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Exploration - America Genre
Books in the Exploration - America genre:
The Story of Geographical Discovery (1895)
This survey of exploration and discovery was originally published in 1895. Read the 1915 edition online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Joseph Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Various
First Across the Continent (1901)
The first popular account of the Lewis and Clark expedition from 1804 to 1806.
Author(s):
Noah Brooks
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Seton Thompson
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The Arctic Prairies (1912)
Author(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s):
Ernest Thompson Seton
Daniel Boone: Wilderness Scout (1922)
A biography of Daniel Boone who opened the Kentucky wilderness
Author(s):
Stewart Edward White
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Oregon Trail Sketches of Prairie and Rocky-Mountain Life (1925)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
N. C. Wyeth
The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire (1928)
Author(s):
William Hickling Prescott
Minnie Wright
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Early Candlelight (1929)
A novel of Minnesota and Fort Snelling in the early days of the Northwest Territory.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Maud Hart Lovelace
Illustrator(s):
T. S. Hunner
The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)
Author(s):
Henry Chapin
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Daniel Boone (1931)
A brief biography of the pioneering backwoodsman.
Author(s):
Unknown
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Oregon Trail (1931)
Francis Parkman took a tour of the West before settling down to write his histories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Book of Indians (1935)
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
Lucille Webster Holling
Their Weight in Wildcats (1936)
A collection of tales about the heroes of the American frontier taken from original sources, including Mike Fink, Daniel Boone and John Henry.
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Over the Blue Wall (1937)
A history of the lands west of the Appalachians to the Mississippi, from Ponce de Leon to Jefferson.
Author(s):
Etta Lane Matthews
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The Voyages of Jacques Cartier (1937)
A French explorer discovers Canada.
Author(s):
Esther Averill
Illustrator(s):
Feodor Rojankovsky
The Log of Christopher Columbus’ First Voyage to America in the Year 1492 (1938)
An adaptation of Columbus’ description of his first voyage to America.
Author(s):
Margaret Wise Brown
Bartolomé de las Casas
Illustrator(s):
John O’Hara Cosgrave, II
The Earthly Paradise (1940)
A historical novel of the third voyage of Columbus.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Philip Gough
To the Indies (1940)
A historical novel of Columbus’ third voyage.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Doris Hauman
George Hauman
Tree in the Trail (1942)
The story of a cottonwood tree leads to the history of the Santa Fe Trail.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Holling C. Holling
Illustrator(s):
Holling C. Holling
The Oregon Trail (1943)
Author(s):
Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s):
Maynard Dixon
My First Geography of the Pacific (1944)
An illustrated geography of the Pacific region, likely issued to help children understand the War in the Pacific.
Author(s):
Arensa Sondergaard
Illustrator(s):
Cornelius Hugh De Witt