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Across the wide Missouri
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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… |
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Butch Cassidy, color edition
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Carl R. Green |
"Readers will find out the truth and the myths surrounding the outlaw Butch Cassidy"--Provided by publisher. |
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Making the White Man's West
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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… |
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Photographing the frontier
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Dorothy Hoobler |
Discusses early photographic images of the West and the photographers responsible for these photographic records. |
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Riding the High Wire
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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… |
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John Charles Frémont
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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. |
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The story of the outlaw
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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… |
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North to Montana
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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. |
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Army regulars on the western frontier, 1848-1861
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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… |
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