The course of empire

by Bernard DeVoto ; with an introductory essay on the author by Wallace Stegner ; maps by Erwin Raisz
Book - 1960

Tracing North American Exploration from Balboa to Lewis and Clark, Devoto tells in a classic fashion how the drama of discovery defined the American nation. The Course of Empire is the third volume in historian Bernard Devoto<U+2019>s monumental trilogy of the West. Entertaining and incisive, this is the dramatic story of three hundred years of exploration of North America leading up to 1805.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Voto, Bernard, 1897-1955
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c1960.
Edition:Sentry ed.
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