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Apparently depicting one of the greatest explorers to date, Christopher Columbus. He was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer. He was from the Republic of Genoa, in the auguries of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain he accomplished four voyages in the Atlantic Ocean. Those expeditions and his attempts to find colonies on the isle of Hispaniola instigated the undeviating European settlement of the New World. Christopher Columbus was not the first European to explore the Americas, having been heralded by the Viking expedition headed by Leif Erikson in the 11th century, but his travels brought to the first long-term European interaction with the Americas, instating a phase of exploration, conquest, and settlement that continued for hundreds of years. Cincinnatus Heine Miller, mostly known by his pseudonym Joaquin Miller, was a quaint US poet and frontiersman. He is tagged as the Poet of the Sierras after the Sierra Nevada, of which he made in his Songs of the Sierras. Joaquin Miller’s parents were Hulings Miller and Margaret Witt Miller, who tied the knot in Union County, Indiana. Joaquin was their second son, was born nearby Fulton County, Indiana. For unspecified reasons, he asserted he was born in Millersville, Indiana, a village he declared was discovered by his father, while riding on a carriage going west. Aside from using the pseudonym Joaquin, he then altered his middle name from Hiner to Heine to call to mind the German poet Heinrich Heine. He later settled in northern California in the California Gold Rush years, and had so many enlivening escapades, such as having a vacation for one year residing in a Native American village, and being injured in a clash with Native Americans.
Product ID: 9781776727605
Sku: XN-IVYQ-T054
