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Commerce of the Prairies
Av Josiah Gregg, Max L. Moorhead
Häftad, 1974
255 kr
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Written as a scrupulously accurate guidebook to the prairies and as an authoritative account of the early Santa Fe trade, Commerce of the Prairies has been a favorite of historians, ethnologists, naturalists, and collectors of Western Americana for generations. But Gregg's masterpiece is not for …
Life in the Far West
Häftad, 1979
285 kr
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In this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton, who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twenty-seven, brilliantly brings to life the whole heroic age of the Mountain Men. The author, from his intimate acquaintance with the trappers and traders of the American Far West, …
Southern Counterpart to Lewis and Clark
The Freeman and Custis Expedition of 1806
Av Thomas Freeman, Peter Custis m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
255 kr
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In 1806 President Thomas Jefferson sent cartographer Thomas Freeman and botanist Peter Custis to explore the southen Louisiana Purchase westward to the Rocky Moutnains. Stopped by a Spanish army in what is today extreme southern Oklahoma, they did not complete their mission. President Jefferson …
Ruxton of the Rockies
Autobiographical Writings by the Author of Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains and Life in the Far West
Av George Frederick Ruxton, LeRoy R. Hafen
Häftad, 1979
263 kr
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More than a travel book, more than an autobiography, Ruxon of the Rockies is a rare and vivid account of a man who lived during a heroic age: George Frederick Ruxton lived among and wrote about the traders and trappers of the American West.Ruxton crammed a dozen lifetimes of adventure into his …
Great Surveys of the American West
Häftad, 1980
343 kr
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After the Civil War, four geological and geographical surveys, later called the Great Surveys, Undertook the massive task of finding out what lay west of the hundredth meridian in the vast American wilderness. Parties led by Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden, medical doctor turned geologist, Clarence …
Recollections of Charley Russell
Av Frank Bird Linderman, H. G. Merriam
Häftad, 1988
233 kr
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The intimate, human memories regarding Charles M. Russell, his genius and eccentricities, which Frank Linderman set down shortly after the death of his good friend, constitute a miscellany of personal insights for which any of Russell's biographers ought to have given his eyeteeth. But in none of …
March of the Montana Column
A Prelude to the Custer Disaster
Av James H. Bradley, Edgar I. Stewart
Häftad, 1991
263 kr
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In the vast body of material dealing with Custer's ""last stand,"" the journal kept by young Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry is at once graphic, incisive, and of first-rate historical importance. It is also little known.It records in detail the major incidents of the march of …
Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492-1493
Häftad, 1991
413 kr
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As the Quincentennial Celebration of Christopher Columbus's discovery of America approaches, interest in the voyage, and in the questions surrounding it, continues to grow. This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal …
Matt Field on the Santa Fe Trail
Av Matthew C. Field, Clyde Porter m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
263 kr
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In 1839 a journalist for the New Orleans Picayune, Matthew C. Field, joined a company of merchants and tourists headed west on the Santa Fe Trail. Leaving Independence, Missouri, early in July ""with a few wagons and a carefree spirit,"" Field recorded his vivid impressions of travel westward on …
Traveler in Indian Territory
The Journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock
Av Ethan Allen Hitchcock, Grant Foreman
Häftad, 1996
293 kr
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In 1841 U.S. government authorities sent Major Ethan Allen Hitchcock to Indian Territory to investigate numerous charges of fraud and profiteering by various contractors dealing with the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw Indians, who had been removed from the South during the last …
Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott
Av Richard Smith Elliott, Mark L. Gardner m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
398 kr
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When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott's duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as a regular correspondent to the …
Early Fur Trade on the Northern Plains
Canadian Traders Among the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians, 1738–1818
Av W. Raymond Wood, Thomas D. Thiessen m. fl.
Häftad, 2000
343 kr
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Long before their first contact with whites, the Mandan and Hidatsa villagers along the Missouri River in what is now central North Dakota had established a prosperous center for a vast intertribal trade network across the Northern Plains. Early white fur traders, learning of the existence of these …
Fur Hunters of the Far West
Av Alexander Ross, Kenneth A. Spaulding
Häftad, 2001
284 kr
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Alexander Ross offers a completely authentic account of the earliest attempts by men of European background to come to grips with the climate, geography, and inhabitants of the Northwest at a time when resourcefulness and daring were prime virtues.It offers, moreover, an on-the-scene interpretation …
Prologue to Lewis and Clark
The Mackay and Evans Expedition
Häftad, 2005
250 kr
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To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795-97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has captured the American imagination more than the Missouri. …
Daily Life in Colonial Mexico
The Journey of Friar Ilarione Da Bergamo, 1761–1768
Av da Bergamo, Friar Ilarione, Robert Ryal Miller
Häftad, 2011
255 kr
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In 1761 Ilarione da Bergamo, a Capuchin friar, journeyed to Mexico to gather alms for foreign missions. After harrowing voyages across the Mediterranean and Atlantic, he reached Mexico City in 1763. His account reveals the squalor, crime, and other perils in the viceregal capital, and details daily …
Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819
Av Thomas Nuttall, Savoie Lottinville
Häftad, 2012
338 kr
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This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas …
Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830
Three French Accounts
Häftad, 2015
245 kr
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In 1827 six Osage people - four men and two women - traveled to Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three accounts are gathered, translated, and …
Missouri Expedition, 1818-1820
The Journal of Surgeon John Gale with Related Documents
Av John Gale, Roger L. Nichols
Häftad, 2015
173 kr
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Repeated clashes between American fur traders and the Plains Indians following the War of 1812 lent urgency to demands that the United States government protect its territory in the West. To remedy the situation, Secretary of War John C. Calhoun planned a military occupation of the upper …
Greatest Show in the Arctic
The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898–1905
Inbunden, 2016
514 kr
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In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities - assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in abject …
Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure
Av Daniel Ellis Conner, Donald J. Berthrong m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
293 kr
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Joseph Reddeford Walker looms large in the lore of the early West. From the Missouri to the San Joaquin, from the Gila to the Yellowstone, Walker spent more than thirty years - from the 1830s to the Civil War - trapping beaver in the Rockies, bartering with the Crow, Ute, Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and …
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Av Robert S. McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel
Inbunden, 2016
357 kr
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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer's work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American …
Manuscript Hunter
Brasseur De Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854–1859
Av Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Katia Sainson
Inbunden, 2017
484 kr
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In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814-1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at …
Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge
Av Richard Irving Dodge, Wayne R. Kime
Häftad, 2017
293 kr
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In the spring and summer of 1875, Lt. Col. Richard Irving Dodge escorted the scientific expedition of geologist Walter P. Jenney into the Black Hills of the Dakotas to determine the truth of rumors of gold started by Gen. George Armstrong Custer the previous summer. The five-month trek north from …
Mapping the Four Corners
Narrating the Hayden Survey of 1875
Av Robert S. McPherson, Susan Rhoades Neel
Häftad, 2021
255 kr
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In 1875, a team of cartographers, geologists, and scientists under the direction of Ferdinand V. Hayden entered the Four Corners area for what they thought would be a calm summer’s work completing a previous survey. Their accomplishments would go down in history as one of the great American …
Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott
Av Richard Smith Elliott, Mark L. Gardner m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
293 kr
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When General Stephen Watts Kearny's Army of the West marched into Santa Fe, New Mexico, on August 18, 1846, Richard Smith Elliott, a young Missouri volunteer, was included in its ranks. In addition to Lieutenant Elliott's duties in the Laclede Rangers, he served as a regular correspondent to the …
Manuscript Hunter Volume 84
Brasseur De Bourbourg's Travels Through Central America and Mexico, 1854-1859
Av Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, Katia Sainson
Häftad, 2024
353 kr
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In two decades of traveling throughout Mexico, Central America, and Europe, French priest Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) amassed hundreds of indigenous manuscripts and printed books, including grammars and vocabularies that brought to light languages and cultures little known at …
Naturalist in Indian Territory
The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849–1850
Av S. W. Woodhouse, John S. Tomer m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
261 kr
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In the spring of 1849 young Philadelphia physician S. W. Woodhouse, an avid ornithologist, was appointed surgeon-naturalist of two expeditions, one in 1849 and another in 1850, to survey the Creek-Cherokee boundary in Indian Territory. A keen observer of frontier life and society, Woodhouse wrote …
Prologue to Lewis and Clark
The Mackay and Evans Expedition
Inbunden, 2003
412 kr
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To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795-97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has captured the American imagination more than the Missouri. …
Exploring with Lewis and Clark
The 1804 Journal of Charles Floyd
Av Charles Floyd, James J. Holmberg
Inbunden, 2005
512 kr
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Sergeant Charles Floyd was one of the first three men enlisted in Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery. Born around 1782 in Louisville, Kentucky, and personally recruited by William Clark, Floyd followed orders and kept a careful diary of the expedition, but only for ninety-nine days. On August 20, …
