discovery and exploration

Presents facts and activities designed to teach children how to conduct historical research, focusing on the puzzle of who really discovered America.

Describes the lives of people involved with exploring and trapping in the American West during the 1800s.

A biography of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the western territories to settlers.

Examines the life and accomplishments of fifteenth-century Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci, discussing his youth and early jobs, his work for Christopher Columbus, his disputed expedition of 1497, and his other voyages.

Presents the life and career of the army officer and explorer who discovered, among other places in the West and Southwest, the great Rocky Mountain peak in Colorado that bears his name.

Presents the life and Arctic explorations of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Profiles the explorer who, upon hearing rumors of the Mississippi River, determined first to find it, then to claim it for France and establish French settlements from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

A biography of the nineteenth-century soldier, politician, and explorer whose many expeditions helped open up the American West to settlers.

Looks at the life of fifteenth-century conquistador Juan Ponce de Leon, discussing his youth, his participation in Columbus' second voyage, and his own career of exploration in the New World.

Describes the life of eighteenth-century American pioneer Daniel Boone, covering his experiences in the French and Indian War and his exploration of Kentucky.