Early explorers encounters with natives and wilderness of North America an excellent quick read

Runs like Cougar
   From Florida to Oregon author Bill Lawrence looks at the early wilderness Europeans witnessed and encountered with natives of North America in a entertaining history book. Lawrence lays it out simple in the first encounters and discoveries drawing upon journals and other sources in some of the usual tales we hear about in history books. from the usual stories  about  Jamestown and the Pilgrims to other encounters not so well-known between Spanish explorers and Natives in Florida and between the French and natives in the Great lakes region all encounters between the old and new worlds in North America are recalled and told in this authors style. he focuses on the explorers alertness and recollection of the land and wilderness in his book called " Wilderness" As The Explorers Saw It" and it is a great source of reading material to get a picture at how the first Europeans discovered new and exotic species for them.

The first contact between natives and Europeans varied by region and Bill Lawrence details most of the encounters and motivation for profit and fur trading that developed even n interest in these brutal climate places of the interior of North America. Mr. Lawrence ends his final chapter with the Lewis and Clark expedition which interestingly sometimes is thought as the first major encounter and exploration of the Americas for many and the fact that there are so many other earlier encounters and exploration of the unknown is what makes this book a classic retelling of the European-Aboriginal experience and encounters in the massive wilderness of North America.