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Document Type |
Region |
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The accompanying map, was reduced from the original...
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1835
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Broadside
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Minnesota; Canada
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[Account book, May 25, 1825 to June 14, 1828]
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1825-1828
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Financial Record; Journal; Ephemera
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[Account of activities in Canada]
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1843
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Journal
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Canada
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Adventures with Indians and game, or twenty years in the Rocky Mountains
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1903
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Rare Book
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Afoot and Alone; a walk from sea to sea by the southern route. Adventures and observations in Southern California, New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, etc. ...
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1871
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Rare Book; Journal
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North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Alabama; Mississippi; Louisiana; Texas; New Mexico; Arizona; California
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[Ambrotype portrait of Kit Carson]
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1859
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Photograph
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Army sacrifices; or, Briefs from official pigeon-holes. Sketches based on official reports, grouped together for the purpose of illustrating the services and experiences of the regular army of the United States on the Indian frontier
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1879
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Rare Book
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The Dakotas; New Mexico; Mexico; Wyoming; Colorado; Texas
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Audubon and his journals Vol I
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1897
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Ephemera; Photograph; Correspondence; Rare Book; Journal
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Canada
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Audubon and his journals, Vol. II
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1897
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Ephemera; Photograph; Correspondence; Rare Book; Journal
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Kentucky; Florida; Canada
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Autobiography of a pioneer
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1914
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Pamphlet; Journal
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California; Missouri; Texas
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Henry Heald]
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1811
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Correspondence
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[Autograph letter signed, addressed to Mr. Davis]
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1895
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Correspondence
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California
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[Autograph letter, addressed to James Rumsey]
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28 Jul 1770
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Correspondence
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Illinois
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[Autograph letter, addressed to John Bachman]
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08 Jan 1845
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Correspondence
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B.C., 1887. A ramble in British Columbia, by J.A. Lees and W.J. Clutterbuck... with map and 75 illustrations from sketches and photographs by the authors.
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1888
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Rare Book
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Canada
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Baughman, the Oklahoma scout. Personal reminiscences
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1886
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Rare Book
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Oklahoma; Kansas
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The Black Hills. A minute description of the routes, scenery, soil, climate, timber, gold, geology, zoölogy, etc. With an accurate map, four sectional drawings, and ten plates from photographs, taken on the spot.
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1876
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; Nebraska; The Dakotas
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The border and the buffalo: an untold story of the southwest plains
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1907
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Rare Book
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Missouri; Kansas; Texas; New Mexico
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The boundaries of the Louisiana Purchase; a historical study
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1901
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Rare Book
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Louisiana; Texas; Florida
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Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace
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1893
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Rare Book
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Iowa; Colorado
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A chapter in the life of one of the pioneers of the Reserve
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1880-1899
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Journal
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Ohio; Indiana; Pennsylvania
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[Collection of published and manuscript writings]
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1841-1848
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Rare Book; Ephemera
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Colorado; Mexico; Oregon
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Conquering the wilderness, or, New pictorial history of the life and times of the pioneer heroes and heroines of America
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1883
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Rare Book
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Kentucky; New Mexico; California
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Copy of my journal from Fort Union [illegible word] Commencing Augt. 16th at 12 o’clock, the moment of our departure
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c.1845
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Journal
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Crossing the Plains; narratives of the scenes, incidents and adventures attending the overland journey of the Decatur and Rush county emigrants to the "far-off" Oregon in 1852. With an introductory chapter by Camilia T. Donnell, and a thrilling narrative of a Buffalo Hunt and Battle Royal with Mountain Wolves, by Sutherland McCoy.
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1896
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Rare Book
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Indiana; Oregon
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Dakota Tawaxitku Kin; or, The Dakota Friend
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1852
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Periodical
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The Dakotas; Canada
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A day with the Cow Column in 1843; recollections of my boyhood
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1934
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Rare Book; Journal
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Oregon; Idaho
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Death valley in '49...
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1894
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Rare Book
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California; Michigan; Wisconsin; Ohio
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Diary of the Washburn expedition to the Yellowstone and Firehole rivers in the year 1870
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c.1905
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Diary; Journal
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Montana; Wyoming
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The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucke…
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1784
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Rare Book
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Kentucky
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Echoes of the Past
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1914
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Rare Book
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California; Nevada; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Ohio
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Ein ausflug nach felsen-gebirgen im jahre 1839...
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1840
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Rare Book
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Oregon; Missouri
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Expedition to Oregon
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1914
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Pamphlet
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Oregon; Illinois
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Experiences of a trapper and hunter from youth to old age
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1924
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Rare Book
|
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Exploration du territoire de L'Orégon, des Californies et de la Mer Vermeille
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1844
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Map
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California; Oregon
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The extermination of the American bison, with a sketch of its discovery and life history
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1889
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Rare Book
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Kansas; Texas; Nebraska; The Dakotas
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Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts; the vanguards of American civilization
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1883
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; Ohio; Canada; Kentucky; Tennessee; Virginia; California; Washington; New York; Arizona; Colorado; Nebraska; Texas; Pennsylvania
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For Alaska gold fields the Kotzebue Sound Mining and Trading Co. will dispatch the fast sailing bark J.A. Falkenburg...on May 10, 1898 direct to Kotzebue Sound ...
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1898
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Broadside; Poster
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Alaska; California
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[Four maps taken from 'The central gold region. The grain, pastoral and gold regions of North America. With some new views of its physical geography; and observations on the Pacific railroad.']
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1860
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Map
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Colorado; Wyoming
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Four years in British Columbia and Vancouver Island: an account of their forests, rivers, coasts, gold fields and resources for colonisation
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1862
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Rare Book
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Canada
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Frontier legend; Texas finale of Capt. William F. Drannan pseudo frontier comrade of Kit Carson...
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1954
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Rare Book
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Texas
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George Frederick Augustus Ruxton papers
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c.1839-1948
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Correspondence; Broadside; Photograph
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Missouri; Mexico
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The great west and Pacific coast
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c.1877
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Rare Book
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The West; Pacific Northwest
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The great western almanac for 1843
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1843
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Pamphlet
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The Dakotas
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History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri: volume I
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1814
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Rare Book
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Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming; Idaho
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History of the expedition under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of the Missouri: volume II
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1814
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Rare Book
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Oregon; Washington; Missouri; Wyoming
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The history of Oregon and California: and the other territories of the North-West coast of North America, accompanied by a geographical view and map of those countries, and a number of documents as proofs and illustrations of the history
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1844
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Rare Book
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Oregon; California; Canada; Missouri; Pacific Northwest
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The history of Texas; or, The emigrant’s, farmer’s, and politician’s guide to the character, climate, soil and productions of that country: geographically arranged from personal observation and experience
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1836
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Rare Book
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Texas; Mexico
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Hudson’s Bay, or, Every-day life in the wilds of North America during six years’ residence in the territories of the honourable Hudson’s Bay Company
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1848
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Rare Book
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Canada
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Idaho: six months in the new gold diggings. The emigrants guide overland. Itinerary of routes, features of the country, journal of residence, etc.
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1864
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Pamphlet
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Idaho
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Illustrated notes of an expedition through Mexico and California
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1852
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Rare Book
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California; Texas; Mexico
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Incidents and experience in Iowa from 1840 to 1844
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1840-1844
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Journal
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Iowa
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Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee tribes, Vol. I
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1835
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Rare Book
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Missouri
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Indian sketches, taken during an expedition to the Pawnee tribes, Vol. II
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1835
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Rare Book
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Missouri
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The Indian War of 1864 being a fragment of the early history of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming...
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1911
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Rare Book
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Kansas; Nebraska; Colorado; Wyoming
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The Iowa Band
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1870
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Rare Book
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Iowa; Wisconsin; Illinois
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James Clyman, American Frontiersman, 1792-1881. The adventures of a trapper and covered wagon emigrant...
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1928
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Rare Book
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California; Oregon; Missouri; Illinois; Wisconsin; Utah; Idaho; Wyoming; Nebraska; The Dakotas
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John Bidwell, pioneer, statesman, philanthropist: a biographical sketch
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1906
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Rare Book
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California
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John Colter, discoverer of Yellowstone park; an account of his exploration in 1807 and of his further adventures as hunter; trapper; Indian fighter; pathfinder and member of the Lewis and Clark expedition
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1926
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Rare Book
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Wyoming; Montana; Idaho
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John Hunton’s diary: volumes 1-3 (1873-1879)
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1956-1970
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Rare Book
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Wyoming
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John Hunton’s diary: volumes 4-6 (1880-1889)
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1956-1970
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Rare Book
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Wyoming
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The journal of Andrew Ellicott
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1803
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Rare Book
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Florida; Ohio; Mississippi
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Journal of a trapper, or, Nine years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843: being a general description of the country, climate, rivers, lakes mountains, etc., and a view of the life led by a hunter in those regions
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1914
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Journal; Rare Book
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Wyoming; Idaho; Oregon
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A journal of travels into the Arkansas territory, during the year 1819. With occasional observations on the manners of the aborigines. Illustrated by a map and other engravings.
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1821
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Journal
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Arkansas; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Mississippi
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The journals of Capt. Thomas Becknell from Boone's Lick to Santa Fe and from Santa Cruz to Green River
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1910
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Pamphlet
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New Mexico; Missouri
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L.A. Huffman photographs
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1833-1907
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Photograph
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Montana
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Letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting, in compliance with a Senate resolution of February 23, 1875, a report of the expedition to the Black Hills, under command of Bvt. Maj. Gen. George A. Custer
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1875
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Broadside
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The Dakotas; Wyoming; Montana
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Letter of J. C. Fremont to the editors of the National Intelligencer, communicating some general results of a recent winter expedition across the Rocky Mountains, for the survey of a route for a roilroad [sic] to the Pacific…
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1854
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Pamphlet; Correspondence
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Kansas; New Mexico; Arkansas; Nevada; California
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Letter: Seattle, Wash., to Mr. Fred Lockley, Portland [Oregon]
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23 Apr 1926
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Correspondence
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Washington
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The life and adventures of Colonel David Crockett of Tennessee
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1833
|
Rare Book
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Tennessee
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The life and adventures of James P. Beckwourth, mountaineer, scout, and pioneer, and chief of the Crow nation of Indians. With illustrations. Written from his own dictation, by T. D. Bonner
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1856
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Rare Book
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Tennessee; New Mexico; California
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Life of J. C. Adams, known as Old Adams, Old Grizzly Adams...
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1860
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Pamphlet
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California; Oregon; Utah
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Life sketches of a jayhawker of ’49, by L. Dow Stephens; actually told by himself in his own way.
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1916
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Pamphlet
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Iowa; California; Arizona; Canada
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Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume I, early reminiscences of south western Oregon
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1851-1859
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Journal; Ephemera
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Oregon
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Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume II
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1859-1862
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Journal; Ephemera
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Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume III
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1862-1866
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Journal; Ephemera
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Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume IV
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1866-1875
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Journal; Ephemera
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Loren L. Williams journals, 1851-1880: volume V
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1875-1880
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Journal; Ephemera
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Mad rush for gold in frozen North
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1914
|
Journal
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Alaska
|
Map of explorations and suveys in New Mexico and Utah
|
1860
|
Map
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New Mexico; Utah; Arizona; Colorado
|
Map of a reconnaissance of the Black Hills
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1874
|
Map
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The Dakotas; Wyoming; Montana
|
Map to illustrate Mr Kane's Travels in the territory of the Hudson's Bay Company
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1859
|
Map
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Canada; Oregon
|
Memoirs of a pioneer
|
c.1929
|
Pamphlet; Journal
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Wyoming; Kansas; Utah
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Memorandum and diary of J. Clyman
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1840-1841
|
Diary; Journal
|
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Message from the President of the United States ... communicating a report of an expedition led by Lieutenant Albert on the upper Arkansas and through the country of the Camanche Indians in the fall of the year 1845...
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c.1846
|
Journal
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Arkansas
|
[Mounted photograph of Christopher Carson]
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c.1860
|
Photograph
|
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Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard, a native of Clearfield County, PA. Who spent five years in trapping for furs, trading with the Indians, &c. &c., of the Rocky Mountains
|
1839
|
Rare Book
|
Canada
|
A narrative of events and difficulties in the colonization of Oregon, and the settlement of California…
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1852
|
Pamphlet
|
Oregon; California
|
Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky mountains in the year 1842: and to Oregon and north California in the years 1843-44
|
1847
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Oregon; California; Kansas; Utah
|
Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the pioneer west, 1819
|
1915
|
Pamphlet
|
Illinois; Ohio; Kentucky; Indiana; Pennsylvania
|
National map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
|
1867
|
Map
|
USA
|
New map; Gold in the Black Hills, with explanatory notes and extracts from official reports, with laws appended upon the subject of mines and mining
|
1876
|
Pamphlet
|
The Dakotas; Wyoming
|
Northern Wiskonsan: a description of the northern part of this territory
|
1843
|
Pamphlet
|
Wisconsin
|
Notes of a sporting expedition in the far west of Canada, 1847
|
1898
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Canada
|
Official map of the territory of Arizona compiled from surveys, reconnaisances and other sources
|
1880
|
Map
|
Arizona
|
Official map of the Territory of Arizona: with all the recent explorations
|
c.1864
|
Map
|
Arizona
|
The olden time; a monthly publication, devoted to the preservation of documents and other authentic information in relation to the early explorations, and the settlement and improvement of the country around the head of the Ohio. v. 1-2 [Jan. 1846-Dec. 1847]
|
1846-1848
|
Periodical
|
Pennsylvania
|
On the border with Crook
|
1891
|
Rare Book
|
Arizona; Montana; Nebraska; The Dakotas
|
The Oregon trail; sketches of prairie and Rocky-mountain life...Illustrated by Frederic Remington
|
1892
|
Rare Book
|
Oregon; Wyoming; Colorado; Kansas; Nebraska
|
Original photograph of Grizzly Adams and a grizzly bear
|
c.1860
|
Photograph
|
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Panoramic views [of Yellowstone National Park]: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
|
1882
|
Map
|
Wyoming
|
Part of central Wyoming: U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories
|
1882
|
Map
|
Wyoming
|
The personal narrative of James O. Pattie, of Kentucky…
|
1831
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Missouri; California; Colorado; Wyoming; New Mexico; Mexico
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Pioneer life or, Thirty years a hunter. Being scenes and adventures in the life of Philip Tome.
|
1854
|
Rare Book
|
Pennsylvania
|
Punch’s-pocket-book
|
1845
|
Diary; Financial Record
|
|
Recollections of my boyhood
|
1914
|
Rare Book
|
Oregon; Missouri; Idaho; Wyoming; Washington
|
Recollections of my life: fifty years of itinerancy in the Northwest
|
1885
|
Rare Book
|
Minnesota; Ohio; Florida; Tennessee; Wisconsin; Indiana; California; New York; Illinois
|
Reconnaissance of the Zuñi, Little Colorado, and Colorado Rivers
|
1852
|
Map
|
Colorado
|
Report of the committee appointed to inquire whether any, and if any, what, alterations are necessary to be made in the act for establishing trading houses with the Indians, and the several acts supplementary thereto
|
1810
|
Pamphlet
|
Arkansas; Georgia; Illinois; Indiana; Louisiana; Michigan; Mississippi; Ohio; Oklahoma
|
Report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures…
|
1804
|
Pamphlet
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Louisiana; Texas; Arkansas; Kansas; Oklahoma
|
Report of an expedition up the Yellow Stone River, made in 1875
|
1875
|
Pamphlet
|
The Dakotas
|
Report of the exploration of two passes through the Rocky Mountains, in 1858
|
1859
|
Pamphlet
|
Canada
|
[Report of explorations in and about the Big Horn Mountains, and the valleys of the Big Horn, Grey Bull and Stinking Water, and Clark’s Fork, lying west of and between the Big Horn and the main chain of the Rocky Mountains, and thence crossing the main chain to the National Park]
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1881
|
Pamphlet
|
Missouri; Wyoming
|
Report of Lieut. General P.H. Sheridan, dated September 20, 1881, of his expedition through the Big Horn Mountains, Yellowstone National Park, etc.: together with reports of Lieut. Col. J. F. Gregory,... Surgeon W. H. Forwood, and Capt. S. C. Kellogg...
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1882
|
Pamphlet; Journal
|
Wyoming
|
Report of the secretary of war: communicating, in answer to a resolution of the Senate, a report of E. F. Beale of his exploration for a wagon road from Fort Defiance, in New Mexico, to the western borders of California
|
1858
|
Rare Book
|
New Mexico; California
|
Report upon the Colorado River of the West
|
1861
|
Rare Book
|
New Mexico; Utah; California; Mexico
|
Roughing it
|
1872
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Nevada; California
|
The routes and mineral resources of north western Canada
|
1898
|
Rare Book
|
Canada
|
The Russian settlement in California, Fort Ross
|
1896
|
Pamphlet
|
California
|
Saskatchewan and the Rocky Mountains, a diary and narrative of travel, sport, and adventure, during a journey through the Hudson's Bay Company's territories, in 1859 and 1860
|
1875
|
Rare Book; Journal
|
Canada
|
Schoolcraft and Allen--expedition to northwest Indians: letter from the Secretary of War, transmitting a map and report of Lieut. Allen and H.B. [i.e. R.] Schoolcraft’s visit to the northwest Indians in 1832
|
1832
|
Pamphlet
|
Canada; Minnesota
|
Seventy years on the frontier: Alexander Majors' memoir of a lifetime on the border… with a preface by "Buffalo Bill"
|
1893
|
Rare Book
|
Mexico; Nebraska; Colorado; Utah
|
Six weeks on horseback through Yellowstone park
|
1913
|
Rare Book; Correspondence
|
Wyoming
|
Sketch of road from Corinne on the U. P. R. R., Utah Ty. to Fort Shaw, Montana: from sketches and field notes of 1st Lt. J. M. Sanno and Major W. H. Lewis of the 7th US Infty...
|
c.1870
|
Map
|
Utah; Montana
|
Sketch of the routes of Hunt and Stuart
|
1836
|
Map
|
Missouri; Nebraska; The Dakotas; Wyoming; Idaho; Washington; Oregon
|
Sketches of the life and adventures of Jacob Parkhurst
|
1842
|
Rare Book
|
Ohio; Pennsylvania; Kentucky
|
Ten thousand miles of travel, sport and adventure
|
1869
|
Rare Book
|
|
Three years among the Indians and Mexicans
|
1846
|
Pamphlet
|
Missouri; New Mexico; Montana
|
A thrilling narrative of the horrible sufferings and miraculous escape of Samuel Brown...
|
1852
|
Pamphlet
|
Iowa
|
Tracks and trails, or, incidents in the life of a Minnesota territorial pioneer
|
1931
|
Pamphlet
|
Minnesota; Illinois; Mississippi
|
Travels and experiences in America with army, and Indian reminiscences
|
c.1890
|
Journal; Diary
|
Oklahoma; Kansas; Missouri; Canada
|
True tales of the plains, by Buffalo Bill
|
1908
|
Rare Book
|
Kansas; The Dakotas; Iowa; Nebraska; Wyoming; Colorado
|
Twenty years on the trap line. Being a collection of revised camp notes written at intervals during a twenty years experience in trapping.
|
1891
|
Rare Book
|
Iowa; Minnesota; The Dakotas
|
[Two maps from 'Railroad to the Pacific: northern route: its general character, relative merits, etc.']
|
1854
|
Map
|
|
[Two maps taken from 'Narrative of an expedition to the shores of the Arctic Sea, in 1846 and 1847']
|
1850
|
Map
|
Canada
|
Uncle Dudley’s odd hours: western sketches, Indian trail echoes, straws of humor
|
1904
|
Rare Book
|
Minnesota
|
Where to emigrate and why. Homes and fortunes in the boundless West and the sunny South... with a complete history and description of the Pacific railroad
|
1869
|
Rare Book
|
California; Oregon; Washington; Alaska; Idaho; Montana; Arizona; New Mexico; Utah; Colorado; Wyoming; The Dakotas; Nebraska; Kansas; Minnesota; Iowa; Missouri; Wisconsin; Michigan; Illinois; Virginia; North Carolina; South Carolina; Georgia; Alabama; Mississippi; Tennessee; Kentucky; Texas; Louisiana; Arkansas
|
Wild life in the far west; personal adventures of a border mountain man…
|
1872
|
Rare Book
|
California; Mexico; Arizona
|
The Yosemite guide-book: a description of the Yosemite Valley and the adjacent region of the Sierra Nevada, and of the big trees of California
|
1870
|
Rare Book; Map
|
California; Nevada
|