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Title Encounters with a distant land : exploration and the great Northwest / edited by Carlos A. Schwantes, with the assistance of Evelyne Pickett.

Imprint Moscow, Idaho : University of Idaho Press, 1994.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  979.5 En17 1994    ---  Available
Description xii, 220 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-216) and index.
Contents The exploration experience. Exploring the Great Northwest : personal observations and an overview / Carlos A. Schwantes -- Western exploration and its impact / William H. Goetzmann -- In search of the great bear : a historiography of Russian exploration in Alaska and California / Stephen Haycox -- Images of reality : early Spanish artists on the Pacific Coast / Iris H. W. Engstrand -- Peter Pond and the exploration of the Greater Northwest / James P. Ronda -- Language and exploration : the role of the Chinook Jargon / Richard Maxwell Brown -- Lewis and Clark : meeting the challenges of the trail / Gary E. Moulton -- Men of the Fremont expedition : their backgrounds and recruitment / Mary Lee Spence -- Isaac I. Stevens and the expeditionary artists of the northern west / David Nicandri.
Anthropological exploration in the Great Northwest, 1778-1889 and after / Douglas Cole -- Taxonomy for discovery / Martin Ridge -- Exploration history in print and in the field. Exploration history : a publisher's overview / Patricia Knapp -- Keeping it in perspective : getting exploration history into state and local journals / William L. Lang -- On the trail of Lewis and Clark today / Robert Carriker.
Subject Northwest, Pacific -- Discovery and exploration.
Added Author Schwantes, Carlos A., 1945-
Pickett, Evelyne.
ISBN 0893011657

 
    
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