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  • Country Never Trod

    William Lewis Manly's 1849 Voyage down Utah's Green River

    William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard.Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary source materials led him to the conclusion ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Sources of the River, 2nd Edition

    The Artwork of Ray Troll

    by Ray Troll ...
    In this true story of adventure, author Jack Nisbet re-creates the life and times of David Thompson—fur trader, explorer, surveyor, and mapmaker. From 1784 to 1812, Thompson explored western North America, and his field journals provide the earliest written accounts of the natural history and indigenous cultures of the what is now British Columbia, Alberta, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Dreams of El Dorado

    A History of the American West

    by H. W. Brands ...
    **From a New York Times bestselling author, a masterful history of the American West—from the California Gold Rush to the settling of Oklahoma and beyond."Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope, this is a bravura performance from one of our master historians." —Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Blood and Thunder**In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling panoramic story of the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Wagons West

    The Epic Story of America's Overland Trails

    by Frank McLynn ...
    An acclaimed historian's "compellingly told" year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century ( The Guardian).In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Serengeti

    The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

    by Dan Flores ...
    Winner: Western Heritage Book AwardSpur Award FinalistStubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book AwardAmerica’s Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa. Pronghorn antelope, gray wolves, bison, coyotes, wild horses, and grizzly bears: less than two hundred years ago ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • A Life Wild and Perilous

    Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific

    "[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier." —Jay P. Dolan, The New York Times Book ReviewEarly in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Empire of Shadows

    The Epic Story of Yellowstone

    by George Black ...
    The story of the conquest of America's majestic national landmark, a landscape uninhabited, inaccessible, and shrouded in myth in the Civil War's aftermath.Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist"George Black rediscovers the history and lore of one of the planet's most magnificent landscapes. Read Empire of Shadows , and you'll never think of our first—in many ways... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans

    An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and History

    by Adele Nozedar ...
    A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America’s native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound wisdom and spirituality has on the West today.Containing a fascinating and comprehensive list of A-Z ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Last Stand

    George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West

    by Michael Punke ...
    The dramatic history of the extermination and resurrection of the American buffalo, by #1 bestselling author of The RevenantMichael Punke's The Last Stand tells the epic story of the American West through the lens of the American bison and the man who saved these icons of the Western landscape.Over the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Those Earlier Hills

    Reminiscences 1928-1961

    Few men have been as set on isolated adventures and as passionate about the wild landscape of Canada as R.M. Patterson. He spent over 30 years in exploration, from northern rivers such as the Nahanni and the Liard, to the foothills of the Rockies, and he recorded his discoveries in vivid words and breathtaking photographs along the way. His memorable articles are presented as a collection by ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The First to Go West

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

    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

    Was $15.99 USD Now $12.99 USD

  • Blood Memory

    The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo

    The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today—a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history inspired by the PBS series "American Buffalo"The American buffalo—our nation’s official mammal—is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $5.99 USD