...C.C.G. The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836, A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People . By Barker Eugene C. . ( Second edition; Austin : The Texas State Historical Association , 1949 . Pp. xix , 477 . $10.00 . Illustrations, maps...

...Arthur P. Whitaker The Persistence of the Westward Movement and Other Essays . By Parish John Carl . With an Introduction by Clark Dan Elbert . ( Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1943 . Pp. xxii , 187 , $2.00 .) Copyright 1945 by Duke University...

...Isaac Joslin Cox The Spanish-American Frontier: 1783-1795. The Westward, Movement and the Spanish Retreat in the Mississippi Valley . By Whitaker Arthur Preston . ( Boston and New York : Houghton Mifflin Company , 1927 . Pp. xiii , 255 . Maps.) Copyright 1928 by Duke University...

.... Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836. A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People . By Barker Eugene C. . ( Nashville and Dallas : Cokesbury Press , 1925 . Pp. 551 .) ...

...Robert H. Fuson Was L ’Anse aux Meadows really Vinland? This book is required reading for anyone at all interested in the answer to that intriguing question. Westward to Vinland is more than an archaeological report. It offers an excellent account of the Eskimos and Indians of northeastern...

... to attempt a westward voyage to the fabled Spice Islands was made while serving in the Indian Ocean area. Magellan may have been in correspondence at that time with a lifelong friend, Francisco Serrão. By 1511 Serrão had already reached these sought-after islands. Whatever the factors involved...

... study Miera y Pacheco: A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico (2013). His interlocutor, Kessell explains in the preface to Whither the Waters , asked whether Miera y Pacheco's famous 1778 cartographic portrayal of the westward-bound Domínguez-Escalante expedition had shaped later...

... addressed are the movement of the coffee frontier westward through the state; the arrival and dispersion of more than two million workers from abroad; and plantation labor relations. The findings, while not uncritical of Paulista leaders, cast immigrant labor arrangements in a better light than usual...

... exposition of where the Tordesillas line was supposed to be. The line, as represented in the maps of different textbooks, tends to wander about arbitrarily, eastwards and westwards, reflecting the uncertainties or even the biases of different authors. Of the three maps showing the line, the first...

..., westward migration, canals, schools, and the establishment of new farms are the more important subjects discussed. Basically uncritical of the young republic, Cabrera de Nevares saw in it the nucleus of a future empire. José de Onís has provided a valuable introduction with a short biography...

..., continued as a mistake when they wandered deep inland in following a river, then may have become a conscious turn westward to seek the Pacific when evidence of cotton and corn in the interior, suggesting settled farming cultures, was made evident. Adorno and Pautz take a frankly constructivist view...

... the guns used in America from the beginning of European settlement through the westward advance of the frontier, with major emphasis on arms in the West after 1800. The first three chapters deal mainly with firearms in relation to Indian trade and trapping, and the last three are concerned with military...

... every tidbit of information on the Alamo that it is possible to find, and has sifted his material with taste. The result is a straightforward account that will have to be consulted by any student of United States-Mexico relations or by any student interested in the westward expansion. ...

... in seven different countries. Holmes examines almost every aspect of Gayoso’s administrative problems, most of which seem to have involved the westward-expanding United States and the English-speaking residents of Spain’s territory along the Mississippi. The social life of the province, planning...

... how they relate to the steady westward progress of maritime and cartographic knowledge. Some of the early maps in fact show very little knowledge of the Atlantic, hut by 1339, for instance, the Canaries appear for the first time. One of the five chapters is devoted to the Viking settlements...

... is a good book for you to read. It contains fifteen first-hand accounts of whites captured by the Indians, the months or years of cruel treatment, and the final much desired escape. Accounts contained within the book cover the period of white westward movement from 1750 to 1870 and involve Indians from...

... individual in such a short time span. Hardy eschewed Mexico City for areas of greater potential for economic exploitation. From the capital, he traveled westward to Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, and Sonora. This was followed by a visit to Baja California, a cruise to the head of the gulf and an attempt...

... of Christendom several hundred miles westward and northward, his apostolate constitutes one of the greatest successes in the annals of world missions. Bolton searched in Mexico, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, and Spain for pertinent materials; and, to make his account more realistic, he followed...

... Ridge Mountains, where they built a fort and then returned to Santa Elena. The journey took slightly more than three months. A second expedition led by Pardo left Santa Elena in 1567. The soldiers crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains and moved westward, reaching the upper Tennessee River valley south...

... in 1988 to develop intellectual and cultural activities for the Quincentenary of Columbus’ westward voyage across the Atlantic. Its aim was to foster a sense of solidarity and common purpose among the peoples of Spain, Portugal, and the nations of the Americas, in part through an ambitious publication...