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1) Women's diaries of the westward journey

Series

Description

Includes "writings of more than a hundred women" who experienced the "trip across the continent." Revised edition includes material on "young girls ... between eight and sixteen for whom the monumental crossing was a lark."

2) Best of Covered wagon women

Pub. Date

c2008

3) Bound for Montana: diaries from the Bozeman Trail

Pub. Date

c2004

4) Best of Covered wagon women, volume II: emigrant girls on the overland trails

Pub. Date

c2010

5) The lost trappers: a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short description of California. Also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried...

Author

Coyner, David H

Series

A Rio Grande classic

Pub. Date

[1969]

6) Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's lost Pacific empire : a story of wealth, ambition, and survival

Author

Stark, Peter

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

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In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeleton in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon...