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Into the wilderness dream : exploration narratives of the American West, 1500-1805

Author: Donald A Barclay; James H Maguire; Peter Wild
Publisher: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1994.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A collection of writings which emphasize the dreams about the New World that combined with other factors to lead Europeans swarming over a continent.
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Genre/Form: Early works to 1800
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Into the wilderness dream.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1994
(OCoLC)609405290
Online version:
Into the wilderness dream.
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c1994
(OCoLC)622673040
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Donald A Barclay; James H Maguire; Peter Wild
ISBN: 0874804434 9780874804430 0874804442 9780874804447
OCLC Number: 29221605
Description: xvii, 397 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Ch. 1. Two Views of the Mists --
Ch. 2. Queen Calafia, Griffins, and the Naming of the Golden State (1500) --
Ch. 3. A Dream Revised: The New World Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca (1528) --
Ch. 4. A Violent Pursuit of the Dream: The Gentleman of Elvas's Account of the de Soto Expedition (1539) --
Ch. 5. Exploring the Myth: Fray Marcos de Niza's Discovery of a City of Cibola (1539) --
Ch. 6. Deceived by the Dream: Pedro de Castaneda's Long Look Back at the Coronado Expedition (1540) --
Ch. 7. Sir Francis Drake and the Brass Plate (1579) --
Ch. 8. Settling into the Dream: The Pioneer Epic of Gaspar Castano de Sosa (1590) --
Ch. 9. Rey of the Wild Frontier: Hernan Gallegos's Narrative of the Chamuscado-Rodriguez Expedition (1591) --
Ch. 10. Sunken Ships and Winged Corrals: The Juan de Onate Expedition to New Mexico (1598) --
Ch. 11. The Dream in Verse: Gaspar Perez de Villagra's New World Epic (1610) --
Ch. 12. The Basic Stuff of the West: Pierre Esprit Radisson (1651). Ch. 13. The Self as Myth: Father Louis Hennepin (1675) --
Ch. 14. Retaking the Dream: Diego Vargas Zapata y Lujan Ponce de Leon and the Reconquest of New Mexico (1695) --
Ch. 15. Defending the Dream: The Diary of Juan Mateo Manje (1697) --
Ch. 16. Embroidering the Dream: The Fabulous Tale of Mathieu Sagean (1701) --
Ch. 17. How Miracles Prove Dreams: Fray Francisco de Celiz's Account of the Alarcon Expedition to Texas (1718) --
Ch. 18. Chasing a Nightmare into the Dream: The Valverde Campaign (1719) --
Ch. 19. The Stuff of Dreams: Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye (1730) --
Ch. 20. Sailing into the Northern Mists: Georg Wilhelm Steller (1741) --
Ch. 21. Rescued from the Dream: Miguel Costanso and the 1769 Expedition by Sea to San Diego --
Ch. 22. Mixing Fact and Fiction: Jonathan Carver (1769) --
Ch. 23. Searching for Accounts of the Search: Father Juan Crespi and the 1774 Voyage of the Santiago --
Ch. 24. Mystery Man of the Far North: Peter Pond (1775). Ch. 25. Crossing the Desert to the Promised Land: Pedro Font's Diary of the Second Anza Expedition (1776) --
Ch. 26. Searching for a Shortcut: Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante's Journal of the Dominguez-Escalante Expedition (1776) --
Ch. 27. Don Quixote in the Wilderness: John Ledyard (1779) --
Ch. 28. Cartographer of the Human Heart: David Thompson (1784) --
Ch. 29. "An Irreparable Loss": The Diaries of Frances Hornby Barkley (1787) --
Ch. 30. The Roads to Santa Fe: Pedro Vial and Francisco Amangual (1792) --
Ch. 31. The Mists Drawn Back: Alexander Mackenzie (1793) --
Ch. 32. "Thus Ended a Very Unpleasant Affair, with the Ruin of a Pretty Face": Alexander Henry (1799) --
Ch. 33. "The Most Horrid Sight . . . That Ever my Eyes Witnessed": John R. Jewitt (1803).
Responsibility: edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, and Peter Wild.

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A collection of writings which emphasize the dreams about the New World that combined with other factors to lead Europeans swarming over a continent.

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