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Weston NaefPublication Details
BookJ. Paul Getty Museum2008Availability
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Meriwether Lewis
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Thomas C. Danisi & John C. Jackson ; foreword by Robert J. Moore, JrPublication Details
BookPrometheus Books2009Description
October 11, 2009 marks the bicentennial of Meriwether Lewis’s death. They have re-examined the original Lewis and Clark documents and searched through obscure and overlooked sources to reveal a wealth of fascinating new information on the enigmatic character and life of Meriwether Lewis. Instead of focusing on the Lewis and Clark expedition, the authors concentrate on what Lewis was doing immediately before and after the journey through Western territory. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F592.7.L42 D36 2009 AVAILABLE
Mary Austin And The American West
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Susan Goodman, Carl DawsonPublication Details
BookUniversity of California Press2008Description
Mary Austin (1868-1934)–eccentric, independent, and unstoppable–was twenty years old when her mother moved the family west. By focusing on one extraordinary woman’s life, Mary Austin and the American West tells the larger story of the emerging importance of California and the Southwest to the American consciousness. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS3501.U8 Z596 2008 AVAILABLE
Painting The Wild Frontier : The Art And Adventures Of George Catlin
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Susanna ReichPublication Details
BookClarion Books2008Description
George Catlin is one of America’s best-known painters, famous for his iconic portraits of Native Americans. Generously illustrated with archival prints and photos and Catlin’s own magnificent paintings, here is a rollicking, accessible biography that weaves meticulously researched history into a fascinating frontier and jungle adventure story. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 C357r 2008 AVAILABLE
Devil’s Gate : Brigham Young And The Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
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David RobertsPublication Details
Book1st Simon & Schuster hardcover edSimon & Schuster2008Links
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The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. The story of the Mormon handcart tragedy has never before been told in full despite its stunning human drama: At least five times as many people died in the Mormon tragedy as died in the more famous Donner Party disaster. Brigham Young and others in the Mormon leadership failed to heed the abundant signs of impending catastrophe, including warnings from other Mormon elders in the East and Midwest, where the journey began. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F593 .R54 2008 AVAILABLE
The Trouble Begins At 8 : A Life Of Mark Twain In The Wild, Wild West
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by Sid FleischmanPublication Details
Book1st edGreenwillow Books2008Description
So begins Sid Fleischman’s ramble-scramble biography of the great American author and wit, who started life in a Missouri village as a barefoot boy named Samuel Clemens. Samuel Clemens adopted his pen name in a hotel room in San Francisco and promptly made a jumping frog (and himself) famous. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS CHILD LIT (LOWER) 920 T969t 2008 AVAILABLE
Best Of Covered Wagon Women
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edited by Kenneth L. Holmes ; with a new introduction by Michael L. TatePublication Details
BookUniversity of Oklahoma Press2008Description
The diaries and letters of women who braved the overland trails during the great nineteenth-century westward migration are treasured documents in the study of the American West. For too long these diaries and letters were secreted away in attics and basements or collected dust on the shelves of manuscript collections across the country. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F591 .B525 2008 AVAILABLE
On The Fireline : Living And Dying With Wildland Firefighters
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Matthew DesmondPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2007Links
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Along with exploring how firefighters become acclimated to the hazards of the job, On the Fireline candidly examines the more everyday facets of their lives as well—we hear their jokes, witness their fights, and observe the close bonds they form while waiting for the next alarm to sound. Matthew Desmond’s revealing and often gripping book is truly one of a kind: an immersion into a dangerous world, a moving portrait of the lives of young people, a sophisticated analysis of a high-risk profession—and a captivating read. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) SD421.24 .D47 2007 AVAILABLE
Hard Road West : History & Geology Along The Gold Rush Trail
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Keith Heyer MeldahlPublication Details
BookUniversity of Chicago Press2007Links
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He guides us through a corrugated landscape of sawtooth mountains, following the meager streams that served as lifelines through an arid land, all the way to California itself, where colliding tectonic plates created breathtaking scenery and planted the gold that lured travelers west in the first place. The reader comes away with both an appreciation for the arduous cross-continental wagon journey and an understanding of the events that created such a vast and difficult landscape.??Library Journal (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F593 .M479 2007 AVAILABLE
Thomas Moran’s West : Chromolithography, High Art, And Popular Taste
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Joni L. KinseyPublication Details
BookUniversity Press of Kansas2006Links
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Watercolor images of Yellowstone Park painted in the early 1870s by artist Thomas Moran shifted America’s gaze westward. Whereas previously published images of the West had been black-and-white engravings, Moran’s chromolithographs had the vivid beauty of high art but could be acquired by individuals who couldn’t afford originals. Both a visual feast and an authoritative treatise, Thomas Moran’s West gives us breath-taking images of unspoiled wilderness as it sheds new light on how artistic portrayals of the West contributed to our national identity. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F722 .K47 2006 AVAILABLE
Doc Holliday : The Life And Legend
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Gary L. RobertsPublication Details
BookJohn Wiley & Sons2006Links
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Acclaim for Doc Holliday “Splendid . His exhaustively researched and beautifully written Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend reveals a pathetically ill and tortured figure, but one of such intense loyalty to Wyatt Earp that it brought him limping to the O.K. Roberts manifested an interest in Doc Holliday at a very early age, and he has devoted these past thirty-odd years to serious and detailed research in the development and writing of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. The world knows Holliday as Doc Holliday. –Susan McKey Thomas, cousin of Doc Holliday and coauthor of In Search of the Hollidays (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F594.H74 R63 2006 AVAILABLE
Imagining The African American West
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Blake AllmendingerPublication Details
BookUniversity of Nebraska Press2005Links
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Blake Allmendinger addresses this void in literary and cultural studies with Imagining the African American West?the first comprehensive study of African American literature on the early frontier and in the modern urban American West. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (UPPER LEVEL) PS271 .A434 2005 AVAILABLE
L.A. Huffman : Photographer Of The American West
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Larry Len PetersonPublication Details
Book2nd edMountain Press Pub. Co2005Links
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Arriving in Fort Keogh, Montana Territory, in 1879, ten years before Montana would become a state, Huffman realized the importance of recording the end of the open range, the untamed western landscapes, the plains Indian, and the last of the buffalo herds. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS OVERSIZE (UPPER) F595 .P485 2005 AVAILABLE
The Colonel And Little Missie : Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, And The Beginnings Of Superstardom In America
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Larry McMurtryPublication Details
BookSimon & Schuster2005Links
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LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) GV1821.B8 M38 2005 AVAILABLE
Buffalo Bill’s America : William Cody And The Wild West Show
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Louis S. WarrenPublication Details
Book1st edAlfred A. Knopf2005Description
Warren reveals, the show company came to represent America itself, its dazzling mix of races sprung from a frontier past, welded into a thrilling performance, and making their way through the world via the modern technologies of railroad, portable electrical generator, telephones, and brilliantly colored publicity?an entrancing vision of the frontier-born, newly mechanized, polyglot United States in the Gilded Age. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) F594.B94 W37 2005 AVAILABLE
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