A Visual biography

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Christopher Columbus

1973
A biography stressing the navigational skills and voyages of discovery of the Italian seaman who discovered a new continent while trying to find a route to the Indies.

Robert Cavelier de La Salle

1975
A brief biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who traveled the entire length of the Mississippi and took possession of all its surrounding territory for France.

Francisco Coronado

1974
A biography of the Spanish explorer who in two years traveled over four thousand miles through the Southwest and Great Plains yet failed to find what he was searching for.

Hernando Cortes

1974
A biography of Spanish adventurer, Cortes, who conquered Mexico in the early 1500's thus ending the Aztec nation.

Sacajawea

1978
A biography of the Shoshoni Indian woman who acted as an interpreter, nurse, and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Samuel de Champlain

1974
A biography of the French explorer who was the founder of Quebec and the "Father of New France.".

Roger Williams

1975
A biography of the founder of Rhode Island, often called the "father of religious liberty in America.".

Captain John Smith

1976
A biography of John Smith including his life before he voyaged to Virginia, but with special emphasis on his exploits in North America.

Henry Hudson

1974
A biography of the explorer who claimed the Hudson Valley for the Dutch and the Hudson Bay area for the English.

William Bradford of Plymouth Colony

1974
A biography of the first governor of the Plymouth Colony who served in that office for thirty years and greatly influenced the development of the community.

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