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Title The devil may care : fifty intrepid Americans and their quest for the unknown / edited by Tony Horwitz.

Publication Info. Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
©2003

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 Moore Stacks  CT9970 .D49 2003    Available  ---
Description 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note Biographies selected from the American national biography.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index.
Contents 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 -- Jacob Netsvetov -- James Bridger -- 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 -- Agnes Elisabeth Winona Leclercq -- Joy Salm-Salm -- Joshua Slocum -- Railroad Bill -- Ishi -- David Fagen -- Belle Livingstone -- Hiram Bingham -- Duncan Hines -- Louise Arner Boyd -- Annette Kellerman -- Duke Paoa Kahanamoku -- Merian Coldwell Cooper -- Hubert F. Julian -- Richard Halliburton.
Subject Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.
Adventure and adventurers.
United States.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Explorers -- United States -- Biography.
Explorers.
United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Horwitz, Tony, 1958-2019.
Added Title American national biography.
ISBN 0195169220 alkaline paper