Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations IX
4. Introduction and Acknowledgments XI
5. PART I. The Cartographic Record
6. Where We Are and How We Got There: Surveying the Record of Exploration Studies 1
7. A New Mode of Thinking: Creating a National Geography in the Early Republic 19
8. Toward a Reliable Geologic Map of the United States, 1803-1893 51
9. PART II. Oceanic Exploration
10. Science as a Landed Activity: Scientifics and Seamen Aboard the U. S. Exploring Expedition 77
11. Elisha Kent Kane and the Eskimo of Etah: 1853,1854,1855 103
12. A Pioneering Oceanic Exploration: Spencer Baird in the Northeast Atlantic, 1871-1887 119
13. PART III. Exploratory A.rt—Spreading the Image
14. Legible Landscapes: Text and Image in the Expeditionary Art of Frederic Church 133
15. Illustrated Government Publications Related to the American West, 1843-1863 147
16. Science and Art Meet in the Parlor: The Role of Popular Magazine Illustration in the Pictorial Record of the "Great Surveys" 173
17. PART IV Exploration and Anthropology
18. From Thomas Jefferson to the Pecos Conference: Changing Anthropological Agendas in the North American Southwest 197
19. The Boasian Anthropological Survey Tradition: The Role of Franz Boas in North American Anthropological Surveys 225
20. PART V Lewis and Clark
21. Strategies for Finding the Northwest Passage: The Roles of Alexander Mackenzie and Meriwether Lewis 253
22. Do or Die, But Then Report and Ponder: Palpable and Mental Adventures in the Lewis and Clark Journals 267
23. PART VI New Thoughts on the West
24. Traversing the Fortieth Parallel: The Experiences of Robert Ridgway, Teenage Ornithologist 281
25. The Romantic AND the Technical in Early Nineteenth- Century American Exploration 301
26. The Second Colorado River Expedition: John Wesley Powell, Mormonism and the Environment 317
27. Appendix 329
28. Notes on Contributors 333
29. Index 335