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Explorers West (U.S.) Biography Frontier and pioneer life West (U.S.) Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Louisiana Purchase Overland journeys to the Pacific Pioneers West (U.S.) Biography United States Territorial expansion West (U.S.) Description and travel West (U.S.) Discovery and exploration West (U.S.) History To 1848Drury, Bob
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2024
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Summary: Recounts the lives and adventures of British aristocrats who explored and settled in the American West between 1830 and 1890, becoming landowners and making social adjustments to rub elbows with fur traders, Indians, and buffalo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 PAGBlevins, Winfred.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 BLEParkman, Francis
Summary: Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and a sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1943
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 PARUtley, Robert Marshall
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 UTLIrving, Washington
Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRVFenster, J. M. (Julie M.)
Summary: "The surprising story of how Thomas Jefferson commanded an unrivaled age of American exploration, sending out waves of expeditions into the West after the Louisiana Purchase. In presiding over that era of discovery, Jefferson forged a great nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 FENRuxton, George Frederick Augustus
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1983
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 RUXMorgan, Robert
Summary: Traces the lives of 10 Americans who played significant roles in the country's westward expansion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2011