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Handbook of Texas Online: ESPEJO, ANTONIO DE
Antonio de Espejo was born in Torre Milano, a suburb of Córdova, Spain. He went to Mexico in 1571 with Archbishop Moya y Contreras as an officer of the Inquisition and there became a cattleman. By 1580 he had several ranches in the districts of Querétaro and Celayo. [eng] |
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Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe
Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe's reconnaissance of the North American coast was, like the driving of the golden spike, a pivotal episode in American history. The first known published reference to the voyage appeared in Holingshed's "Chronicles" in 1587. The most extensive account, written by Barlowe was published in 1589, in Hakluyt's "Principal Navigations". [eng] |
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Back, Sir George (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
1796–1878, British explorer in N Canada. He accompanied Sir John Franklin on arctic expeditions in 1818, 1819–22, and 1824–27. On an expedition (1833–35) to search for the missing John Ross, Back explored the Great Fish River (now Back River) and Montreal Island in the present Nunavut Territory. His Narrative of the Arctic Land Expedition appeared in 1836. On a later journey (1836–37) he explored the arctic coast of Canada. [eng] |
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Gaspar Corte Real: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Gaspar Corte Real (1450?-1501?) was a Portuguese explorer who sailed to Greenland in 1500, and perhaps also reached the coast of North America (Newfoundland). [eng] |
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Mountain Man John Colter
When Captains Meriweather Lewis' and William Clark's Corps of Discovery neared the Mandan villages on their return trip in 1806, most of the men were good and ready for the comforts of home. Not John Colter. When two trappers headed up the Missouri invited him to join them, he accepted and received his discharge. John Colter was the prototypical mountain man. By 1806, he had already crossed the continent twice with Lewis and Clark, gaining valuable experience in the rigors of wilderness life. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: CARVAJAL Y DE LA CUEVA, LUIS DE
Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva, governor, adventurer, slave trader, and the first Spanish subject to enter Texas from Mexico across the lower Rio Grande, was born in Mogodorio, Portugal, about 1540, the son of Gaspar de Carvajal and Francisca De León, Jewish converts to the Christian faith. As a young man he spent three years at Cape Verde as the king's accountant and treasurer in the black slave trade. Then he emigrated to Spain, traded in grain and wines at Seville, and about 1565 married Guiomar de Ribera, daughter of a Portuguese royal slave factor and a native of Lisbon. [eng] |
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Antonie de Cadillac: French Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Antonie Laumet de La Mothe de Cadillac (March 5, 1658 - Oct. 15, 1730) was a French explorer, soldier, and leader. Cadillac founded the city of Detroit in 1701 and was the governor of the Louisiana Territory from 1710 to 1716 or 1717. [eng] |
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Frémont, John Charles
1813–90, American explorer, soldier, and political leader, b. Savannah, Ga. He taught mathematics to U.S. naval cadets, then became an assistant on a surveying expedition (1838–39) between the upper Mississippi River and the Missouri. He eloped (1841) with Jessie, daughter of Senator Thomas H. Benton, who, after he became reconciled to the match, helped his son-in-law secure command of an expedition to explore the Des Moines River. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: AGUAYO, MARQUES DE SAN MIGUEL DE
(?-1734).José de Azlor y Virto de Vera, soldier and governor, the son of Artal de Azlor, was born in Spain, a member of a family long distinguished in the service of the Spanish crown. He married Ignacia Xaviera, daughter and heiress of Agustín de Echevers, first Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo. Through this marriage José de Azlor became the second Marqués de Aguayo. [eng] |
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Bent, Charles
1799–1847, American frontiersman, b. St. Louis. He entered the fur trade of the Missouri River and became one of the mountain men. His interests turned to the Southwest, and he led expeditions on the Santa Fe Trail. Charles Bent was the senior partner of a trading firm that included Ceran St. Vrain as well as William Bent and others of the seven Bent brothers. [eng] |
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CCSU - Common Friends of Mankind by Richard P. Aulie
John Clarke (England) 1814: Sent out to establish a trading outpost of the Hudson Bay's Company in Chipeweyan country. Tries to find a new trail, along the Lesser Slave River. [eng] |
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Byron, John (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
1723–86, British vice admiral and explorer. Sailing in 1740 with Admiral George Anson on a voyage around the world, he was shipwrecked off Chile. His Narrative of Great Distresses on the Shores of Patagonia (1768) is said to have been used by his grandson, the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, in writing Don Juan. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: EMORY, WILLIAM HEMSLEY
1844: Surveys the Texas-Mexican border 1844-6: Surveys the United States-Canadian border 1848-53: Surveys the United States-Mexican borden 1854-7: Surveys the region of the Gadsden Purchase [eng] |
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Carver, Jonathan
, 1710–80, American explorer, b. Weymouth, Mass. He served in the French and Indian War and in 1766 was hired by Robert Rogers to undertake a journey to some of the Western tribes. He journeyed to the Mississippi and up that river to a point several days' journey above the present site of Minneapolis. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: ESPINOSA, ISIDRO FELIX DE
Isidro Félix de Espinosa was born in Querétaro on November 26, 1679. His parents, Isidro de Espinosa and Gertrudis de Miraelrío Tovar, had married in 1676, and had nine children, six of whom lived to adulthood. On March 18, 1696, Isidro Félix de Espinosa entered the Franciscan missionary College of Santa Cruz de Querétaroqv as a novice, and on March 19, 1697, made his profession. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: AGUIRRE, PEDRO DE
(1678-?) Pedro de Aguirre, soldier, was born in Aranaz, Navarra, Spain, on April 24, 1678, the son of Pedro and María (Sagardia) de Aguirre; the family line can be traced back to the year 1200. Aguirre, a captain in the Spanish army and commander of Presidio del Río Grande del Norte, was ordered by a special council held August 7, 1708, to escort fathers Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares and Isidro Félix de Espinosaqqv to what is now the Colorado River to meet the Tejas Indians and their allies. [eng] |
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Pike, Zebulon Montgomery
1779–1813, American explorer, an army officer, b. Lamberton (now part of Trenton), N.J. He joined the army (c. 1793) and was commissioned second lieutenant in 1799. In 1805 he led an exploring party to search for the source of the Mississippi River; although he mistakenly identified Red Cedar Lake (now Cass Lake) in Minnesota as the source, he was not far wrong. [eng] |
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Charles Marie de la Condamine: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Charles Marie de la Condamine (Jan. 28, 1701-Feb. 4, 1774), was a French mathematician, physicist, explorer, and geographer. La Condamine was sent to Ecuador in 1735 to measure the Earth at the equator. He also scientifically explored and mapped the Amazon region as he rafted to the mouth of the Amazon. Earlier in his life, La Condamine took exploratory trips to Algiers, Alexandria, Palestine, Cyprus, and Constantinople. [eng] |
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Ellsworth, Lincoln
1880–1951, American explorer, b. Chicago, Ill. He was a surveyor and engineer in railroad building and later a prospector and mining engineer in NW Canada. He became the financial supporter and associate of Roald Amundsen in his arctic aviation ventures. [eng] |
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Handbook of Texas Online: CASTANO DE SOSA, GASPAR
Gaspar Castaño de Sosa was born in Portugal, probably around the middle of the sixteenth century. By the late 1580s, he was a longtime associate of Luis de Carvajal y de la Cuevaqv on the northeastern frontier of New Spain. Carvajal named Castaño as alcalde mayor of Villa San Luis (later Monterrey), and with the arrest of Carvajal on orders of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, Don Gaspar assumed leadership at Villa de Almadén (now Monclova). [eng] |
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