High Country Empire: The High Plains and Rockies

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U 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
INDEX
379

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
Index 353
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