The most complete history that you can read is Wanderlust by Russ Banham.
Many of the historied prior to Wanderlust have been made from hearsay and documents with factual errors. That's not to say that most of the information is correct.
Wanderlust is the best at this date.
You may go to this website for tidbits of history.
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