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John Cabot (Italian: Giovanni Caboto [dʒoˈvanni kaˈbɔːto]; c. 1450 – c. 1499) [2] was an Italian [2] [3] navigator and explorer.His 1497 voyage to the coast of North America under the commission of Henry VII, King of England is the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century.
The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell is a classic [1] [2] of American exploration literature. It is about the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 which was the first trip down the Colorado River by boat, including the first trip through the Grand Canyon .
John Colter (c.1770–1775 – May 7, 1812 or November 22, 1813) was a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804–1806). Though party to one of the more famous expeditions in history, Colter is best remembered for explorations he made during the winter of 1807–1808, when he became the first known person of European descent to enter the region which later became Yellowstone National ...
John Navarre Macomb, Junior (1811–1889) was a United States Army topographical engineer and explorer of the Colorado River. Captain Macomb led the 1859 San Juan Exploring Expedition, whose purpose was to find a military supply route from Santa Fe, New Mexico , to Utah and to map previously unexplored areas along the route.
An explorer of the American West at an early age, he was a member of an expedition that discovered the last unknown river in the United States, the Escalante River and the previously undiscovered Henry Mountains. [2] From 1871 to 1873, he was artist and assistant topographer with Major Powell's second expedition down the Colorado River.
Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West is a book by William H. Goetzmann about the exploration of the American West. [1] It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1967.
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The Explorer is a 1964 novel by American author Frances Parkinson Keyes. Set in Virginia 1953, [ 1 ] the novel was originally released by McGraw-Hill Book Company , there have since been several reprints of her book, [ 2 ] with the latest release in paperback format in June 1994 by Hodder General Publishing Division.