Blue, Rose.

Exploring the Pacific Northwest / Pacific Northwest Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden. - Chicago : Raintree, c2003. - 64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm. - Exploring the Americas . - Blue, Rose. Exploring the Americas. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) and index.

Prologue: who found it? -- Vitus Bering: not one continent, but two (1728, 1741) -- Alexander Mackenzie: in the far Northwest (1789, 1793) -- George Vancouver: mapping the coast (1791-1794) -- Robert Gray: a claim on Oregon (1792) -- Meriwether Lewis and William Clark: the great overland expedition (1804-1806) -- Zebulon Pike: where does the river begin? (1805-1806) -- Manuel Lisa: across the wide Missouri (1807) -- Peter Skene Ogden: tough man in the Northwest (1824-1830) -- Epilogue: what did they find? -- Important dates in the exploration of the Pacific Northwest.

Presents a look at various explorers and the expeditions they led to the Pacific Northwest in the years between 1728 and 1830.

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