Into the wilderness dream: exploration narratives of the American West, 1500-1805
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Veröffentlicht: Salt Lake City University of Utah Press c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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)
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