This text covers; African Americans in the western fur trade; The artist as predator: John James Audubon; The discovery of South Pass; How Alexander Mackenzie inspired the Lewis and Clark Expedition; Jack London and the romance of Alaska; Thomas Jefferson's study of North American geography; The transcontinental railroad surveys of the 1850s.
- ISBN10 0816052638
- ISBN13 9780816052639
- Publish Date 1 February 2005
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Facts On File Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English