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Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men: A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West by Carl P. Russell Publisher Comments This classic, scholarly history of the fur trappers and traders of the early nineteenth century focuses on the devices that enabled the opening of the untracked American west. Sprinkled with interesting facts and old western lore, this guide to traps and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation by Jon T Coleman Publisher Comments In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glasss fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glasss injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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Tales of the Mountain Men: Seventeen Stories of Survival, Exploration, and Outdoor Craft by Lamar Underwood Publisher Comments Classic stories about the adventurers who explored and settled the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Last War Trail by Edward S Ellis Publisher Comments 1887. Ellis, a prolific writer who used a number of pseudonyms, is the author of stories for The Flying Boys Series, Deerfoot Series, Boys Banner Series, Foreign Adventure Series, Wyoming Valley Series, Young Pioneer Series, Log Cabin Series and many... (read more) List Price $33.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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La Salle by Donald S. Johnson Publisher Comments Rene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de la Salle (1643-1687) was the first man to navigate with extreme difficulty the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, thereby establishing France's claim on a swath of the North American... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Kit Carson and the Wild Frontier by Ralph Moody Publisher Comments In 1826 an undersized sixteen-year-old apprentice ran away from a saddle maker in Franklin, Missouri, to join one of the first wagon trains crossing the prairie on the Santa Fe Trail. Kit Carson (1809-68) wanted to be a mountain man, and he spent his... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West by D'arcy Jenish Publisher Comments Epic Wanderer, the first full-length biography of mapmaker David Thompson (1770-1857), is set in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries against the broad canvas of dramatic rivalries between the United States and British North America... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Joe Meek The Merry Mountian Man by Stanley Vestal Publisher Comments A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, as much as to say, 'I can tell you about it'), a harum-scarum, don't-care sort of man, full of life and fun. That's how a contemporary described... (read more) Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts Publisher Comments Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Frémont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout and Indian fighter, boldly ventured into untamed territory to fulfill America's "manifest destiny." Drawing on... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Trade Paper
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Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire (10 Edition) by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Covering more than two centuries, The Beaver Men recounts the beginning of the beaver trade along the St. Lawrence to the last great rendezvous of traders and trappers on Hams Fork, in what is now Wyoming, in 1834. The Beaver Men is the third in Mari... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $15.60 New - Trade Paper
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Long George Francis: Gentleman Outlaw of Montana by Gary A Wilson Publisher Comments Feared and hated by a few who held that he was an outlaw, "Long George" Francis was the rumored leader of a major gang of cattle and horse thieves and, supposedly, the head of a ring of bootleggers and hijackers. Still, others considered him a Robin Hood... (read more) List Price $12.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872 by Charles Larpenteur Publisher Comments The son of French immigrants who settled in Maryland, Charles Larpenteur was so eager to see the real American West that he talked himself into a job with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company in 1833. When William Sublette and Robert Campbell sold out to the... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Matthew Harris Publisher Comments In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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French Fur Traders & Voyageurs in the American West: Twenty-Five Biographical Sketches by Leroy R Hafen Synopsis For more than a century the history of the American Frontier, particularly the West, has been the speciality of the Arthur H. Clark Company. We publish new books, both interpretive and documentary, in small, high-quality editions for the collector... (read more) List Price $26.50 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Dominguez-escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776 by Silvestre Velez De Escalante Publisher Comments Translated by Fray Angelico Chavez, Edited by Ted J. Warner Western History The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Fray Silvestre Vélez de Escalante’s most remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute Publisher Comments The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at... (read more) List Price $11.99 Your price: $10.64 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Hernando Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and Discovery in the Southeast by Patricia Galloway Publisher Comments From 1539 to 1542 Hernando de Soto and several hundred armed men cut a path of destruction and disease across the Southeast from Florida to the Mississippi River. The eighteen contributors to this volume—anthropologists, ethnohistorians, and... (read more) List Price $70.00 Your price: $21.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Journal of a Trapper by Osborne Russell Publisher Comments 'Reader, if you are in search of a Classical and Scientific tourist, please to lay this Volume down, and pass on, for this simply informs you what a Trapper has seen and experienced. But if you wish to peruse a Hunter's rambles among the wild regions of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Oklahoma Western Biographies #27: Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man by David Remley Publisher Comments History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the Claiming of the American West by David Roberts Publisher Comments The exploratory adventures and historical contributions of John C. Fremont and Kit Carson are examined in detail, two complex men whose travels shaped nineteenth-century American perspectives on the frontier and whose manipulations helped spark a war... (read more) Your price: $14.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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