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  • James Bridger, Trapper, Frontiersman, Scout and Guide, A Historical Narrative

    by J. Cecil Alter ...
    "James Bridger...perhaps more than any other contributed to and made history of the western third of the United States...It is astounding...a comprehensive study of Old Jim Bridger...most interesting...a monument to the long-neglected Bridger, a landmark in any comprehensive study of the west and a performance which bespeaks immortality for the author." -Salt Lake Telegram, July 5, 1925"James ... Read more

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  • Jim Bridger

    by J. Cecil Alter ...
    On March 20, 1822, the Missouri Republican published a notice addressed to enterprising young men in the St. Louise area. The subscriber, it said wishes to engage one hundred young men to ascend the Missouri River to its source, there to be employed for one, two, or three years. For particulars enquire of Major Andrew Henry or of the subscriber near St. Louise. The subscriber was General William H ... Read more

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  • The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 382 - Mammoth Books
    Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones ... Read more

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  • History of the Ojibway People, Second Edition

    by William W. Warren ...
    William W. Warren's History of the Ojibway People has long been recognized as a classic source on Ojibwe history and culture. Warren, the son of an Ojibwe woman, wrote his history in the hope of saving traditional stories for posterity even as he presented to the American public a sympathetic view of a people he believed were fast disappearing under the onslaught of a corrupt frontier population. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Jim Bridger - Mountain Man

    by Stanley Vestal ...
    This antiquarian volume contains a detailed and insightful biography of Jim Bridger, written by Stanley Vestal. Vestal is well-known for his books about America. In Jim Bridger he paints a bold and authentic picture of a doughty explorer and of the richness of the American nation when it was still young. Full of colourful anecdote and fascinating insights into the life of Jim Bridger, this text ... Read more

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  • The Falcon

    by John Tanner ...
    John Tanner's fascinating autobiography tells the story of a man torn between white society and the Native Americans with whom he identified.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and ... Read more

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  • A Summer on the Plains, Illustrated.

    by Theodore R Davis ...
    An Eastern Correspondent spends the summer on duty with Hancock's 1867 Indian Expedition, following Hancock and Custer as they attempt to make peace with the warring Indians on the plains. Good examples of real life in the Indian Wars. ... 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 Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka Or Wyoming Opened, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1)

    by Eugene F. Ware, John F. Finerty, Henry B. Carrington, Margaret I. Carrington, Cyrus T. Brady ...
    "The Plains Indian Wars: Indian War of 1864, War-Path & Bivouac, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, & Northwest Indian Fights & Fighters" (4 Volumes In 1) by Eugene Ware, John Finerty, Henry Carrington, and Cyrus Brady is an inside, eyewitness look at the Indian Wars that raged on the Plains from 1865-80. The 4 books show these bloody struggles from point of view of both the white man & Indian culture & tradition.Book ... Read more

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  • Bird Woman (Sacajawea) the Guide of Lewis and Clark: Her Own Story Now First Given to the World

    by James Willard Schultz ...
    Bird Woman is historian James Schultz’s biography of Sacajawea culled from the first-hand accounts of various elderly Native Americans who personally knew her. Schultz weaves together the key events in Sacajawea’s story, from her traumatic childhood and adolescence, being captured and taken away from her home by a raiding party of Minnetaree, to her unhappy marriage to the interpreter Toussaint ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of the Mountain Men

    True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival

    Edited by Stephen Brennan ...
    Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.The mountain men” were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The lifestyle of the mountain men could be harsh, existing as they did among animals, and spending most of their ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bird Woman (Sacajawea) the Guide of Lewis and Clark

    Her Own Story Now First Given to the World

    by James Willard Schultz ...
    An Indian girl, Sacagawea, the Bird Woman of the Shoshones, led the Lewis and Clark Expedition across the desert and over the difficult mountain passes to the Pacific Coast during the seasons of 1804-06.Sacagawea was the wife of an interpreter, Toussaint Charboneau. She had been taken in war by the Minnetarees in her childhood and sold as a slave to Charboneau who brought her up and afterwards ... Read more

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