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Lord Grizzly
by Frederick Manfred  Publisher Comments Hunter, trapper, resourceful fighter, and scout, Hugh Glass was just another rugged individual in a crowd of rugged men until he was mauled by a grizzly bear and left for dead by his best friends. They never expected to see him again. But they did, and...
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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...
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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...
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After Lewis and Clark: Mountain Men (04 Edition)
by Utley Publisher Comments In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous...
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Desert between the mountains :Mormons, miners, padres, mountain men, and the opening of the Great Basin, 1772-1869
by Michael Durham Book News Annotation Life magazine correspondent Michael Durham recounts the story of the Mormon pioneers' search for an area in which to settle, their colonization of the Salt Lake Valley area beginning in 1847, and their various encounters with Spanish ecclesiastics...
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Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West
by Dale Lowell Morgan Publisher Comments A scholarly and well written volume of Jedediah Smith, which may well serve as a base for a complete history of the fur trade of the West. Few have attempted and none has achieved such a task. - A.P. Nasatir, American History Review....
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Trappers of the Far West: Sixteen Biographical Sketches
by Leroy R Hafen Publisher Comments In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill...
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America as Seen by Its First Explorers: The Eyes of Discovery (Dover Language Books & Travel Guides)
by John Bakeless Publisher Comments Fascinating portrait of the New World as the first explorers and settlers experienced it -- Manhattan teeming with wildflowers, Boston with beavers, Chicago a buffalo run. Based on scores of original journals, diaries and letters, authentic Indian...
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The Life of Yellowstone Kelly
by Jerry Keenan Publisher Comments Based on the memoirs and correspondence of Luther Sage "Yellowstone" Kelly (1849-1928), this first full-length biography offers a comprehensive look at a remarkable man who knew the frontier of the American West and recorded his impressions of that time...
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A Newer World: Kit Carson John C Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
by David Roberts Publisher Comments Roberts recreates the expeditions of the American West by John C. Fremont and Kit Carson, done between 1842 and 1854, in this riveting narrative. Roberts portrays the triumph of opening the West, while reminding the reader of the cultural tragedy this...
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Broken Hand, the Life of Thomas Fitzpatrick, Mountain Man, Guide and Indian Agent
by Le Roy Reuben Hafen Publisher Comments Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two...
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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 The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey...
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In the Footsteps of Davy Crockett
by Randell Jones Publisher Comments Randell Jones is part biography, part travel guide, written for the armchair reader or the traveler following in Crockett's footsteps....
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Fremont: Pathmarker of the West
by Allan Nevins Publisher Comments One of the most controversial and romantic figures in American history, John C. Frémont experienced a dizzying succession of public triumphs and humiliations. He made his name exploring the West, surveying, mapping, and describing the Rockies, the...
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Children of the Fur Trade: Forgotten Metis of the Pacific Northwest
by John C Jackson Publisher Comments Jackson recalls the history of the Pacific Northwest Metis (Indian-white mixed bloods) who paved the way for Oregon-bound emigrants by linking two cultures in collision....
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Jim Bridger, Mountain Man
by Stanley Vestal Publisher Comments 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"....
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The Splendid Wayfaring
by John Gneis Neihardt Publisher Comments "" With the publication of "The Splendid Wayfaring" in 1920, John G. Neihardt sought to restore the reputation of a mountain man who went far in opening up the American West. The exciting narrative begins in 1822, when Smith ascended the Missouri River...
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American Fur Trade of the Far West Volume 1
by Hiram Chittenden Publisher Comments Epic in sweep and reach, strongly written and superbly researched, "The American Fur Trade of the Far West" is a classic if there ever was one. Its publication in 1902 made clear how much the fur trade was "indissolubly connected to the history of North...
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Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade
by Barton H Barbour Publisher Comments In this book, Barton Barbour presents the first comprehensive history of Fort Union, the nineteenth century's most important and longest-lived Upper Missouri River fur trading post. Barbour explores the economic, social, legal, cultural, and political...
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Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West: Eighteen Biographical Sketches
by Leroy R Hafen Publisher Comments The legendary mountain men—the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half on the nineteenth century—formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American...
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