Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration - Couverture souple

Nichols, Roger L.; Halley, Patrick L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806127244 ISBN 13 : 9780806127248

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1995

Synopsis

Major Stephen H. Long of the United States Army was the most important government-sponsored explorer in the decade after the War of 1812. He led three major and several minor expeditions up the Mississippi, Missouri, and Arkansas rivers and the Red River of the north, as well as exploring the central and southern Plains, the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, and the Great Lakes. His campanions included engineers, cartographers, Naturalists, ethnologists, and artists, and they gathered a wealth of scientific, military, and artistic data about the interior of North America. For years Long's expeditions have been overlooked or misunderstood; here for the first time they are placed in the context of American scientific development.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of American Indians in U.S. History and editor of The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Edition.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806127244
• ISBN 13: 9780806127248
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
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• Personne responsable: non disponible