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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)

The true story of Ernest Thompson Seton’s 2000-mile, six-month canoe journey across northern Canada in 1907 in search of caribou. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Ernest Thompson Seton
Illustrator(s): Ernest Thompson Seton

With Cortes the Conqueror (1917)

The story of the conquest of the cannibal kingdom of the Aztecs in 1521. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Virginia Watson
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

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)

Francis Parkman took a tour of the western United States in 1846 which included a buffalo hunt with a band of Sioux. He recorded his adventures in this, his first book, which met with critical success. He went on to write the history of the European ... View More

Author(s): Francis Parkman
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Conquest of Montezuma’s Empire (1928)

A condensed version of Prescott’s Conquest of Mexico, which was originally published by Andrew Lang in his The True Story Book. It tells the deathless story of how Hernando Cortez and a small band of Spanish adventurers conquered the evil kingd... View More

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

How the Old World Found the New (1929)

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Eunice Fuller Barnard
Lida Lee Tall
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Adventures of Johnny Appleseed (1930)

John Chapman—better known as Johnny Appleseed—had wilderness adventures that became larger-than-life legends. Pioneering west from Massachusetts after the American Revolution, John cleared land and planted orchards for the settlers who fo... View More

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)

Blending history and stories, this account of the American Indian has become a classic. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Untold Story of Exploration (1935)

This collection dissects post-independence Cameroon as a representative postcolonial junction. Read online at archive.org... View More

Author(s): Lowell Thomas
Illustrator(s): Kurt Wiese

Westward to the Pacific (1935)

A historical account that tells of the westward expansion of the United States, focusing on the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Author(s): Marion G. Clark
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

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.

The Earthly Paradise (1940)

A historical novel of the third voyage of Columbus.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Philip Gough

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