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The devil may care : fifty intrepid Americans and their quest for the unknown
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- Creator
- edited by Tony Horwitz
- Included Title
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- American national biography
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- xviii, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195169225, 0195169220
- OCLC
- ocm52477250
- Biographies selected from the American national biography.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
- Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- John Smith -- David Pietersen de Vries -- Francesco Giuseppe Bressani -- Hannah Duston -- Sir Alexander Cuming -- Ann Hennis Trotter Bailey -- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable -- Samuel Mason -- John Ledyard -- Simon Kenton -- George Crowninshield, Jr. -- Anne Newport Royall -- John Colter -- Giacomo Constantino Beltrami -- Marie Dorion -- Frances Wright -- George Catlin -- Samuel Patch -- David Douglas -- John August Sutter -- James Bridger -- Jacob Netsvetov -- Eliza Hart Spalding -- John Wise -- Albert Pike -- Grizzly Adams -- Agoston Haraszthy de Mokcsa -- John Charles Frémont -- Elisha Kent Kane -- Edward Zane Carroll Judson -- William Walker -- California Joe -- John Morrissey -- Mary Ann Brown Patten -- Buffalo Jones -- Joshua Slocum -- Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclercq Joy Salm-Salm -- Railroad Bill -- Ishi -- David Fagen -- Belle Livingstone -- Hiram Bingham -- Duncan Hines -- Annette Kellerman -- Louise Arner Boyd -- Duke Paoa Kahanamoku -- Merian Coldwell Cooper -- Hubert F. Julian -- Richard Halliburton