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C. F. McGlashan was the newspaper editor and publisher of the local daily in Truckee, California, the closest town to the Donner Pass. Over the course of an eighteen-month period, McGlashan interviewed the survivors of the Donner Party, gathered artifacts, and amassed an enormous amount of secondary information. He published his findings as serialized articles in his paper, which were later published in book form. Detailed and engaging, History of...
7) Rivers west
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Two hardy young men brave the dangers of the frontier and the hazards thrown in their way by the Baron Richard Torville who is scheming to take over the Louisiana Territory.
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Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology volume bull. 40
House document volume 60th Congress, no. 1529
Smithsonian Institution volume Bulletin 40 pt. 1-2
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House document volume 60th Congress, no. 1529
Smithsonian Institution volume Bulletin 40 pt. 1-2
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Includes chapters on Athapascan, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Kwakiutl, Eskimo and Chukchee. (AB1739).
12) The Grand Canyon
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Lavishly illustrated description of the physical features, trails, roads, points of interest, wildlife and vegetation of the Grand Canyon.
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The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the extent to which human civilization threatens their continued existence.
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Heading to the west in 1822, James Bridger took to the Rocky Mountain wilderness like one born to it, and soon became one of the West's most skillful single-handed hunters and beaver trappers, eventually to take the leadership of a trapper's brigade; and subsequently to accept the responsibilities of proprietorship of a major fur-trapping and trading enterprise.
James Bridger, known as Jim Bridger (1804-1881), was among the foremost mountain men,...