Jared Orsi

Citizen Explorer

The Life of Zebulon Pike

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Life and times biography of a key explorer of the US West.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 165mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780199768721
• ISBN-10: 0199768722
• Artikelnr.: 36843553

Autorenporträt

Associate Professor of History, Colorado State University. Author of Hazardous Metropolis: Flooding and Urban Ecology in Los Angeles.

Inhaltsangabe

* Prologue Coming of Age in the Revolution
* Ch 1 "The Happiness of a Free and Independent People": A Family and a
Nation Seek Liberty, 1635-1794
* Ch 2 The Bargain of Independence, 1794-1805
* Ch 3 "A Barrier to Their Trade": Establishing Americans in the Upper
Mississippi Country, 1805-1806
* Ch 4 "Young Warriors" of the "Great American Father": Crossing the
Plains, July- November 1806
* Ch 5 "Frozen Lads": Into The Rockies, November 1806-February 1807
* Ch 6 A Comfortable Captivity: Traveling through New Spain,
February-July 1807
* Ch 7 Citizen Soldier: Pike's Final Search for Independence, 1807-1813
* Epilogue From "Frozen Lads" to "Purple Mountain Majesties": Pike's
West and American Nationalism, 1813-1893
* Notes
* Bibliography