Exploration and Empire

{{Short description|History book by William H. Goetzmann}}

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| author = William H. Goetzmann

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| genre = Non-fiction

| publisher = Alfred A. Knopf

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Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West is a book by William H. Goetzmann about the exploration of the American West.{{cite book |author=William H. Goetzmann |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PqWzPwAACAAJ |title=Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West |date=November 2008 |publisher=ACLS Humanities E-Book |isbn=978-1-59740-426-6}} It won the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1967.{{cite web |title=1967 Winners |url=http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/1967 |access-date=27 December 2013 |publisher=www.pulitzer.org/}}{{cite book |author1=Elizabeth A. Brennan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=63nvmt4HqTEC&pg=PA305 |title=Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners |author2=Elizabeth C. Clarage |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1999 |isbn=978-1-57356-111-2 |pages=304–305}}