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In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississippi West, provided invaluable scientific data on the flora and fauna of the Louisiana Purchase territory, and established the American claim...
62) Pony tracks
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Western frontier library volume 19
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Fifteen sketches of Army and sporting life, chiefly in the western part of the United States and in northern Mexico.
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"Russell writes easily, and in the vernacular. He tells of Indians and Indian fighters, buffalo hunts, bad men, wolves, wild horses, tough hotels, drinking customs, and hard-riding cowboys. . . . [He] lived long enough in the West to acquire a vast amount of information and lore, and he has left enough from his brush to prove his place as a sound interpreter of a stirring period and a fascinating country".-New York Times
66) The women
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Text and illustrations present a portrait of the industrious women who helped settle the West.
67) Old Jules
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First published in 1935, Old Jules is unquestionably Mari Sandoz's masterpiece. This portrait of her pioneer father grew out of "the silent hours of listening behind the stove or the wood box, when it was assumed, of course, that I was asleep in bed. So it was that I heard the accounts of the hunts," Sandoz recalls. "Of the fights with the cattlemen and the sheepmen, of the tragic scarcity of women, when a man had to 'marry anything
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Will James' cowboy autobiography Lone Cowboy tells how a little boy, hardly more than a baby, becomes an orphan in the West; how an old French trapper, whom the boy calls Bopy, adopts him and takes him on his long, long hunts; how when he is hardly more than a little boy Bopy is lost in an icy river and the child, heartbroken, rides down into the prairie region alone-on his own. James gives a complete and varied idea of how a cowboy lives.
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Plains dwellers will find here, conveniently described, the uses which Plains Indians made of the wild plants they collected and those they cultivated for food, clothing, medicine, and ornamentation; many of these uses are applicable today. Students of the American Indian will discover the place plants held in the symbolic system of the Plains Indians and an image of a culture that had evolved in harmony with its environment.
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 55
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Fascinating excerpts describe artist's travels in the 1850s among indigenous peoples of North and South America, accompanied by 163 remarkable illustrations of Indians-their clothing, ornamentation and weapons-plus views of village life and landscapes.