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Your search for: western AND exploration


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Books on: western exploration

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Encyclopedia Articles on: western exploration

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  • Benton, Thomas Hart , U.S. Senator
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...speculation, westward removal of the Native Americans, and internal improvements. He advocated government support of Western exploration, with which he was intimately connected through the expeditions of John Charles Fremont , who married one of his...
     
  • Northwest Passage
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...found, encouraged exploration. Luke Fox and Thomas...short passage to the western sea. The British...achievements in northern exploration, and Captain James...however, pushed explorations on the Pacific coast...after the wars the explorations were made in the interests...chief motive in arctic exploration after the expeditions...
     
  • Minnesota , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Minneapolis. Duluth, at the western tip of Lake Superior, has...Ancient Inhabitants and European Exploration Archaeological evidence indicates...the Ordinance of 1787; the western part was joined to the United...White Earth rivers were the western boundary. A land boom grew...
     
  • Washington , State, United States
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...goldfinch. State flower, Western rhododendron. State tree, Western hemlock. Abbr., Wash...State Univ., at Pullman; Western Washington Univ., at Bellingham...Walla Walla. History European Exploration Washingtons early history is...
     
  • Wentworth, William Charles
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    WENTWORTH, WILLIAM CHARLES 1793? 1872, Australian statesman. His exploration (1813) of the Blue Mts. in Australia revealed vast pasturelands in the western part of the continent. In 1816 he went to Great Britain to study law; while...
     

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