to the diaries of mountain men in the Rockies 800 years later. Read the words of explorers, Indians, missionaries, traders and settlers as they lived through the founding moments of American history. View, search, print, or download more than 150 rare books, original manuscripts, and classic travel narratives from the library and archives of the Wisconsin Historical Society"--Home page.
Notes:
Title from Web page (viewed on November 14, 2005).
Collaborative project of the Wisconsin Historical Society and National History Day.
OCLC:
53451634

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