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Wilderness manhunt: the Spanish search for La Salle
- Title
- Wilderness manhunt: the Spanish search for La Salle [by] Robert S. Weddle.
- Author
- Weddle, Robert S.
- Publication
- Austin, University of Texas Press [1973]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F352 .W42 1973 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 291 pages illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Robert S. Weddle describes how, in six expeditions by land and five by sea, Spanish explorers combed the coastal region from the Florida Kes to Tampico.
- Subject
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
- La Salle, Robert Cavelier, sieur de, 1643-1687
- To 1846
- Spaniards > North America
- French > United States
- Discoveries in geography
- French
- Spaniards
- French > United States > History
- Mississippi River Valley > Discovery and exploration
- Texas > History > To 1846
- Mississippi River Valley
- North America
- Texas
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [267]-276.
- Contents
- Thorn in america's heart -- The great design -- Bay of the holy ghost -- The buccaneers -- Mud cape -- To the Río bravo -- Awakening in florida -- Land of tiqui pache -- No stone unturned -- Derelict at san bernando -- Río de la porciúncula -- The grand hoax -- The demented frenchman -- San bernando revisited -- Death in the wilderness -- Fort st. louis -- The french survivors -- Mission to the tejas -- The premature thrust -- The french wedge -- La salle's remnants
- ISBN
- 0292790007
- 9780292790001
- LCCN
- 72001579
- OCLC
- ocm00514463
- 514463
- SCSB-583563
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library