The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers

by Simon Winchester

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  Bernard, Ronald M. Sandisfield Then and Now. Sandisfield, MA: Town of Sandisfield, 2012.

  Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. New York: Norton, 2005.

  Berry, Trey, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements, eds. The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006.

  Blum, Andrew. Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet. New York: HarperCollins, 2012.

  Bonnicksen, Thomas M. America’s Ancient Forests. New York: Wiley, 2000.

  Boorstin, Daniel J. The Americans: The Democratic Experience. New York: Random House, 1973.

  Borneman, Walter R. Rival Rails: The Race to Build America’s Greatest Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Random House, 2010.

  Brands, H. W. American Dreams: The United States since 1945. New York: Penguin Press, 2010.

  Brodie, Fawn M. Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History. New York: Norton, 1974.

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  Camfield, Gregg. The Oxford Companion to Mark Twain. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

  Camillo, Charles A., and Matthew T. Pearcy. Upon Their Shoulders: A History of the Mississippi River Commission. Vicksburg, MS: Mississippi River Commission, 2004.

  Carnes, Mark, and John Garraty. Mapping America’s Past: A Historical Atlas. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.

  Cather, Willa. O Pioneers! Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913.

  Chiang, Yee. The Silent Traveller in Boston. New York: Norton, 1959.

  Clinton, Catherine. Fanny Kemble’s Civil Wars. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

  Coffin, Robert P. Tristram. Kennebec: Cradle of Americans. New York: Rinehart, 1937.

  Cooley, Lyman E. The Diversion of the Waters of the Great Lakes by Way of the Sanitary and Ship Canal of Chicago. Chicago: Sanitary District of Illinois, 1913.

  Crofutt, George A. Crofutt’s Overland Tours. New York: Rand McNally, 1890.

  Cummings, Amos Jay. A Remarkable Curiosity: Dispatches from a New York City Journalist’s 1873 Railroad Trip across the American West. Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2008.

  Cunningham, Noble E., Jr. In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987.

  Daniels, George G. The Spanish West. Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 1976.

  Daniels, Rudolph. Trains across the Continent. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

  Daughan, George C. 1812: The Navy’s War. New York: Basic Books, 2011.

  Davis, James E. Frontier Illinois. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.

  Dellinger, Matt. Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. New York: Scribner, 2010.

  Dolin, Eric Jay. Fur, Fortune and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America. New York: Norton, 2010.

  Egan, Timothy. The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2009.

  Ellis, Joseph J. American Creation. New York: Random House, 2007.

  Engelman, Ralph. Public Radio and Television in America: A Political History. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996.

  Fehrenbach, T. R. Seven Keys to Texas. El Paso: University of Texas Press, 1983.

  Fradkin, Philip L. Wallace Stegner and the American West. New York: Knopf, 2008.

  Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. New York: Picador, 1989.

  Fremling, Calvin R. Immortal River: The Upper Mississippi in Ancient and Modern Times. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.

  Fried, Stephen. Appetite for America: How Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West. New York: Bantam, 2010.

  Garrett-Davis, Josh. Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains. New York: Little, Brown, 2012.

  Glaab, Charles N., and A. Theodore Brown. A History of Urban America. New York: Macmillan, 1967.

  Glacken, Clarence J. Traces on the Rhodian Shore: Nature and Culture in Western Thought from Ancient Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

  Glaser, Leah S. Electrifying the Rural American West. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

  Gordon, John Steele. A Thread across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. New York: Walker, 2002.

  Graham, Alan. A Natural History of the New World: The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

  Greenblatt, Stephen. The Swerve: How the World Became Modern. New York: Norton, 2011.

  Gunther, John. Inside U.S.A. New York: Curtis, 1947.

  Gurasich, Marj. Letters to Oma: A Young German Girl’s Account of Her First Year in Texas, 1847. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1989.

  Gwynne, S. C. Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. New York: Scribner, 2010.

  Hadfield, Charles. World Canals: Inland Navigation Past and Present. New York: Facts on File, 1986.

  Hahn, Thomas S., and Emory L. Kemp. Canal Terminology in the United States. Morgantown: West Virginia University, 1998.

  Hakluyt, Richard. Voyages to the Virginia Colonies. London: Hutchinson, 1986.

  Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1993.

  Halliday, E. M. Understanding Thomas Jefferson. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

  Harlow, Alvin F. Steelways of New England. New York: Creative Age Press, 1946.

  Harpster, Jack. A Biography of William B. Ogden: The Railroad Tycoon Who Built Chicago. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2009.

  Hauben, Michael, and Ronda Hauben. Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997.

  Havighurst, Walter. Upper Mississippi: A Wilderness Saga. New York: Rinehart, 1937.

  ———. Voices on the River: The Story of the Mississippi Waterways. New York: Macmillan, 1964.

  Haydon, Richard, ed. Upstate Travels; British Views of 19th Century New York. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1982.

  Hayes, Brian. Infrastructure: The Book of Everything for the Industrial Landscape. New York: Norton, 2005.

  Hayes, Derek. America Discovered: A Historical Atlas of North American Exploration. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 2004.

  ———. Historical Atlas of the American West with Original Maps. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009.

  ———. Historical Atlas of the United States with Original Maps. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.

  Haywood, Carl W. Sometimes Only Horses to Eat: David Thompson, the Saleesh House Period 1807–1812. Stevensville, MT: Rockman’s Trading Post, 2008.

  Heat-Moon, William Least. PrairyErth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1991.

  ———. River Horse: A Voyage across America. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1999.

  Hegedus, Carol. John Earl Fetzer: Stories of One Man’s Search. Kalamazoo, MI: Fetzer Institute, 2004.

  Herring, George C. From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations since 1776. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

  Hill, Libby. The Chicago River: A Natural and Unnatural History. Chicago: Lake Claremont Press, 2000.

  Hiltzik, Michael. Colossus: Hoover Dam and the Making of the American Century. New York: Free Press, 2010.

  Hinckley, Helen. Rails from the West: A Biography of Theodore Judah. San Marino, CA: Golden West Books, 1969.

  Hobson, Archie, ed. Remembering America: A Sampler of the WPA American Guide Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985.

  Holbrook, Stewart H. The Story of American Railroads. New York: Crown, 1947.

  Ho
lloway, Marguerite. The Measure of Manhattan. New York: Norton, 2012.

  Howe, Daniel Walker. What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

  Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

  Israel, Paul. Edison: A Life of Invention. New York: Wiley, 1998.

  Jefferson, Thomas. Writings. New York: Library of America, 1984.

  John, Richard R. Network Nation: Inventing American Telecommunications. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

  Kelley, Pat. River of Lost Dreams: Navigation on the Rio Grande. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986.

  Kennedy, David M. Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929–1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.

  Kennon, Donald, ed. The United States Capitol: Designing and Decorating a National Icon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

  King, Clarence. Memoirs, ed. James D. Hague. New York: Putnam, 1904.

  Kittredge, William, and Annick Smith, eds. The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. Helena: Montana Historical Society, 1988.

  Klein, Maury. Union Pacific, 3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

  Kneiss, Gilbert. Bonanza Railroads. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1941.

  Koeppel, Gerard. Bond of Union: Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. Philadelphia: Da Capo Press, 2009.

  Korda, Michael. Ike: An American Hero. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

  Kurlansky, Mark. Salt: A World History. New York: Walker, 2002.

  Laborde, Adras. Ransdell of Louisiana: A National Southerner. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1951.

  Landes, David. The Wealth and Poverty of Nations. New York: Norton, 1998.

  Laskin, David. The Children’s Blizzard. New York: HarperCollins, 2004.

  Lavender, David. Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963.

  LeDraoulec, Pascale. American Pie: Slices of Life (and Pie) from America’s Back Roads. New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

  Leonard, John, ed. These United States. New York: Nation Books, 2003.

  Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark. The Definitive Journals of Lewis and Clark, 8 vols, ed. Gary E. Moulton. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

  ———. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, abridged, ed. Anthony Brandt. Washington DC: National Geographic Society, 2002.

  Lewis, Oscar. The Big Four: The Story of the Men Who Built the Central Pacific—Stanford, Hopkins, Huntington, Crocker. New York: Knopf, 1938.

  Lewis, Tom. Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life. New York: Penguin, 1997.

  Limerick, Patricia Nelson. The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West. New York: Norton, 1987.

  Linklater, Andro. Measuring America: How an Untamed Wilderness Shaped the United States and Fulfilled the Promise of Democracy. New York: Walker, 2002.

  Louis-Philippe. Diary of My Travels in America, tr. Stephen Becker. New York: Delacorte Press, 1977.

  Lyell, Charles. A Second Visit to the United States of North America. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1855.

  ———. Travels in North America in the Years 1841–1842. New York: Charles E. Merrill, 1909.

  Mann, Charles C. 1493: How Europe’s Discovery of the Americas Revolutionized Trade, Ecology and Life on Earth. London: Granta, 2011.

  Marx, Leo. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.

  Masters, Edgar Lee. Spoon River Anthology. New York: Macmillan, 1916; Signet Classics, 1992.

  McCague, James. Moguls and Iron Men: The Dramatic Story of the Dreamers and Doers Who Spanned the American Continent with the First Transcontinental Railroad. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.

  McCartney, Laton. Across the Great Divide: Robert Stuart and the Discovery of the Oregon Trail. New York: Free Press, 2003.

  McGovern, Francis J. This Pearl, America: An Immigrant’s Memoir. San Francisco: California Publishing Co., 2001.

  McNichol, Dan. The Roads That Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2003.

  McPhee, John. The Control of Nature. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989.

  McPherson, James. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

  Menand, Louis. The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

  Middlekauff, Robert. The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763–1789. New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.

  Middleton, William D., George M. Smerk, and Roberta L. Diehl, eds. Encyclopedia of North American Railroads. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.

  Mitchell, William L. (Billy). The Opening of Alaska. Anchorage: Cook Inlet Historical Society, 1982.

  Modelski, Andrew M. Railroad Maps of North America: The First Hundred Years. Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1984.

  Morgan, Ted. A Shovel of Stars: The Making of the American West, 1800 to the Present. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995.

  Morris, James. Coast to Coast. London: Faber & Faber, 1956.

  Murphy, John. The Eisenhower Interstate System. New York: Chelsea House, 2009.

  National Railway Pub. Co., Official Railway Guide, New York: National Railway Pub. Co., 1941.

  National Ship-Canal Convention. Proceedings. Chicago: Tribune Company, 1863.

  Neering, Rosemary. Continental Dash: The Russian-American Telegraph. Ganges, BC: Horsdal & Schubart, 1989.

  Newton, Jim. Eisenhower: The White House Years. New York: Doubleday, 2011.

  Nickles, John M. Geological Literature on North America: 1785–1918. Washington, DC: US Geological Survey, 1923.

  O’Neil, Paul. The Rivermen. New York: Time-Life Books, 1975.

  Pagnamenta, Peter. Prairie Fever: British Aristocrats in the American West, 1830–1890. New York: Norton, 2010.

  Parkman, Francis. The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life. New York: Library of America, 1991.

  Patterson, James T. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

  ———. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

  Pauketat, Timothy R. Cahokia: Ancient America’s Great City on the Mississippi. New York: Penguin, 2009.

  Pence, Richard A., ed. The Next Greatest Thing. Washington, DC: National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 1984.

  Pierson, George Wilson. American Historians and the Frontier Hypothesis. Chicago: American Historical Association, 1941.

  Powell, John Wesley. The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons. New York: Dover, 1961.

  Raban, Jonathan. Bad Land: An American Romance. New York: Vintage, 1996.

  ———. Driving Home: An American Journey. New York: Pantheon, 2010.

  Rabbitt, Mary C. Minerals, Lands, and Geology for the Common Defence and General Welfare, 3 vols. Washington, DC: US Geological Survey, 1979–1986.

  Rees, Tony. Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.

  Reid, Robert L., ed. Always a River: The Ohio River and the American Experience. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

  Roberts, David. Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

  Rollins, Philip Ashton, ed. The Discovery of the Oregon Trail: Robert Stuart’s Narratives of His Overland Trip Eastward from Astoria in 1812–13. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

  Ronda, James P., ed. Voyages of Discovery: Essays on the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Helena: Montana Historical Society Press, 1998.

  Rowsome, Frank, Jr. The Verse by the Side of the Road: The Story of the Burma Shave Jing
les. Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, 1965.

  Sandweiss, Martha. Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception across the Color Line. New York: Penguin, 2009.

  Schecter, Barnet. George Washington’s America: A Biography through His Maps. New York: Walker, 2010.

  Shank, William H. The Best from American Canals. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1991.

  ———. Towpaths to Tugboats: A History of American Canal Engineering. York, PA: American Canal and Transportation Center, 1982.

  Shaw, Ronald E. Canals for a Nation: The Canal Era in the United States, 1790–1860. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

  Sheriff, Carol. The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817–1862. New York: Hill & Wang, 1996.

  Silverman, Kenneth. Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel F. B. Morse. New York: Knopf, 2003.

  Smiles, Samuel. Lives of the Engineers. London: John Murray, 1879.

  Snyder, Gerald S. In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society, 1970.

  Starr, Kevin. Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America’s Greatest Bridge. New York: Bloomsbury, 2010.

  Stavans, Ilan, ed. Becoming Americans; Four Centuries of Immigrant Writing. New York: Literary Classics of the United States, 2009.

  Stegner, Wallace. Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1953.

  ———. Big Rock Candy Mountain. New York: Penguin, 1991.

  ———. Mormon Country. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1981.

  Stegner, Wallace, and Page Stegner. American Places. New York: Penguin Books, 2006.

  Stein, E. P. Flight of the Vin Fiz: Being an Account of the Wondrous Adventures of Calbraith P. Rodgers and His Flying Machine in the Grand Coast-to-Coast $50,000 Air Race. New York: Arbor House, 1985.

  Stein, Mark. How the States Got Their Shapes. New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

  Stone, Irving. Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West 1840–1900. Garden City: Doubleday, 1956.

  Stover, John F. American Railroads. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961.

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly. Boston: John P. Jewett, 1852; Ticknor & Fields, 1862; New York: Signet Classics, 1966.