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  • The Paper and the River: Lewis and Clark, the Mandan Villages, and the Making of the American West

    by Daniel Whitcomb Avery ...
    Thomas Jefferson drafted the message himself on a January evening in 1803, at a tilted writing desk of his own design: a confidential request to Congress for a modest sum to send a small party of soldiers up the Missouri River. He called the project commercial and scientific. He did not mention that he had wanted the Pacific coast for twenty years, or that no nation living beyond the river would ... Read more

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

    An Indian History of the American West

    by Dee Brown ...
    Dee Brown’s powerful and unforgettable classic that awakened the world to the nineteenth-century decimation of American Indian tribesFirst published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals ... Read more

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  • This Vast Enterprise

    A New History of Lewis & Clark

    by Craig Fehrman ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A major revisionist history of the Lewis and Clark expedition: For the first time in a generation, This Vast Enterprise offers a fresh and more accurate account of one of the most important episodes in American history, humanizing forgotten figures and shattering long-held myths.“This Vast Enterprise is a page-turner and a fantastic achievement.” —The New York Times • ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Mountain Men

    by Rick Steber ...
    Series series Tales of the Wild West
    Born into every generation are a few restless souls who long for adventure. In the early 1800s this wild breed became mountain men who headed up the Missouri, crossed the Rock-ies and continued west, hunting, trapping and exploring as they went.One mountainman,reflecting the general attitude of the day, wrote, 'We found the richest place for beaver we had yet come across, and it took us forty days ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mountain Men of Idaho

    by Darcy Williamson ...
    74 Short Stories of Idaho's Mountain MenThey were hunters, trappers, bear fighters, Indian killers who lived off the land and survived annual rendezvous. The sun, the wind, the harsh winter climate tanned and dried and leathered their faces until those without beards (and there were a few) had to roll up their sleeves to bare white arms as proof of their Caucasian identity. ... Read more

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  • Sacajawea

    by Joseph Bruchac ...
    A novel of the Shoshone woman's epic journey with Lewis and Clark from an American Book Award winner: "A grand adventure . . . not to be missed." — Kirkus ReviewsCaptured by her enemies, married to a foreigner, and a mother at age sixteen, Sacajawea lived a life of turmoil and change. Then in 1804, the mysterious young Shoshone woman known as Bird Woman met Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. ... Read more

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  • My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting (Illustrated)

    by W. T. Hamilton ...
    In writing this book the author had only one end in view, that of relating in a simple way his experiences as a mountaineer. In these days, when such experiences are fast becoming a thing of the past, the story is of special interest. ... Read more

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  • The Story of Sacajawea

    Guide to Lewis and Clark

    by Della Rowland ...
    As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree warriors and taken to be their slave. Several years later, she was bought by a French fur trader to be his wife. Then, in 1804, when she was only sixteen years old, Sacajawea met Lewis and Clark.Carrying her infant son on her back, Sacajawea helped guide the famous team of explorers through the ... Read more

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  • The First to Go West

    American Ambition, Bloody Conquest, and the Fateful Journey of Jebediah Smith

    by Tom Clavin, Bob Drury ...
    The explosive true saga of the legendary adventurer Jedediah Smith and the Mountain Men who explored the American frontier, written by New York Times bestselling authors of Blood and Treasure Bob Drury and Tom Clavin.**It is the early 19th century, and the land recently purchased by President Thomas Jefferson stretches west for thousands of miles. Who inhabits this vast new garden of Eden? What ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Lewis and Clark Companion

    An Encyclopedic Guide to the Voyage of Discovery

    by Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs, Clay Straus Jenkinson, Stephen E. Ambrose ...
    An indispensable guide to the historical expeditionary adventure across the American continent.Preface by #1 New York Times –bestselling author Stephen E. AmbroseMore than two centuries have passed since Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's famous transcontinental journey between the Missouri and the Columbia River systems. They never did find the fabled Northwest Passage, but over twenty-eight ... Read more

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  • The Essential Lewis and Clark

    by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark ...
    With nuanced observations from the star author and historian, here are the celebrated journals documenting Lewis and Clark's legendary expedition into the uncharted American West, abridged into a single volume and translated into modern English.At the start of the 19th century, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark embarked on an unprecedented voyage of discovery. Their assignment was to explore the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes

    by Michael G Johnson ...
    Series Book 467 - Men-at-Arms
    A detailed look at the warriors of the Native Americans who lived around the Great Lakes.This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars.During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the ... Read more

    $15.19 USD