AmericanJourneys.org
Title
American Journeys: Eyewitness Accounts of Early American Exploration and Settlement
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- Documents were selected to provide a wide range of geographical, cultural, and chronological information about the exploration of North America by Europeans and, later, Americans. Roughly equal numbers of pages are devoted to each of six regions: the Northeast, Southeast, Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley, Great Plains and Rocky Mountains, Southwest and California, and Pacific Northwest and Hawaii. Culturally, works by Spanish, French and English writers necessarily predominate but Russian, Dutch, German, Italian, and Native American authors are also well represented (the last usually embedded within documents produced by whites). In general, the earliest eyewitness accounts from each geographic region were selected, along with others that have become "classic" through widespread quotation or republication.
