Trailmaker

Eine Bezeichnung für solche Waldläufer im nördlichen Amerika, die als Wegbereiter der Kolonisation galten, vergleichbar dem pioneer und frontiersman.

• Paul Leland Haworth [1876-1936]
  Trail Makers of the Northwest.
  VIII, 277 S., 25 Tafeln. Bibliogr. S. 275-277 New York 1921: Harcourt, Brace. Online, Inhalt u.a.:
  • The Beaver and his wonderful works and how the demand for his fur led to Great Discoveries
  • The Discovery of Hudson Bay and the Great Lakes
  • Pierre Radisson and how his explorations led to the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company
  • Samuel Hearne and his search for a copper mine
  • M. De la Verendrye and his search for the western sea
  • How Mackenzie reached the Arctic … reached the Pacific
  • The fur-trading adventures of Alexander Henry
  • Methods of travel in the fur land
  • How the Red River Half-Breeds hunted the buffaloes
  • Further Sidelights of Indian Life
  • The tragic voyages of Sir John Franklin
  • Later Travelers and Explorers in the Canadian Northwest
  • How Amundsen made the Northwest Passage
  • The Coming of the Settlers
  • The Brotherhood of Trappers and Prospectors of To-day
• John Bach McMaster
  The Trail Makers: A Library of History and Exploration.
  10 Bände. New York: A. S. Barnes
  • 1 1905 Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier [1840-1914]
    The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca and his companions from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536; tr. from his own narrative by Fanny Bandelier, together with the report of Father Marcos of Nizza and a letter from the viceroy Mendoza
    XXII, 230 S. 2 Faksim. Faltkarte. Online . Mendoza, Antonio de, um 1492-1552; Nizza, Marco da, um 1510-1570.
  • 2 1904 History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis & Clark to the sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky mountains and down the river Columbia to the Pacific ocean, performed during the years 1804-5-6, by order of the government of the United States.
    A complete reprint of the Biddle ed. of 1814, to which all the members of the expedition contributed, with an account of the Louisiana purchase. 3 Bände. Online
    Meriwether Lewis [1774-1809], William Clark [1770-1838], Patrick Gass [1771-1870]
  • 3 1904 George Parker Winship [1871-1952]
    The journey of Coronado : 1540-1542 ; from the City of Mexico to the Grand Canon of the Colorado and the Buffalo Plains of Texas, Kansas, and Nebraska.
    XXXIV, 251 S. Ill. Online
    • Itinerary of the Coronado expeditions, 1527-1547
    • Translations of the narrative of Castañeda,
    • … the letter from Mendoza to the King, April 17, 1540
    • … the letter from Coronado to Mendoza, August 3, 1540
    • … the Traslado de las nuevas
    • … the Relacion del suceso
    • … a letter from Coronado to the King, October 20, 1541
    • … the narrative of Jaramillo [Juan, † um 1550]
    • … the report of Hernando de Alvarado [† um/nach 1540]
    • Testimony concerning those who went on the expedition with Francisco Vasquez Coronado [1510–1554]
  • 4 1906 Edward Gaylord Bourne, Annie Nettleton Bourne
    The voyages and explorations of Samuel de Champlain (1604-1616)
    (=Les voyages de la Novvelle France occidentale, dicte Canada, Paris, 1632) Annie Nettleton Bourne (Übersetzung), together with the voyage of 1603, reprinted from Purchas his pilgrimes; 2 Bände. XL, 254 Seiten Karten. Online
  • 5 1905 Isaac Joslin Cox
    The journeys of Réné Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle[1643-1687] : as related by his faithful lieutenant, Henri de Tonty [1649/1650-1704] [and others] 2 Bände. 2: VI, 259 S. Ill., Karten Online
  • 6 1903 Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir [1763-1820], Robert Waite (Einführung)
    Voyages from Montreal through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 : with an account of the rise and state of the fur trade 2 Bände. 2: VIII, 360 Seiten Karten. Online
  • 7 1904 Gen. Sir William Francis Butler [1838-1910]
    The wild Northland : being the story of a winter journey, with dog, across northern North America.
    XX, 360 S. Karten. Online
  • 8 1903 Daniel Williams Harmon [1778-1843], W. L. Grant (Einführung)
    A journal of voyages and travels in the interior of North America : being the 47th and 58th degrees of N. Lat., extending from Montreal nearly to the Pacific, a distance of about 5,000 miles
    Including an account of the principal occurrences during a residence og nineteen years in different parts of the country. XXIII, 382 S. Online
  • 9 1904 History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis & Clark to the sources of Missouri, thence across in the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean ; performed during the years 1804-5-6, by order of the Government of the United States ; A complete reprint of the Biddle ed. of 1814, to which all the members of the expedition contributed, with an account of the Louisiana purchase; and notes upon the route
    3 Bände. 3: XVII, 382 S. Ill. Karten Online
  • 10 1904 Colden, Cadwallader [1688-1776]
    The history of the five Indian nations of Canada which are dependent on the Province of New York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world
    2 Bände. 2:III, 387 S. Ill. Karten. Online