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James E Sherow
The Chisholm Trail follows McCoy's vision and the effects of the Chisholm Trail from post-Civil War Texas and Kansas to the multimillion-dollar beef industry that remade the Great Plains, the…
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James P. Ronda
In his 1836 account, Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion - a reminder of John Jacob Astor’s failed attempt to…
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Focuses on stories and storytellers. The beginning of the nineteenth century represents a time when America passed into a headlong rush for empire and when ‘the West’ loomed large as…
An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Theodore Roosevelt
Describing in detail the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Pacific following the Louisiana Purchase, this final volume spans the period that saw Kentucky, Tennessee, and Ohio become states; Louisiana…
James E. Sherow
One hundred fifty years ago the McCoy brothers of Springfield, Illinois, bet their fortunes on Abilene, Kansas, then just a slapdash way station. Instead of an endless horizon of prairie…
Donald C. Jackson
Recounts Thomas Jefferson’s role in advocating and shaping the exploration, settlement and development of the trans-Mississippi West. Jackson argues that although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes…
W. Raymond Wood
When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent , and their…
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Hiram Martin Chittenden
Provides a perspective or overall outline of the fur trade that, after nearly a century, remains sound. This book describes the explorers, missionaries, government survey parties, and Indian tribes of…
In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America’s Last Great Places, the Joseph H…
A companion and sequel to the award-winning Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection. This volume includes the finest works featured in the earlier book, along with recent acquisitions…
The essays in this volume are arranged so as to allow a clear understanding of how and why white political supremecy came to be in the early United States.
