Review of Into the Wilderness Dreams: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805 Edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maquire, and Peter Wild

Authors

William J. Sheick, University of Texas at Austin

Date of this Version

1995

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 15:3 (Summer 1995). Copyright © 1995 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

Although some readers may wish for annotations to help with occasional obscure moments in the passages, over all they will find this well-produced book to be at once entertaining and instructive. Moreover, Into the Wilderness Dream provides academic specialists in early American studies with a substantial resource for furthering their current interest in appreciating better the cultural diversity of colonial encounters with North America. In many respects, then, the editors have compiled an exemplary anthology.