books about: frontiersmen

books about: frontiersmen

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Frontiersmen

Frontiersmen in Blue: The United States Army and the Indian, 1848-1865

Robert M. Utley

University of Nebraska Press, 1991

Amazing Undertaking
In this book Robert Utley describes in significant detail the operations of the United States and Volunteer Armies in the American West. Until this book I never quite grasped the magnitude of the problem involved, the competing vested interests, the vast distances ...

The Mountain Men: The Dramatic History and Lore of the First Frontiersmen

George Laycock

The Lyons Press, 2006

Be warned, this is a teaser.
If you're interested in the lore of mountain men, then this book is for you. However, be warned that it contains just enough material to tease you and then, you'll want to continue your research with other books. This is the book that hooked me (well this and the ...

The Frontiersmen

Allan Eckert

Domain, 1984

My Favorite Book
I have read this book twice, something I took the time to do only once before (Tolkien, of course). Forget Daniel Boone. Eckert skillfully relates how Simon Kenton once literally picked a wounded Daniel Boone up and threw him at a charging group of Indians to save them ...

Jim Bridger, the Mountain Man (Gallery of Great Americans: Frontiersmen of America)
Matthew G. Grant

Creative Education; distributed by Childrens Press, Chicago, 1973

A brief biography of the nineteenth-century trapper, scout, and explorer who helped open the West to settlers.

Kentucky Frontiersmen: The Adventures of Henry Ware, Hunter and Border Fighter

Joseph A. Altsheler, Nathaniel Kenton

Voyageur Publishing Company (TN), 1988

Altsheler: Great American Author
Altsheler can paint a picture with words like no other author can. He is so descriptive with his words that you feel that you are right there in the midst of the story with the same feelings and senses as the protagonist, Henry Ware. The Kentucky Frontiersmen is a ...

The Frontiersmen: A Narrative

Allan W. Eckert

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2001

The Frontiersmen
I first became acquainted with Mr. Eckert's books a few years ago while shopping for a gift for my son-in-law who loves local history and someone recommended one of his books. I took it home and while wrapping it, read a page. I was hooked, I went out and bought one ...

The Frontiersmen : A Narrative
Allan W. Eckert

Little, Brown and Company, 1967

Frontiersmen of the Old West Card Game (Old West Card Games)

U.S. Games Systems, 1998

Thirteen pioneers who personified the spirit and excitement of the Old West. Pictures and brief historical facts are on each card. Each deck contains 54 cards.

Simon Kenton: His Life And Period 1755-1836
Edna Kenton

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007

John Bidwell and California: The Life and Writings of a Pioneer, 1841-1900

Michael J. Gillis, Michael F. Magliari

Arthur H. Clark Company, 2004

A unique view of the nineteenth-century American West
The collaborative effort of Michael J. Gillis and Michael F. Maglian, John Bidwell And California: The Life And Writings Of A Pioneer 1841-1900 is an informative biography that draws upon pioneer John Bidwell's own writings about the time he lived in (which included ...

A Dictionary of the Old West First Edition 1977
Peter Watts

Alfred A. Knopf, 1977

Requiem for a People: The Rogue Indians and the Frontiersmen (Northwest Reprints)

Stephen Dow Beckham

Oregon State University Press, 1996

Requiem for a People
Professor Beckham's presents a terse and lucid account of the displacement of the natives of the Rogue Valley and surrounding areas. I grew up in the Rogue Valley and in fact my family homesteaded there, although they began a couple of decades after the natives had ...