"Pioneers Of the American West" comes in four volumes, in chronological order. The history of the American West is the story of trail-makers, pioneers in every sense of the word. Blazing the way for all, came the men and women who explored and ploughed and planted the wilderness. Many of the most stirring of these chronicles have passed out of print and are now inaccessible even to the painstaking student. It is from among these almost forgotten, yet vital records that this series is based upon. Volume I. traces the trail of adventures from 1804 of "The Unbroken Wild, from the journals of Lewis and Clark", Jim Beckwourth from 1824, the Pathfinder In the High Rockies, of John C. Fremont in 1842, grizzly fighter Hugh Glass "The Wilderness Hunter" in 1845, and "At Fort Laramie" in 1846.