Francisco Coronado

by Karen Price-Hossell

Published 1 September 2002
A biography of the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer who searched for cities of gold in parts of the American Southwest, but found only Indian villages.

John C. Fremont

by Karen Price-Hossell

Published 1 August 2002
Gives an account of the life of John C. FreĢmont, a surveyor, mapmaker, and explorer who traveled through the western United States in the middle of the nineteenth century.