Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Across the wide Missouri Across the wide Missouri Bernard Augustine De Voto Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a histor… OL1690143W
Butch Cassidy, color edition Butch Cassidy, color edition Carl R. Green "Readers will find out the truth and the myths surrounding the outlaw Butch Cassidy"--Provided by publisher. OL18801583W
Making the White Man's West Making the White Man's West Jason E. Pierce In the early nineteenth century, critics like Zebulon Pike and Washington Irving viewed the West as a ?dumping ground? for free blacks and Native Americans, a place where they could be segregated fro… OL20930399W
Photographing the frontier Photographing the frontier Dorothy Hoobler Discusses early photographic images of the West and the photographers responsible for these photographic records. OL22601605W
Riding the High Wire Riding the High Wire Robert A. Trennert "Riding the High Wire is the first comprehensive history of aerial mine tramways in the American West, describing their place in the evolution of mining after 1870. Robert A. Trennert shows how the m… OL2718169W
John Charles Frémont John Charles Frémont Charles W. Maynard A brief biography of the man who helped open the way west to California and was later elected as a United States Senator from that state. OL5823429W
The story of the outlaw The story of the outlaw Emerson Hough "The American West offered abundant opportunities for those seeking gold and gunfights, fame and infamy. Popular Western writer Emerson Hough (1857-1923) was the author of the history The Story of th… OL6213284W
North to Montana North to Montana Betty M. Madsen The story of the north-south trail from the Great Salt Lake in Utah to Helena and Fort Benton in Montana in its busiest years, from the 1860's to 1884. OL6813900W
Army regulars on the western frontier, 1848-1861 Army regulars on the western frontier, 1848-1861 Durwood Ball "Deployed to posts from the Missouri River to the Pacific in 1848, the United States Army undertook an old mission on the frontiers new to the United States: occupying the western territories; suppre… OL7797517W