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Into the Wilderness Dream : Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805
author
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Barclay, Donald A.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780874804430
ebook isbn13
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9780585131825
language
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English
subject
West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration, West (U.S.)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
publication date
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1994
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F592.I68 1994eb
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978/.01
subject
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West (U.S.)--Discovery and exploration, West (U.S.)--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
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Into the Wilderness Dream
Exploration Narratives of the American West 1500-1805
Edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, and Peter Wild
University of Utah Press Salt Lake City
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1994 by the University of Utah Press All rights reserved
Printed on acid-free paper
See page 387 for permissions.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Into the wilderness dream : exploration narratives of the American West, 1500-1805 / edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, and Peter Wild. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87480-443-4.ISBN 0-87480-444-2 (pbk.) 1. West (U.S.)Discovery and exploration. 2. West (U.S.) Description and travelEarly works to 1800. I. Barclay, Donald A., 1958- . II. Maguire, James H. III. Wild, Peter, 1940 F592.I68 1994 978'.01dc20 93-34275
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Contents
Acknowledgments
viii
Introduction
ix
Chapter 1: Two Views of the Mists
1
Chapter 2: Queen Calafia, Griffins, and the Naming of the Golden State (1500)
8
Chapter 3: A Dream Revised: The New World Odyssey of Cabeza de Vaca (1528)
15
Chapter 4: A Violent Pursuit of the Dream: The Gentleman of Elvas's Account of the de Soto Expedition (1539)
33
Chapter 5: Exploring the Myth: Fray Marcos de Niza's Discovery of a City of Cbola (1539)
45
Chapter 6: Deceived by the Dream: Pedro de Castaeda's Long Look Back at the Coronado Expedition (1540)
55
Chapter 7: Sir Francis Drake and the Brass Plate (1579)
78
Chapter 8: Settling into the Dream: The Pioneer Epic of Gaspar Castao de Sosa (1590)
95
Chapter 9: Rey of the Wild Frontier: Hernn Gallegos's Narrative of the Chamuscado-Rodrguez Expedition (1591)
125
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Chapter 10: Sunken Ships and Winged Corrals: The Juan de Oate Expedition to New Mexico (1598)
136
Chapter 11: The Dream in Verse: Gaspar Prez de Villagra's New World Epic (1610)
147
Chapter 12: The Basic Stuff of the West: Pierre Esprit Radisson (1651)
165
Chapter 13: The Self as Myth: Father Louis Hennepin (1675)
177
Chapter 14: Retaking the Dream: Diego Vargas Zapata y Lujn Ponce de Len and the Reconquest of New Mexico (1695)
186
Chapter 15: Defending the Dream: The Diary of Juan Mateo Manje (1697)
196
Chapter 16: Embroidering the Dream: The Fabulous Tale of Mathieu Sagean (1701)
207
Chapter 17: How Miracles Prove Dreams: Fray Franciso de Cliz's Account of the Alarcn Expedition to Texas (1718)
216
Chapter 18: Chasing a Nightmare into the Dream: The Valverde Campaign (1719)
223
Chapter 19: The Stuff of Dreams: Pierre Gaultier de La Vrendrye (1730)
235
Chapter 20: Sailing into the Northern Mists: Georg Wilhelm Steller (1741)
246
Chapter 21: Rescued from the Dream: Miguel Costanso and the 1769 Expedition by Sea to San Diego
256
Chapter 22: Mixing Fact and Fiction: Jonathan Carver (1769)
263
Chapter 23: Searching for Accounts of the Search: Father Juan Crespi and the 1774 Voyage of the Santiago
271
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Chapter 24: Mystery Man of the Far North: Peter Pond (1775)
277
Chapter 25: Crossing the Desert to the Promised Land: Pedro Font's Diary of the Second Anza Expedition (1776)
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