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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1879) is a work of travel literature by British explorer Isabella Bird. Adventurous from a young age, Bird gained a reputation as a writer and photographer interested in nature and the stories and cultures of people around the world. A bestselling author and the first woman inducted into the Royal Geographical Society, Bird is recognized today as a pioneering woman whose contributions to travel writing, exploration,...
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They had settled a bloody score and put the turncoat McAfferty to rest in the snowbound Rockies. Slowly, painfully, the wounded Paddock and Scratch found their way back to the Crow village, where they were welcomed as brother and son. The people of Chief Arapooesh offered rest, healing, and home to the mountain men. Then a misunderstanding over a beautiful Crow woman drove the friends apart, propelling Scratch into the unforgiving wilderness on a...
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Western frontier library volume 15
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In 1842, following the doctor's orders for a change of climate, William Thomas Hamilton found himself accompanying a party of trappers on a year-long expedition. Heading into the wild, Hamilton would prove himself to be a fast learner, as adept with a firearm as with sign language: this early experience would be the making of him. As the nineteenth century progressed, along with many other trappers, Hamilton found himself drawn into the Indian Wars...
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Western frontier library volume 60
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University of Oklahoma Press
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English
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Western frontier library volume 5
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Univ. of Oklahama Press
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[ca. 1990]
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English
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Western frontier library volume 7
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1956]
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English
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Washington Irving and his nephew John Treat Irving accompanied Indian Commissioner Henry L. Ellsworth and his party on a tour of the Southern Great Plains in the fall of 1832 among the Osage and Pawnee tribes. The tour was an ususually well-recorded journey.
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Western Frontier Library volume 3
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1954]
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English
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Western frontier library volume 9
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University of Oklahoma Press
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[1957]
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English
