“william h goetzmann”

First published in 1959, this book tells the story of the U.S. Army's role in the winning of the American West.... More

In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America's leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and... More

Presenting the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas, focusing on the figures that had a profound influence on the exploration of new worlds. Featuring in-text citations, sidebars, comprehension questions, and complete backmatter, this series will enable students to understand the stages o... More

Columbus left Spain thinking he could reach China by sailing west. Instead, he found the New World.... More

In 1531, Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire that ruled Peru, establishing Spanish rule in South America.... More

Coronado and his troupe spent three years wandering in the American Southwest in search of the seven cities built of gold--discovering only the beauties of the landscape.... More

Routes of explores Ponce de Leon, Henry Hudson, Hernando de Soto, Lewis and Clark, and dozens more are charted, showing the sites of encounters with native inhabitants or rival colonial powers, shipwrecks and uprisings, settlements and trading posts, and the death or disappearance of expeditions.... More