Exploration and empire: the explorer and the scientist in the winning of the American West

Frontmatter PART ONE Exploration and Imperialism: 1805-45 CHAPTER I Westward the Clash of Empires (page 3) CHAPTER II The Rediscovery of the Southwest (page 36) CHAPTER III Canada Moves South (page 79) CHAPTER IV The Mountain Men (page 105) CHAPTER V Something More Than Beaver (page 146) CHAPTER VI The Romantic Horizon (page 181) PART TWO The Great Reconnaissance and Manifest Destiny: 1845-60 CHAPTER VII When the Eagle Screamed: The Explorer as Diplomat in the Final Clash of Imperial Energies (page 231) CHAPTER VIII In Search of an Iron Trail (page 265) CHAPTER IX The Great Reconnaissance (page 303) PART THREE Exploration and the Great Surveys: 1860-1900 Chapter X The New Mountain Men: California's Geological Survey (page 355) Chapter XI The Army Way (page 390) Chapter XII The West of Clarence King (page 430) CHAPTER XIII The Last Stand of the Army Explorer (page 467) CHAPTER XIV F.W. Hayden: Gilded Age Explorer (page 489) CHAPTER XV John Wesley Powell: The Explorer as Reformer (page 530) CHAPTER XVI Epilogue: Beyond the Explorer's Frontier (page 577) A Note on the Sources (page 649) Index