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Claiming the American wilderness : international rivalry in the trans-Mississippi West, 1528-1803 / Hunt Janin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Janin, Hunt, 1940- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--First contact with Europeans--West (U.S.).
- Indians of North America.
- Explorers--West (U.S.)--History.
- Explorers.
- Pioneers--West (U.S.)--History.
- Pioneers.
- Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--History.
- West (U.S.)--History--To 1848.
- West (U.S.).
- West (U.S.)--International status--History.
- West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration.
- United States--Territorial expansion--History.
- United States.
- United States--Foreign relations--Europe.
- Europe--Foreign relations--United States.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, [2006]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Beginning with the 1528 shipwreck of Spanish conquistador Cabeza de Vaca and ending with the negotiation of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, this volume presents a broadly based general survey of the events that took place in the Trans-Mississippi West during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Indians : coping with the Europeans and Americans
- The Spaniards : children of the sun
- The French : lords of rivers and lakes
- The British : from Rupert's Land to the Pacific
- The Russians : "soft gold"-the richest fur in the world
- The Americans : to all points West
- Epilogue : the six rivals, a summing-up
- Selected chronology, 1492-1804
- The Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Mirrors of the trans-Mississippi West : George Catlin and Karl Bodmer
- The coming of the horse
- Firearms on the early frontiers
- Protecting northern New Spain from the Apaches
- A Spanish requerimiento
- The Treaty of San Ildefonso
- Coureurs de bois and voyageurs: the men and their boats.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-0879-2
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