High Country Empire: The High Plains and RockiesU of Nebraska Press, 1. jan. 1965 - 358 strani "The first adequate history of the High Country Empire I have ever found. . . . This is vivid, vigorous history, rich with incident, solid with research, firm with informed opinion. . . . On total score this is an outstanding book."--Hal Borland, Saturday Review. "It will make excellent supplementary reading for students of the American West, complementing the work of Bernard De Voto and Carl F. Kraenzel."--Walter Prescott Webb, New York Times Book Review. "Mr. Athearn is not only a good historian, he is an exceptionally able writer. His sparkling narrative--filled with quotable anecdotes and general perceptive insights--is a delight to read."--Gene M. Gressley, Library Journal. "This is a complex, many-sided story, and the author . . . somehow manages to hold it down to reasonable length and at the same time retain much of the variety and color inherent in his theme."--Oscar Lewis, New York Herald Tribune Book Review. "A very great mass of scholarly knowledge expands, illuminates, and makes all alive within the major framework, and Dr. Athearn writes with power and charm and is never pedestrian or pedantic."--San Francisco Chronicle. "Professor Athearn's depth of historical knowledge and perspective ties the story of this high country empire together so that it is socially and economically meaningful and at the same time entertaining."--Harlan Trott, Christian Science Monitor. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 12 |
VESPUCCIS NEW CONTINENT IRONICALLY | 51 |
BALBOAS SOUTH SEA PROMISES A MYRIAD | 67 |
CORTÉS SEEKS THE ISLES OF IND INCLUDING | 77 |
CORTÉS SUFFERS MANY ORDEALS IN PURSUIT | 93 |
THE ISLAND CRAZE Leads to Baja | 99 |
THE NAMING OF CALIFORNIA REFLECTS | 121 |
ULLOA PROBes the Sea of CoRTÉS | 133 |
ASCENSIÓN FUELS THE REKINDLED ISLAND | 269 |
THE CALIFORNIA ISLAND MYTH IS ACCEPTED | 277 |
KINO CHALLENGES THE ISLAND FALLACY | 295 |
IS | 303 |
SOUTH SEA BUBBLES DONT BURST EASILY | 309 |
FOOTNOTES | 335 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 355 |
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VICEROY MENDOZAS MEN CAST DOUBT | 145 |
ULLOA AND CABRILLO SEEK STRAITS | 153 |
THE ISLEOFCALIFORNIA MYTH GOES INTO | 165 |
PART II | 178 |
BRITONS PLOT TO RAID THE PACIFIC | 205 |
THE SPANISH TAKE ALARM FROM THE BRITISH | 213 |
THE SPANISH THINK DRAKES NEW ALBION | 231 |
SPAIN CONTRIVES TO KEEP FOREIGNERS | 241 |
VIZCAÍNO SAILS TO SOLVE THE SECRETS | 251 |
NEW MEXICO EXPLORERS DISCOVER | 259 |
THE LAND LIES OPEN | 1 |
VANGUARDS OF SETTLEMENT | 67 |
THE GREAT INVASION | |
Fading Frontiers 257 | |
Uncle Sams West 278 | |
Empire of Dust 297 | 11 |
A Land in Transition 318 | |
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