This plain-spoken account of two hunters who spent a winter roaming the wilds of Maine in 1877 is a deeply insightful ac......more
This historical biography of John Alden, one of the pilgrims who founded Plymouth Colony, was commissioned by his descen......more
"...the vast unexplored region before us will [not] yield its secrets to a single traveller, but rather [...] they will ......more
"The Baghdad was a terrible ship: rats and cockroaches swarmed to such an unprecedented extent that they must have added......more
"...the Christians had been again driven out of Uganda, and in the king’s name implored the assistance of the British, o......more
"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find t......more
Sir John Hawkins was a naval commander and privateer during the Elizabethan era in the 16th century, who explored swathe......more
Robert Falcon Scott led an expedition to the Antarctic aboard a ship named Discovery, which resulted in the successful c......more
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This lively and detailed biography of Daniel Boone celebrates his pioneering spirit as a frontiersman in colonial-era Am......more
Daniel Gookin was a pioneering settler who resided in Virginia and Massachusetts, taking an interest in and writing abou......more
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J. Frank Norfleet was a Texas rancher who fell victim to a gang of charismatic confidence men - rather than accept his f......more
"The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here i......more
"The customs of all countries are strange to untrained eyes, and one of the most interesting mysteries of my life here i......more
Originally published in 1926, Twenty Years Hunting and Fishing in the Great Smoky Mountains is a vivid, firsthand accoun......more
Roald Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer whose team were the first to reach the South Pole - this is his astonishing stor......more
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Ibn Battúta was a geographer and traveller who spent decades roaming distant lands; these are his journeys, translated t......more
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This popular guide to Minnesota’s canoe country from Rainy Lake east to Lake Superior tells of famous explorers, the gre......more
The restless land hunger that drew thousands of men into the Boomer Movement to open the "Oklahoma" district of Indian T......more
The Log from the Sea of Cortez is an English-language book written by American author John Steinbeck and published in 19......more
This standard general biography of Champlain, the founder of Canada, was issued previously in the famous Makers of Canad......more
William A. Settle, Jr. has, for a number of years, trailed the James brothers through the columns of old newspapers and ......more
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"The world is bobbing around," said Sam Bass the day he died. The day was Sunday, July 21, 1878--Sam’s twenty-seventh bi......more
Charles Eastman, or Hakadah, as his Sioux relatives and fellow tribesmen knew him, as a full-blooded Indian boy learned ......more
This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and s......more
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Chief Victorio of the Warm Springs Apache has recounted the turbulent life of his people between 1876 and 1886. This eye......more
In an era and an area notable for badmen and gunslingers, John Wesley Hardin was perhaps the most notorious. Considered ......more
Bill Sublette (1799-1845) led two lives. Renowned as a hardy mountain man, he ranged the Missouri, Big Horn, Yellowstone......more
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Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was one of the most notorious pirates ever to plague the Atlantic coast. He wa......more
Of all firsthand accounts of lawlessness in the old Southwest, none is more fascinating than Pat F. Garrett’s The Authen......more
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A classic of Native American literature and US history, the autobiography of the Sauk warrior Black Hawk (Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-S......more
On October 12, 1972, a plane carrying a team of young rugby players crashed into the remote, snow-peaked Andes. Out of t......more
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Knighted in 1911 for distinguished service as a British foreign officer, hanged five years later for high treason to the......more
Amelia s life, from childhood until she flew off into the great beyond, is told by her sister and close friend, Muriel. ......more
Reprint of the long out-of-print 1943 book, the definitive work on Radisson and Des Groseilliers, with an additional, en......more
What Jesse James was to the United States, Lampi o was to Brazil, and then some. With a band that at times numbered a hu......more
Warrior in Two Camps is the biography of Ely S. Parker, the first native American to serve as commissioner of Indian Aff......more
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In the saga of early western exploration a young Shoshoni Indian girl named Sacajawea is famed as a guide and interprete......more
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In this classic of western Americana, George Frederick Ruxton, who died in St. Louis in 1848 at the youthful age of twen......more
Dispelling the clouds of romance and legend that have surrounded Pocahontas throughout the more than two centuries since......more
This is the major literary achievement of a sensitive, gifted man. The author is a Yaqui Indian, a railroad gandy dancer......more
"Doctor! Compadre! Adios!" with these words passed a wiry little man who has become a legend of the Old West. Much has b......more
Leon Metz has pieced together, for the first time, all that is known of John Selman, a shadowy figure in Texas and New M......more
The rollicking history of a dreaded real-life figure in the folklore of the Mississippi backwoods Thanks to the subject ......more
Dismissed as a gaudy liar by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pi......more
This is a reprint of a previously published book. It profiles three generations of oil tycoons based in Texas....more
Born during the American Revolution, Williams was a child of the early frontier. In his young manhood he became an itine......more
It was the best times of my life, and it was the worst times. Father said, justice is in the afterlife, in this life, th......more
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On September 5, 1886, the entire nation rejoiced as the news flashed from the Southwest that the Apache war leader Geron......more
Carlos Montezuma (1866-1923) was one of the great Native American crusaders for Indian rights in the early twentieth cen......more
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Manuel Antonio Chaves’ life straddled three eras of New Mexican history: he was born (1818) at the tag end of the Spanis......more
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying W......more
This is a major historical biography of the great Indian figure from the Revolutionary War period. Kelsay calls Joseph B......more
Kathleen Rice was an inspiring woman who lived ahead of her time. Born in St. Marys, Ontario, she graduated as a gold me......more
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Syria: The Desert and the Sown presents a unique and sensitive picture of the Syrian people whilst under the rule of the......more