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On a chance visit to Plymouth Rock, Tony Horwitz makes an unsettling discovery. A history buff since early childhood, expensively educated at university—a history major, no less!—he’s reached middle age with a third-grader’s grasp of early America. In fact, he’s mislaid more than a century of American history, the period separating Columbus’s landing in 1492 from the arrival of English colonists at Jamestown in...
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Illustrations and easy-to-follow text profile the establishment of Spanish colonies in America's southern territories, and describes the exploration of Ponce de Leon, Francisco Vasquez, and others; as well as the founding missions and cities, and other related topics.