18 books like Narrative of the adventures of Zenas Leonard
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
A series of annotated reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel: descriptive of the Indians and social and economic conditions in the middle and far West, during the period of early American settlement, Edited with notes, introduction, index, etc. The 32 volumes of reprints include 2 volumes of indexes. Some of the reprints are offered separately on this website, and…
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The adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A.
While engaged in writing an account of the grand enterprise of Astoria, it was my practice to seek all kinds of oral information connected with the subject. Nowhere did I pick up more interesting particulars than at the table of Mr. John Jacob Astor; who, being the patriarch of the fur trade in the United States, was accustomed to have at his board various persons of adventurous turn, some of…
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The Hudson Bay Company
The author's first-hand account of the first 3 or 4 years of his career with the Hudson's Bay Company during the early part of the 1800's. Includes personal narratives of his day-to-day adventures, duties to "the Company", personal trials and tribulations in the far north country of Canada, trips and expeditions, and several accounts of his hunting and fishing excursions - all before the age of…
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Three years in California [1846-1849]
Walter Colton (1797-1851) of Vermont had a career as clergyman and journalist before sailing to California as naval chaplain of the Congress. In July 1846, Commodore Stockton named him alcalde of Monterey, a post to which he was elected a few months later. He remained in California until 1849, using his time to found the state's first newspaper and building its first schoolhouse. Three years in…
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Life on the plains and among the diggings
Born in Aurora, New York, Alonzo Delano (1806-1874) moved on to the Midwest as a teenager. July 1848 found him a consumptive Ottawa, Illinois, storekeeper, and he joined a local California Company. He remained in the West after the Gold Rush, winning fame as an early California humorist. Life on the plains and among the diggings (1857) is based largely on letters from Delano published in Ottawa…
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California and Oregon trail
Presents accounts of a young man's travels on the Oregon Trail and his sojourn with the Oglala Indians.
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Eldorado Or Adventures In Path Of Empire
Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was already a well-established writer when he traveled to California as special correspondent for the New York Tribune in the summer of 1849. On his return to New York, Taylor established himself not only as one of America's great travel writers but as a true man of letters, producing distinguished novels and poems as well as nonfiction for the next quarter century.…
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Ghosts
Reveals changing perceptions of ghosts at different social levels from the Reformation through to the twentieth century in Britain and America. This five-volume set focuses on the key published debates that emerged in each century, and illustrates the range of literary formats that reported or discussed ghosts.
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Presidents for Kids
TIME For Kids presents a complete overview of our nation's chief executives from George Washington to the newly elected 45th president!Did you know that James Monroe was the first president to appear without a wig in public? Or that George W. Bush appointed the first African-American secretary of state? Presidents of the United States invites the reader inside the White House to discover…
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The trail book
In the New York Museum of Natural History, two children discover displays that come to life and admit them into a series of exciting adventures that include talking animals and magical travels through the vast landscapes of the pre-Columbian continent. Along the way, the children discover the lifeways of the ancient Native Americans and the natural worlds they inhabited, as well as the impact on…
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An overland journey
The following letters, as is generally known, were written to The New York Tribune during a journey through Kansas, Utah, and California, last summer.
No one can be more conscious than the writer that they present the slightest possible claims to literary merit or enduring interest. Their place is among the thousand ephemeral productions of the press on which the reading public, if good-natured,…
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Away in the wilderness
On a beautiful summer evening, not many years ago, a man was seen to ascend the side of a little mound or hillock, on the top of which he lingered to gaze upon the wild scenery that lay stretched out before him. The man wore the leathern coat and leggings of a North American hunter, or trapper, or backwoodsman; and well did he deserve all these titles, for Jasper Derry was known to his friends as…
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A diary in America
"First appeared in June 1839...in three volumes, with three supplementary volumes appearing later in the year... In preparing this edition...I have used both the first and second series."
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Stories of American life and adventure
The principal aim of this book is to make the reader acquainted with American life and manners in other times. The history of life has come to be esteemed of capital importance, but it finds, as yet, small place in school instruction. The stories and sket.
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American notes
An account of America from Rudyard Kipling while visiting San Francisco in the late 1800s.
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The return of little big man
Only white man to survive the Battle of Little Bighorn, the Indian-raised Jack Cabb describes his subsequent adventures. He bodyguards saloon owner Wild Bill Hickock, rides in Europe with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show and acts as Sitting Bull's interpreter, witnessing his murder. A sequel to the 1964 Little Big Man.
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Jubal Sackett
In Jubal Sackett, the second generation of Louis L'Amour's great American family pursues a destiny in the wilderness of a sprawling new land. Jubal Sackett's urge to explore drove him westward, and when a Natchez priest asks him to undertake a nearly impossible quest, Sackett ventures into the endless grassy plains the Indians call the Far Seeing Lands. He seeks a Natchez exploration party and…
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Astoria
In 1811 a group of American traders built a fort at the mouth of the Columbia River, named Fort Astoria in honor of its financier, John Jacob Astor. Envisioned as the spur of a fur-trading empire, by 1813 the project was a business failure and the fort was surrendered to the British. But in its short life Astoria rendered incalculable benefits to public understanding of the Great Northwest. The…
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