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Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West: Expeditions and Writers of the American Frontier

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In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West. Over three centuries later, the four Great Surveys in the United States were consolidated into the U.S. Geological Survey. The frontiers were the lands near or beyond the recognized international, national, regional, or tribal borders. Over the centuries, they hosted a complicated series of international explorations of lands inhabited by ...

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Overland Explorations of the Trans-Mississippi West: Expeditions and Writers of the American Frontier 2020, McFarland & Company, Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9781476678672

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