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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Adventurers & Explorers

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Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Zebulon Pike, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West

Edited by Matthew L. Harris and Jay H. Buckley

In life and in death, fame and glory eluded Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779–1813). The ambitious young military officer and explorer, best known for a mountain peak that he neither scaled nor named, was destined to live in the shadows of more famous contemporaries—explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. This collection of thought-provoking essays rescues Pike from his undeserved obscurity. It does so by providing a nuanced assessment of Pike and his actions within the larger context of American imperial ambition in the time of Jefferson.

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

American Trailblazer

by Robin Varnum

In July 1536, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490–1559) and three other survivors walked 2,500 miles from Texas, across northern Mexico, to Sonora and ultimately to Mexico City. Cabeza de Vaca’s account of this astonishing journey is now recognized as one of the great travel stories of all time. Robin Varnum’s biography, the first single-volume cradle-to-grave account of the explorer’s life in eighty years, tells the rest of the story.

Jim Bridger

Jim Bridger

Trailblazer of the American West

by Jerry Enzler

Tapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” This is the definitive story of an extraordinary life.
 

Wanderer on the American Frontier

Wanderer on the American Frontier

The Travels of John Maley, 1808–1813

by John Maley

Edited by F. Andrew Dowdy

Wanderer on the American Frontier makes the complete journal available for the first time, allowing readers to follow a contemporary of Lewis and Clark on his journey through the Ohio, Mississippi, and Red River valleys, and to reassess the account’s authenticity.
 

Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Weapons of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

by Jim Garry

The mix of arms carried by the expedition extended beyond rifles and muskets to include pistols, knives, espontoons, a cannon, and blunderbusses. Each chapter focuses on one of the major types of weapons and weaves accounts from the expedition journals with the author’s knowledge gained from field-testing the muskets and rifles he describes.

Off Trail

Off Trail

Finding My Way Home in the Colorado Rockies

by Jane Parnell

In the tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Tracy Ross’s The Source of All Things, Parnell’s mountaineering memoir shows us how, by pushing ourselves to the limits of our physical endurance and by confronting our deepest fears, we can become whole again.
 

Portrait of a Prospector

Portrait of a Prospector

Edward Schieffelin's Own Story

by Edward Schieffelin

Edited by R. Bruce Craig

Collecting the words of an exceptional figure who embodied the western frontier, Craig offers readers insight into the mentality of prospector-adventurers during an age of discovery and of limitless potential.

Travels in North America, 1832–1834

Travels in North America, 1832–1834

A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

by Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied

Edited by Marsha V. Gallagher

Featuring nearly fifty color and black-and-white illustrations—including several of Karl Bodmer’s best landscapes and portraits—this succinct record of their expedition invites new audiences to experience an enthralling journey across the early American West.

Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico

Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico

The Travel Diaries and Autobiography of Dr. Rowland Willard

by Rowland Willard

Edited by Joy L. Poole

This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s.

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure

by Daniel Ellis Conner

Edited by Donald J. Berthrong and Odessa Davenport

Joseph Reddeford Walker and the Arizona Adventure offers a superb chapter in the history of the West. Included are tales of the early Apache wars in New Mexico and Arizona; “The Betrayal of Mangas Coloradas,” with Conner’s eyewitness account of the Apache chief’s death; the emigrant trains to California; early settlement; mining operations, in “The Perils of Prospecting,” and countless episodes of action and violence that make fictional accounts pale in comparison.

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