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Pioneers of the Pacific Coast

Pioneers of the Pacific Coast

Paperback

19th Century United States HistoryFiction Anthologies

ISBN10: 1508701644
ISBN13: 9781508701644
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 3 2015
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Pioneers of the Pacific Coast is a classic history of exploration along the American west coast. All through the sixteenth century the South Seas were regarded as a mysterious wonderworld, whence Spain drew unlimited wealth of gold and silver bullion, of pearls and precious stones. Spain had declared the Pacific 'a closed sea' to the rest of the world. But in 1567 it happened that Sir John Hawkins, an English mariner, was cruising in the Gulf of Mexico, when a terrific squall, as he said, drove his ships landward to Vera Cruz, and he sent a messenger to the Spanish viceroy there asking permission to dock and repair his battered vessels.

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