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Author
Series
Pub. Date
1919
Physical Desc
xviii, 181 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Excerpt: "If the average student of Western American History in our schools were asked to recall those names which loom large for him during the four decades from the purchase of the Louisiana Territory to the coming of the settlers, he would doubtless think of Lewis and Clark, Lieutenant Pike, Major Long, and General Frémont, with perhaps one or two others. That is to say, the average student of Western History is familiar with the names of official...
4) Wintering
Author
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In 1801, fourteen-year-old Pierre returns to work for the North West Fur Company and makes the long and difficult journey to a winter camp, where he learns from both the other voyageurs and from the Ojibwa Indians whose land they share.
Author
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 392 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
If you have ever wondered what is was like to be an explorer in the unspoiled American West of the early 1800s, then this is the audiobook for you. Not only a groundbreaking work of American history by critically acclaimed author Robert M. Utley, A Life Wild and Perilous is also a dramatic story of innovation and survival. Here is your chance to live in the very heart of the American wilderness with legendary trappers and mountain men like Jim Bridger,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On the rolling Missouri River a riverboat of fur traders, a U.S. Senator and Prussian royalty are all heading to the Yellowstone from St. Louis. Preacher's onboard because the nation's fate depends on the passengers landing safe and sound. But it won't be easy. Two beautiful women make a play for Preacher. So does a killer. So does a band of river pirates. No sooner does Preacher beat back these threats than the riverboat lands in the middle of a...
Author
Language
English
Description
Congressman, governor, military leader, and senior statesman--no person played a longer, more influential, or more varied role in the shaping of Minnesota than Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-91). Yet Sibley's history reveals universal tensions about the duality of the nineteenth century frontiersman who is at once an accommodating trade partner of the Indian/European/Metis worlds and the conquering government official of the ever-expanding West. Rhoda...
14) Preacher's peace
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Formats
Description
Long before there was a mountain man called Preacher, a young adventurer set off with a team of fur traders from St. Louis for the time of his life. On a wild frontier, he sought a fortune. Instead, he found blood, betrayal, and the beginning of a legend. Armed only with a knife, surrounded by a fierce Blackfoot war party, the young man was forced to kill a warrior chief in an act of audacious courage. But when a grizzly bear attack left him half-dead,...
15) The broken blade
Author
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
900L
Physical Desc
163 pages : maps ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Pierre La Page's father has an accident, thirteen-year-old Pierre must quit school and paddle a canoe 2400 miles as a voyageur for the North West Company in order to earn money for his family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
163 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1700s, twelve-year-old Suzette, an Ojibwa-French girl, hopes that her father will win the fur-trapping contest so that he can quit being a voyageur and stay with his family year-round, but when he is accused of stealing, Suzette must use her knowledge of both French and Ojibwa ways to find the real thief.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's fur trapping season and Preacher is about to discover the Rocky Mountain trail holds more than wild game -- it's also infested with murderers and trail trash quick to deceive, steal, and hunt Preacher down. Among them are Jebediah Druke, his ruthless band of killers, and most terrifying of all, the barbaric renegade Crow warrior known as Blood Eye. There's a showdown coming and only one man will ultimately rise up out of the carnage . . .
Author
Series
Novel of the American West volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
271 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As a cold rain falls on a morning in 1812, a ragged man slogs through the St. Louis mud to locate the famed Missouri River trader called Manuel Lisa and plead for a job. Lisa doesn't know when he hires the man called John Tylor that Tylor is a hated man. From his ex-wife's bedroom to Andrew Jackson's field tent and General William Clark's offices, an intricate web has been laid for him. Tylor, however, guards his secret well. But has he made his...
Author
Publisher
Lura Publications, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
65 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pierre Charles Le Sueur was a real-life French fur trader and one of the first explorers to visit the frontier west of the Great Lakes. His exploits sound larger than life. Perhaps they were! His inspiring adventures involve pirates, priests, prairies, and plenty of plunder.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Long ago, the legendary trapper known as Preacher took shelter with the Absaroka and fell in love with a girl called Bird in the Tree. Twenty years later, he rescues a woman and her son from an ambush by the hated Blackfoot. The woman is Birdie, and the valiant young warrior is Hawk That Soars--Preacher's son. Now the greatest fighter on the frontier is about to go to war, to protect a family he never knew he had. Led by the vicious war chief Tall...
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