The Course of Empire

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1998 - 647 páginas

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto's monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

 

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The Children of the Sun
3
The Spanish Entrances
37
The Spectrum of Knowledge
51
Early Ideas of North America
56
The Northwestern Mystery
76
The Iron Men
83
The West to the 1670s
101
The Mississippi
116
The Kentucky Merchant
272
Escalantes Journey
295
Equinoctial Tide
315
The Northwest Coast
325
The Canadian West 1790s
352
The Santa Fe Trail
361
The Gates of the Continent 380381
380
A More Perfect Union
383

Hudson Bay Region
125
The Heartland
131
Converging Frontiers
159
The Heartland
176
The World Turned Upside Down
195
The Canoe Route Lake Superior
197
Vérendryes Progress
204
The Armed Frontier
221
TwelveYear Armistice
231
Jonathan Carvers North America
249
Prime Meridian
263
Westward the Course of Empire
435
Fur Company Posts
453
The Route of Lewis and Clark 472473
472
The Passage to India
487
The Dilemma of Lewis and Clark 500501
500
The Race to the Pacific 532533
533
Comparative Dates
557
Notes
561
Bibliography Annotation and Minutiae
633
Index
637
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Bernard DeVoto (1897-1955), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, was a renowned scholar-historian of the American West and one of the country's greatest men of letters.

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