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Cumming, William Patterson was born on October 31, 1900 in Nagoya, Japan. Son of Calvin Knox and Ona (Patterson) Cumming. parents American citizens.
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First published in 1958, The Southeast in Early Maps is William Cumming's classic study of the mapping of the Southeast before the American Revolution. By analyzing printed and manuscript maps of the area in the light of other contemporary primary documents, the book traces the expansion of geographical knowledge about the Southeast over the course of its discovery and colonization. With 124 illustrations--including a new gallery of 24 color reproductions of maps selected from the Cumming Collection in the E. H. Little Library at Davidson College--this stunning edition will be a valuable reference for scholars, collectors, cartographers, geographers, historians, archaeologists, archivists, librarians, genealogists, and surveyors. It features an introductory essay on the early historical cartography of the region, an extensive annotated checklist of printed and manuscript local maps from the colonial period, an updated bibliography, and a new section on the role of Native Americans in the mapping of the Southeast.
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This volumes presents a compelling recreation of early North American explorers and exploration through carefully documented commentary linked to original narratives by traders, frontiersmen, priests and soldiers, as well as a superb range of contemporary maps, drawings and pictures, many never before reproduced. The amount of discovery literature published during the 17th and 18th centuries is enormous, and ranges from the articulate reports contained in the 'Jesuit Relations' to the rough but graphic accounts of traders. The aims of the explorers' journeys varied: exploitation of the fur trade, determination to claim new territories, missionary zeal, the quest for the western ocean, and, in the end, delineation of boundaries. But whatever their motives, the explorers' narratives are full of vivid descriptions of great rivers, seemingly endless plains, snow-capped mountains, lakes like inland seas and, above all, the customs and curiosities of the numerous Indian peoples and the super-abundance of animal and plant life. Each chapter of this book is prefaced by a historical survey of the opening up of new land and the main routes followed. In contemporary accounts certain figures stand out for the importance of their journeys or the perception of their writings: Radisson, who served both British and French in turn; La Verendrye searching for the western ocean; La Salle on the Mississippi and the Gulf coast; Gist and Daniel Boone in Kentucky; Perea and Cook on the northwest coast; Escalante in the western interior. The experience of these men's not only richly informative but makes highly entertaining and absorbing narrative in its own right.
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Discovery and exploration of the North American continent, from the earliest references down to the first permanent settlements, as described by the explorers themselves and delineated by contemporary Europeans. From the dustjacket
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Cumming, William Patterson was born on October 31, 1900 in Nagoya, Japan. Son of Calvin Knox and Ona (Patterson) Cumming. parents American citizens.
AB, Davidson College, 1921; Master of Arts, Princeton University, 1922.
Member of faculty, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1927-1989;
Professor of English, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1937-1968;
department chairman English, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1964-1968;
Irvin Professor of English, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1961-1968;
Irvin professor emeritus, Davidson (North Carolina) College, 1968-1989. Attache Department State, 1945-1946. Visiting professor Annamalai U., India, 1963-1964, Shikoku Christian College, Japan, 1964.
Cartographic consultant United States Dept.Justice, 1961, State of South Carolina., 1978.
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(First published in 1958, The Southeast in Early Maps is W...)
(1974 University of Chicago HARDCOVER, 114pp, wide 8vo.)
(Book by Cumming, William P., Rankin, Hugh)
Editor: The Revelations of St. Birgitta, 1929, The Discoveries of John Lederer, 1958. Co-editor: A Map of the British Empire in America...by Henry Popple, 1972, North America at the Time of the Revolution: A Collection of Eighteenth Century Maps, 1975. Contributor articles to professional journals.
Chairman Davidson-North Mecklenburg chapter American Red Cross, 1941-1943. Member Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, Southern Atlantic Modern Language Association (president 1957), History Society North Carolina (president 1955-1956), Lions, Phi Beta Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Lathrop Chandler, December 22, 1931. Children: Edward Chandler (deceased), Robert Patterson.