From early mountain men searching for routes through the Rockies to West Point soldier-engineers conducting topographical expeditions, the exploration of the Am

This book, first published in 1933, discusses the exploration of the western area of what became the United States.

The report of the first United States expedition to the Southwest, here in the handsome first British edition. One of the most important American travel books,

Readers navigate this fact-filled book as it takes them through the history of North American discovery and exploration, detailing all of the successes, hardshi