Explorers of North America
General
- US exploration and settlement before 1675 (map)
- US exploration and settlement 1675-1800 (map)
- US exploration and settlement 1800-1820 (map)
- US exploration and settlement 1820-1835 (map)
- US exploration and settlement 1835-1850 (map)
- US exploration and settlement 1850-1890 (map)
- Exploration of Texas
The first voyages to America
- Irish and Vikings
- Christophorus Columbus
- Discovery and Early Exploration of Newfoundland
- Bristol expeditions and John Day
- John Cabot
- Pedro Alvares Cabral: see The Portuguese Empire
- Amerigo Vespucci
- by German Arciniegas
- by Jeffrey Butch (undergraduate paper)
- by James Canaday (undergraduate paper)
- by Ethel Carrillo (in Spanish)
- by Jonathan Cohen
- by the Encyclopedia Britannica (in German)
- by Jennifer Jury (undergraduate paper)
- by Nadine Kuziemkowski (undergraduate paper)
- by mining.co
- by Publius Historicus (in French)
- Alonso de Ojeda
- Gaspar Corte Real (in French)
- Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
- Sebastian Cabot
- alternative site
- John and Sebastian Cabot
John and Sebastian Cabot
- Juan Díaz de Solís
- alternative site (in French)
- Newfoundland fishery
- Ferdinand Magellan (Fernão de Magalhães)
- Juan Sebastián de Elcano
Central America
- Conquistadors
- Vasco Nuñez de Balboa
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba and Juan de Grijalva
- Francisco de Garay
- Hernán Cortés (Hernando Cortez)
- Malinche (Malintzin)
- Pedro de Alvarado
- Nuño de Guzmán
- alternative site (in Spanish)
- Bartolomé de Las Casas (links)
The Conquistadores in North America
- 16th and 17th century exploration of Texas
- European Exploration in Georgia
- Juan Ponce de León
- Alonso Álvarez de Pineda
- alternative site
- Lucas Vásquez de Ayllón
- Pánfilo de Narváez
- alternative site
- yet another site
- Alvaro Núñez Cabeza de Vaca
- Windows to the Unknown, various articles.
Cabeza de Vaca's own Relación - different site
article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
- Alonso Castillo Maldonado
- Maldonado - alternative site
- Andrés Dorantes de Carranza
Dorantes de Carranza - alternative site
- Estevanico (Esteban)
- alternative site
- History of Estevanico
- Letters on Texas Explorers: Esteban
The Estevanico Society
- Marcos de Nizza
- Francisco Vasquez de Coronado
- alternative site
- Quivira
- California Discovered - Alarcon, Diaz and Anza
- Hernando de Soto
- Tristán de Luna
- alternative site
- yet another site
- Luna's expedition as an example of Spanish colonization fleets
- archaeology
- Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva
- Agustín Rodríguez and Francisco Sánchez
- Agustín Rodríguez
- Francisco Sánchez
- Antonio de Espejo
- alternative page
- Diego Pérez de Luxán
- Francisco Leyva de Bonilla
- Antonio Gutiérrez de Humaña
- Jusepe Guti&eeacute;rrez
- Juan de Oñate
- Vicente de Zaldívar
- Jean Ribault and Charlesfort
- Pedro Menendez de Aviles
- Spanish Colonies in Florida
- Santa Elena
- St. Augustine
- Spanish missions in Florida (and surrounding areas)
- Timicuan language region
- Georgia (map)
- Mission San Luis
- Portuguese exploration
- Newfoundland fishery
- João Alvares Fagundes (in French)
- alternative site (in Portuguese)
- Giovanni da Verrazzano
- Jacques Cartier
- alternative site
- Roberval
- Henry Hudson's Dutch voyage
- Half Moon history
- His ship, the Halve Maen (Half Moon)
- Newfoundland fishery
- John Hawkins
- alternative site
The Northwest Passage
- See: The polar regions
The French
- The Mapping of the Great Lakes in the seventeenth century
- Cartier: see coastal exploration
- Samuel de Champlain
- Pierre du Gua, Sieur de Monts (alternative site (in French))
- Étienne Brulé
- alternative site
- Jean Nicollet
- Jean de Quen
- Coureurs du bois
- Médard Chouart des Groseilliers & Pierre Esprit Radisson
- alternative site
- yet another site (French version)
- Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette
- Jacques Marquette
- alternative site (in French)
- Louis Jolliet
- Louis Hennepin
- alternative site
- Hennepin's narrative
map
- René Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle (links)
- Henri Joutel
- Henri de Tonti (in French)
- alternative site
- Jean Jarry
- Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville
- alternative sites: 1, 2
- Charles Albanel
- Daniel Greysolon, Sieur Dulhut
- site in French
- alternative site
- Nicolas Perrot
- alternative site
- Pierre de Troyes
- Baron La Hontan
- Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac
- Louis Juchereau de St. Denis
- Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye
- alternative site (in French)
- yet another site (French version)
- Mallet brothers
- Pierre Antoine Mallet
- Paul Mallet
- Jean Baptiste Point du Sable
The British Colonies
- General:
- The Colonial Period (from: The American Revolution - an .HTML project)
- Sir Humphrey Gilbert
- alternative site
- Sir Walter Raleigh and the Roanoke colonies
- Martin Pring
- John Smith
- Jamestown's lost twin (Popham)
- The Pilgrim Fathers and the Mayflower
- History of Thanksgiving
- The founding of the other colonies:
- The first British colonies
- Carolina
- Dutch and Swedish colonies
- New Netherlands
- Narratives of New Netherlands (19th century book)
- The Failure of West India Company Farming on the Island of Manhattan
- The surrender of New Netherlands
- the New Netherlands Museum - home of the replica of the Half Moon
- William Penn
- map from early colonial times
- The colonization of Newfoundland
- The English conquest of Georgia
Russian America
- Vitus Bering
- Aleksei Ilich Chirikov
- map, based on the voyage of Bering and Chirikov
- Aleksej Gvozdev
- Gvozdev's report to Spanberg (in Russian)
- Alexandr Andreivich Baranov
- Sitka
- The History of Castle Hill
- For American explorers, see United States
Later Spanish exploration
See for seaborne exploration: the Northwest coast
- Tubac Through Four Centuries. An Historical Resume and Analysis
- Juan de Salas
- Eusebio Francisco Kino
- alternative site
- yet another site
- Fernando de Azcué
- Fernando del Bosque and Juan Larios
- Fernando del Bosque
- Diego de Peñalosa
- alternative site
- Juan Domínguez de Mendoza and Fray Nicolás López
- Lopez - alternative site
- Juan Enríquez Barroto
- Pedro de Iriarte
- Rivas-Iriarte expedition
- Martín de Rivas
- Rivas-Iriarte expedition
- Francisco López de Gamarra
- Andrés de Pez y Malzárraga
- Alonso De León
- alternative site
- Damían Massanet
- Domingo Terán de Los Ríos
- Diego Ramón
- Ramón expedition
- Pedro de Aguirre, Isidro Félix de Espinosa and Antonio de San Buenaventura y Olivares
- Espinosa-Olivares-Aguirre expedition
- Domingo Ramón
- Marqués de San Miguel de Aguayo
- José de Escandón
- alternative site
- yet another site
- Athanase de Mézières
- Gaspar de Portolá
- alternative site
- The founding of Monterey
- Monterey's first years
- Junípero Serra
- Juan Bautista De Anza
- alternative site
- Francisco Dominguez & Silvestre Velez de Escalante
- Pierre Vial
- José Mares
the Northwest coast
Included are Spanish seaborne voyages to California. For the voyages overland
see Later Spanish Exploration
- Coastal exploration of California
- The history of Nootka
- Nootka and the Spanish Empire
- Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo
- alternative site
- Drake: see the Pacific
- Sebastián Vizcaino
- Vizcaino in Monterey
- Juan Perez
- Juan Francisco la Bodega y Quadra & Bruno Hezeta
- James Cook
- Now has his own link page
- Robert Gray
- Alejandro Malaspina
- Cayetano Valdes and Dionisio Alcala Galiano
- George Vancouver
- alternative site
- yet another site
Canada
See the Polar regions for the islands and seas of northern
Canada.
- For the French explorers, see above.
- History of the Fur Trade
- Timeline - A Brief History of the Fur Trade
- The Hudson's Bay Company
- Médard Chouart des Groseilliers & Pierre Esprit Radisson
- Henry Kelsey
- alternative site
- James Knight
- Christopher Middleton
- Samuel Hearne
- alternative site
- his own writings
- map
- Peter Pond
- Alexander Mackenzie
- Simon Fraser
- David Thompson
- extensive site on Thompson
- alternative site (in French)
- John Clarke
- Samuel Black
- John Palliser
- journal fragments and photographs
- John Palliser, Henry Youle Hind and Simon Dawson
- The Moravian missions to Labrador
The United States
This part contains only explorers of American nationality. British, French and
Spanish explorers can be found in the parts above.
- Daniel Boone
- alternative site
- Daniel Boone - Myth and Reality
- autobiography
- Life and adventures of Col. Daniel Boone (18th century biography)
- Daniel Boone Homestead - alternative site
- Mountain Men
- Mountain Men and the Fur Trade - sources of the history of the Fur Trade in the Rocky Mountain West
- Meriwether Lewis & William Clark
- Sacagawea
- Thomas Freeman
- Peter Custis
- Zebulon Montgomery Pike
- Stephen Long
- alternative site
- John Colter
- the Astorians (Hunt & Stuart)
- alternative site
- John Jacob Astor
- Manuel Lisa
- alternative site
- William Ashley
- James Pierson (Jim) Beckwouth
- Jedediah Strong Smith
- Peter Skene Ogden
- James (Jim) Bridger
- Benjamin Louis Eulalie de Bonneville
- Joseph Reddeford Walker
- Nathaniel Wyeth
- Fort Hall
- Book by John B. Wyeth
- John James Audubon
- John Charles Frémont
- James William Abert
- Brigham Young
- alternative site
- The Mormon Pioneer Story
- William Hemsley Emory
- Robert S. Neighbors
- Randolph Barnes Marcy
- John Wesley Powell
- Clarence King
- Trails to the west:
- Santa Fe Trail
- Oregon Trail
- Old Spanish Trail
- Oregon-California Trails Association
- California Goldrush 1849
- George Wheeler
- map
- Harriman Alaska Expedition