Exploration of North America Coloring Book
by Peter F. Copeland Author
(From Amazon): Exciting, detailed glimpses of key moments in western exploration, depicted in 39 meticulously researched, realistically rendered illustrations: Vikings in Vinland (ca. 1000 AD), Columbus' ship Nina (1492), Ponce de León in Florida (1513), Verrazano exploring the middle Atlantic coast (1524), 35 others. Captions.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0486271234
- Print Status
- In Print
- Pages
- 48
- Geographical Setting
- North America
- Historical Setting
- 1000 - 1830
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Copyright
- 1992
Pages
- 1 The Vikings in Vinland, ca. 1000 AD
- 2 Columbus' Nina in the Bahamas, 1492
- 3 John Cabot explores Canada's east coast, 1497
- 4 Joao Fernandes explores the coast of Greenland, 1499
- 5 Corte-Real explores Newfoundland, 1500
- 6-7 Ponce de Leon explores Florida, 1513
- 8 A Basque whaler off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 1520s
- 9 Cortes and Montezuma, 1519
- 10-11 Verrazano explores the middle Atlantic coast, 1524
- 12 Estevao Gomes explores the northeast coast, 1525
- 13 Ayllon explores the Carolina coast, 1526
- 14 Cabeza de Vaca travels throug the southwest, 1528-36
- 15 Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1534
- 16-17 Coronado explores the Southwest, 1540-42
- 18 De Soto's exploration of the southeastern United States, 1539-43
- 19 Cabrillo's exploration of the California coast, 1542-43
- 20 Frobisher reaches Baffin Island, 1576-78
- 21 Drake lands in California, 1578
- 22-23 The Roanoke colony, 1584-87
- 24 Davis discovers Baffin Bay, 1587
- 25 Onate colonizes New Mexico, 1598
- 26 The Jamestown colonists explore Chesapeake Bay, 1607
- 27 Champlain establishes the Quebec colony, 1608
- 28-29 Block explores New York Bay and Long Island Sound, 1610 & 1614
- 30 Hudson discovers the Hudson River, 1609
- 31 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620
- 32 Founding of the Maryland colony, 1634
- 33 Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden (Wilmington, DE), 1643
- 34 Marquette explores the Mississippi, 1673
- 35 La Salle petitions Louis XIV for permission to explore the Mississippi, 1677
- 36-37 Cadillac found Detroit, 1701
- 38 Bering discovers Alaska and the Aleutians, 1741
- 39 Daniel Boone settles in Kentucky, 1775
- 40 Captain Cook explores the north Pacific coast, 1778
- 41 Mackenzie crosses the continent to the Pacific, 1793
- 42-43 Lewis and Clark explore the Northwest, 1804-06
- 44 Fraser explores British Columbia, 1808
- 45 Jedidiah Smith travels from Utah to California, 1826-27
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