Columbus and Other Heroes of American Discovery (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Columbus and Other Heroes of American Discovery The present volume is intended to give a general idea of the progress of xploration in the districts now forming Canada and the United States, with the general advance of the white man westwards. The chief authorities consulted in the preparation of the Heroes of the Exodus to the West were the reports to their superiors of the early Jesuit missionaries George Bancroft's History of the United States Bryant's Popular History of the United States; and Bancroft's Native Races of the Pacific. But reference has also been made to the original works of all the great travelers in the districts under notice while much valuable geographical information has been culled from the Journals of the learned Societies both of England and America, and from Réclus's Geographie Univers'elle. N. D'anvers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.