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

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Oxford University Press, c2003.

Adventure and adventurers -- United States -- Biography.

Explorers -- United States -- Biography.

United States -- Biography.

Table of contents

0195169220 (alk. paper)

283 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Biographies selected from the American national biography.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-274) and index.

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.

Horwitz, Tony, 1958-

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