My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
By: William Thomas Hamilton
4.17
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Six Years With the Texas Rangers: 1875-1881
By: James B. Gillett
4.14
Format: 171 pages, Kindle Edition
Texas in the nineteenth century was a dangerous place. The Texas Rangers were there to keep people … read more
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2. The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth: Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians
By: James P. Beckwourth
4.16
Format: 347 pages,
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3. Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot: Hugh Monroe's Story of His First Year on the Plains (1919)
By: James Willard Schultz
4.23
Format: 343 pages,
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge… read more
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4. American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon
By: Steven Rinella
3.50
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the host of the Travel Channel's "The Wild Within." A hunt for the American buffalo--an advent… read more
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5. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River, 1810-1813
By: None
3.43
Format: 64 pages,
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6. Three Years in the Klondike (1904)
By: Jeremiah Lynch
3.00
Format: 282 pages,
Jeremiah Lynch was a businessman (and former San Francisco politician) who went to the Klondike in … read more
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7. The Diary of a Forty-Niner
By: Chauncey L. Canfield
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
1849, California. The Gold Rush had begun. 300,000 gold-seekers left their homes, grabbed what they… read more
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8. Crow Killer: The Saga of Liver-Eating Johnson
By: Robert Bunker , Raymond W. Thorp
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Paperback
The movie Jeremiah Johnsonintroduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real… read more
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9. Across The Plains In 1844
By: None , None
3.85
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Catherine Sager's story is among the most gripping firsthand accounts of life in the American west … read more
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10. The Oregon Trail
By: Francis Parkman
3.57
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
Keen observations and a graphic style characterize the author's remarkable record of a vanishing fr… read more
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11. White Squaw: The True Story of Jennie Wiley
By: Arville Wheeler
4.32
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
THE TRUE STORY OF JENNIE WILEY—WHITE SQUAWThomas and Jennie Wiley lived on Walker’s Creek in Bland … read more
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12. Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians
By: Herman Lehmann
4.17
Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition
"Lehmann's memoir is quite fantastic-sounding at times, but is regarded as one of the best of that … read more
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13. The Adventures of Big-Foot Wallace: The Texas Ranger and Hunter
By: John Crittenden Duval
3.85
Format: 216 pages, Kindle Edition
At six foot two inches and two hundred and forty pounds, Big-Foot Wallace cut a formidable figure a… read more
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14. Fifty Years On The Trail: The True Story of John Y. Nelson, Frontiersman, Scout, and Guide
By: John Nelson
4.34
Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition
Frontiersman, military scout, interpreter, guide, police chief, and saloon owner; John Young Nelson… read more
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15. My Sixty Years on the Plains: Trapping, Trading, and Indian Fighting
By: William Thomas Hamilton
4.17
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
By: Fanny Kelly
3.87
Format: 170 pages, Kindle Edition
“I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of host… read more
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"Experience is a great teacher, and we were then in her school, and learned that while hope offers the faintest token of refuge, we pause upon the fearful brink of eternity, and look back for rescue."-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
"Mother! what a world of affection is comprised in that single word; how little do we in the giddy round of youthful pleasure and folly heed her wise counsels. How lightly do we look upon that zealous…"-Fanny Kelly, Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
17. My Life as an Indian: The Story of a Red Woman and a White Man in the Lodges of the Blackfeet (1907)
By: James Willard Schultz
4.43
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
"A unique picture of Indian life on the plains when there was still warfare between the tribes." -A… read more
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18. Adventures of a Mountain Man: The Narrative of Zenas Leonard
By: Zenas Leonard
3.95
Format: 98 pages, Kindle Edition
In the spring of 1830, Leonard, a native of Clearfield, Pennsylvania embarked on an expedition acro… read more
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19. By Ox Team to California: Crossing the Plains in 1860
By: Lavinia Honeyman Porter
4.21
Format: 107 pages, Kindle Edition
“We then determined to use the small remnant of our fortune to provide a suitable outfit for a leng… read more
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20. Journal Of A Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834-1843
By: Osborne Russell
3.83
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1834, Osborne Russell joined an expedition from Boston, under the direction of Nathaniel J. Wyet… read more
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21. Left by the Indians
By: Ethan E. Harris
3.75
Format: 30 pages, Kindle Edition
This is a first-hand account one of the worst wagon train massacres in the Old West. After 45 days … read more
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"They were mounted on horses and were to go ahead and clear the way for us to follow with our wagons. But instead of doing so, the discharged soldiers put spurs to the horses, which belonged to Mr. Va…"-Ethan E. Harris, Left by the Indians
22. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
By: Sarah Raymond Herndon
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more
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23. The Personal Narrative of James O. Pattie of Kentucky
By: James Ohio Pattie
4.14
Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition
James O. Pattie’s Personal Narrative is a prime source for the history of the Southwest during the … read more
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24. Four Years in the Rockies -- the Adventures of Isaac P. Rose--Hunter and Trapper in that Remote Region (1884)
By: James B. Marsh
3.82
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
"The hunters and trappers of the far west were a brave, hardy and adventurous set of men, and they … read more
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25. Our People
By: Jim Hamm
4.68
Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition
Based on the compelling true story of the famous Elm Creek Raid of 1864. During the Civil War, Coma… read more
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26. The Gold Hunters: A First-Hand Picture of Life in California Mining Camps in the Early Fifties
By: John David Borthwick
3.97
Format: 232 pages, Kindle Edition
“I do not know of another story by an actual miner that is so well written and so true to that wond… read more
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27. Forty Years a Fur Trader On the Upper Missouri: The Personal Narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872
By: Charles Larpenteur
3.98
Format: 169 pages, Kindle Edition
"The life-record kept by Charles Larpenteur is one of our most important sources of information con… read more
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28. Across the Plains in 1884
By: Catherine Sager
3.65
Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition
In April 1844 the Sager family took part in the great westward migration and started their journey … read more
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29. Seven Years with the Indians (Expanded, Annotated)
By: Owen P. Dabney
3.83
Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition
When the Ainsleys joined the westward expansion of the U.S. in 1862, they could never have imagined… read more
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30. Surviving Alone
By: Clay Hayes
4.65
Format: 167 pages, Kindle Edition
Alone in the wilds of British Columbia, cut off from family and friends, uncertain of how long he m… read more
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31. The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
By: Stephen Vincent Brennan
3.28
Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition
Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West.The “mountain men” were the hunters and … read more
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