Record details

• ISBN: 0195169220
• ISBN: 9780195169225
• Physical Description: pages cm
• Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Oxford University Press, [2003]
• Copyright: ©2003

Content descriptions

General Note:

Biographies selected from the American national biography.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Alvar Nu~nez Cabeza de Vaca -- John Smith -- David Pietersen de Vries -- Francesco Giuseppe Bressani -- Hannah Duston -- Sir Alexander Cuming -- Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey -- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable -- Samuel Mason -- John Ledyard -- Simon Kenton -- George Crowninshield, Jr. -- Anne Newport Royall -- John Colter -- Giacomo Constantino Beltrami -- Marie Dorion -- Frances Wright -- George Catlin -- Samuel Patch -- David Douglas -- John August Sutter -- Jacob Netsvetov -- James Bridger -- Eliza Hart Spalding -- John Wise -- Albert Pike -- Grizzly Adams -- Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa -- John Charles Fremont -- Elisha Kent Kane -- Edward Zane -- Carroll Judson -- William Walker -- California Joe -- John Morrissey -- Mary Ann Brown Patten -- Buffalo Jones -- Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclercq -- Joy Salm-Salm -- Joshua Slocum -- Railroad Bill -- Ishi -- David Fagen -- Belle Livingstone -- Hiram Bingham -- Duncan Hines -- Louise Arner Boyd -- Annette Kellerman -- Duke Paoa Kahanamoku -- Merian Coldwell Cooper -- Hubert F. Julian -- Richard Halliburton.

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Subject:

Adventure and adventurers > United States > Biography.
Explorers > United States > Biography.
United States > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.