Exploration and Settlement

Chapter One: First to Reach America; The Peopling of the Americas; A Diversity of Cultures; Features:; Ancient Bones of Kennewick Man; Chapter Two: The Age of Exploration; Vikings in Vinland; Into Atlantic Waters; Spain Gambles on Columbus; Features:; The Saga of the First Sighting; Columbus Reports on His Voyage; Chapter Three: Colonies and Conquistadors; The First European Colonies; The Conquistadors; The Columbian Exchange; Features:; A Conquistador Remembers (journals); Chapter Four: Into North America; The Elusive Northwest Passage; The Quest Continues; First Footholds; Features:; Cabot's Discoveries; New England in California?; Chapter Five: Adventurers and Pilgrims; The Jamestown Colony; The Plymouth Colony; Colonists and Native Americans; Features:; Pocahontas: Fact or Fiction?; Chapter Six: New Netherland, New France, and New Spain; France Advances into the Interior; The Dutch Claim; The Spanish Borderlands; Features:; The Norse Return to America; A Survivor's Story (journal); Timeline; Glossary; Primary Source List; For More Information; Index.

Biography

Rebecca Stefoff has written many nonfiction books for young readers. Earlier works about the exploration of North America include the three-volume Extraordinary Explorers series (Oxford University Press, 1992), The Viking Explorers (Chelsea House, 1993), and Exploring the New World (Benchmark Books, 2001). Stefoff has written about the settlement of North America in The Colonies (Benchmark Books, 2001) and American Voices from Colonial Life (Benchmark Books, 2003).