David Sievert Lavender

Follows the achievements of the explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and the other members of their expedition.

The Story of the American fur trade has been told many times from different viewpoints, but David Lavender was the first to place it within the overall contest for empire between Britain and the United States. Lavender relates the story of men such as John Jacob Astor and Ramsay Crooks, who competed with Britain's Hudson's Bay Company for fur resources of the Great Lakes region and the upper Missouri River country. Within this framework of contest and competition, Lavender shows how the American Fur Company learned to exploit the needs and wants of Indian tribes to gain a superior economic position over the British. The brutal and bloody rivalry helped Ramsay Crooks develop the techniques for transporting furs, supplying trappers, and selling pelts that made fur trapping such an integral economic activity in early U.S history.

The true story of the Santa Fe Trail and the explorers, traders, and fighters who travelled westward.

The Santa Fe Trail extended from the American settlements in westernmost Missouri to the Mexican town of Santa Fe in present-day New Mexico. Its path followed some of the wildest, most desolate yet beautiful country in America.A spirited and graphic account of life along the Santa Fe Trail, this book includes the history of the land before the famous trail, the lure of Santa Fe, the dangers of surveying and traveling, the cattle drives and the people who trailed west, the Indians, the army, the women, the railroad, and the freighters during its long and colorful life.

Discusses the culture, history, and society of the Pueblos.

A survey of the history of the American West, from ancient times through the beginning of the 20th century. Uses original art and photographs from the period.

This is "not only a history of the Oregon Trail up to the Gold Rush days, but a general picture of western exploration by Indians, mountain men, priests, fur-hunters, and others."

It wasn't easy being Wonder Woman, but executive Holly Johnson had no choice -- she was a powerful presence at the office, an unstoppable force on the racquetball court, and too much woman for the men she knew... until Dick DeWitt came into her life. Brilliant at corporate reorganization, Dick took over her company and offered Holly a big career opportunity -- and her greatest challenge as a woman. A battle of wills and wits ensued. They were playing for the highest stakes this time, a prize both wanted to win. And to the victors the spoils were happiness and love.

"After Great Britain acquired ... Cyprus, an occasional engineer made sporadic attempts to rediscover the old [copper] mines, dormant since the Romans had abandoned them fifteen centuries earlier. ... book tells of Charles Godfrey Gunther's discovery of the prospects and of his long struggle to bring them into production in a region where modern tehcnological skills were almost unknown." -- p. v.

The author traces the range's history, focusing attention on the period that began in 1859, following the first gold strikes. He describes the men and movements, the growth of cities, the industrial development, and the social life and customs.