Snell, T. Loftin. <br/><br/>
The wild shores :  America's beginnings / 
 America's beginnings 
by Tee Loftin Snell ; photos. by Walter Meayers Edwards, paintings by Louis S. Glanzman ; foreword by David Mark Griffiths ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society. 
 - Washington :  National Geographic Society,  [1974] 
 - 203 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 202) and index. 
<br/><br/>Foreword -- The newfound land -- Island triumphs, mainland defeats, 1492-1561 -- Bloody Florida, lost Roanoke, 1562-1590 -- Settlers for a season, 1520-1608 -- Holding on in Virginia and Canada, 1607-1620 -- Pious Plymouth, rowdy Manhattan, 1620-1630 -- Lords brethren and lords Calvert, 1625-1647 -- Struggle over land, rent and rulers, 1638-1699 -- Outposts in the south, 1 650-1775 -- Missions and fur posts on the Pacific, 1740-1841. 
<br/><br/> Examines the origins of America's early settlers and the successes and failures of the early French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, German, and Russian settlements in the New World. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0870441485 9780870441486 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>74001564 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>20110065743  can 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1600-1865 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>----<br/>Discoveries in geography.<br/>United States--Discovery and Exploration.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>America--Discovery and exploration.<br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.<br/>United States--History--1783-1865.<br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.<br/>United States--History--1783-1865.<br/>--<br/>--Histoire--<br/>--Histoire--1783-1865.<br/>America.<br/>United States.<br/>United States--History--1783-1865.<br/>United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.<br/>United States--History--1783-1865.<br/>America--Discovery and exploration.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E121  / .S63 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.1