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Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
by Jon T. Coleman
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“A vigorously written meditation on . . . Americas encounter with the wilderness.” —The Wall Street Journal In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body.... (read more)

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Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-trade Society, 1670-1870
Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-trade Society, 1670-1870
by Sylvia Van Kirk
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Beginning with the founding of the Hudsons Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of the Canadian west. Although detailed accounts of the fur-trade era have appeared, until recently the rich social history has been ignored. In this... (read more)

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Joe Meek The Merry Mountian Man
Joe Meek The Merry Mountian Man
by Stanley Vestal
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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)

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Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes
Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes
by Thelma S Guild
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Kit Carson was shown on the cover of an old dime novel slaying six Indians with one hand while protecting a fair maiden with the other. Stories about him, mainly apocryphal, circulated well before his death in 1868 and have been handed down in a... (read more)

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Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
Jim Bridger: Mountain Man
by Stanley Vestal
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Other Bison Books by Stanley Vestal includes: "Dodge City: Queen of Cowtowns"; "Joe Meek: The Merry Mountain Man"; "The Missouri"; "The Old Santa Fe Trail"; "Warpath: The True Story of the Fighting Sioux Told in a Biography of Chief White Bull".... (read more)

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John Colter, His Years in the Rockies: His Years in the Rockies
John Colter, His Years in the Rockies: His Years in the Rockies
by Burton Harris
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John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported... (read more)

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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
by Dale L Morgan
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In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain... (read more)

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Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
by Raymond W. Thorp
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The true story (on which the film Jeremiah Johnson was partially based) ofJohn Johnson, who in 1847 found his wife and her unborn child had been killed by Crow braves. Out of this tragedy came one of the most gripping feudsone man against a whole tribein... (read more)

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The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
The Taos Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest, 1540-1846
by David J Weber
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In this comprehensive history, David J. Weber draws on Spanish, Mexican, and American sources to describe the development of the Taos trade and the early penetration of the area by French and American trappers. Within this borderlands region, colorful... (read more)

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Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman
Sam Sixkiller: Cherokee Frontier Lawman
by Chris Enss
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Sam Sixkiller was one of the most accomplished lawmen in 1880s Oklahoma Territory. And in many ways, he was a typical law enforcement official, minding the peace and gunslinging in the still-wild West. What set Sam Sixkiller apart was his Cherokee... (read more)

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Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
Here Lies Hugh Glass: A Mountain Man, a Bear, and the Rise of the American Nation
by Jon T Coleman
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“A vigorously written meditation on . . . Americas encounter with the wilderness.” —The Wall Street Journal In the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body.... (read more)

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The Last War Trail
The Last War Trail
by Edward S Ellis
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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)

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Issues in Law, Race and Gender #14: Life in the Far West
Issues in Law, Race and Gender #14: Life in the Far West
by George F. Ruxton
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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... (read more)

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A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
by David Roberts
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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)

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Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
Forty Years a Fur Trader on the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
by Charles Larpenteur
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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)

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Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men
by Winfred Blevins
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For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who... (read more)

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The Dominguez-escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776
The Dominguez-escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776
by Silvestre Velez De Escalante
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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)

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Journal of a Trapper
Journal of a Trapper
by Osborne Russell
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'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)

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Oklahoma Western Biographies #27: Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man
Oklahoma Western Biographies #27: Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man
by David Remley
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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)

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The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen
The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen
by George Laycock
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Chronicling the unsung heroes who helped win the West, The Mountain Men intersperses historical facts with profiles of individual mountain men, including tales of harrowing escapes, feats of supreme courage and endurance, and sometimes violent encounters... (read more)

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