Rocky Mountain Rendezvous – A History of the Fur Trade Rendezvous 1825 – 1840
An all-new redesigned edition of the original classic on the fur-trading rendezvous that took place from 1825 to 1840 in the Central Rockies. These rendezvous were originally commercial gatherings where furs were traded for necessities such as traps, guns, horses, and other supplies. But more and more they became rich social events at which all kinds of human emotion were on display.
ISBN: 1-58685-756-8
240 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Gibbs Smith, 2005
Rocky Mountains Plants and Animals – Coloring Book
Rugged mountain peaks, alpine streams, and heavily forested areas are home to the many plants and animals that inhabit the Rocky Mountain region in North America. Illustrator Dot Barlow captures the area’s beautiful vistas and wildlife in 27 accurately rendered, ready-to-color illustrations.
ISBN: 978-0-486-43045-4
30 Pages
Softback
8 1/4″ x 10 7/8″
Dover Publications, 2004
Rotting Face – Smallpox and the American Indian
An event that forever changed the face of the west.
On April 17, 1837, the steamboat St. Peter’s pulled away from a St. Louis and began it annual journey up the Missouri River. Its mission was to deliver supplies to fur trading posts on the upper Missouri.
On that spring day, no one aboard the St. Peter’s could have imagined the effect the voyage would have on Western history and the American Indian culture. The steamboat carried a shipment not listed on its manifest — a disease so horrible Indian parents sometimes killed their children to save them from terrible agony. Its scientific name was Variola major. Its common name was smallpox. Many natives knew it as “Rotting Face.”
R. G. Robertson details how the smallpox epidemic of 1837-1838 altered the political and social structure of Native American tribes. In less than a year the disease virtually destroyed the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arickara cultures. It claimed entire villages of Blackfeet, stripping that proud nation of its power and wealth, leaving it too weak to stop invasions by other tribes and white settlers.
Before it ran out of human fuel, Rotting Face claimed an estimated 20,000 natives, doing more damage to the Northern Plains tribes in one year than all the military expeditions ever sent against American Indians.
ISBN – 0-87004-419-2
329 Pages
Hardback
6.25″ x 9.25″
Caxton Press, 2001
Sacagawea’s Son – The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau
Sacagawea’s Son: The Life of Jean Baptiste Charbonneau is the exciting, surprising, and sometimes poignant story of a boy born to adventure. At the age of two months, Baptiste experienced the first of many exploits when his parents, the Shoshoni woman Sacagawea and French Canadian trapper Toussaint Charbonneau, took him along on Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery expedition. Captain Clark called him Pomp, “my little dancing boy.” Many people have heard of baby Pomp and his famous journey, but the rest of his life story has been largely untold — until now.
Educated in St. Louis by Captain Clark, Baptiste went on to live in a royal palace in Europe and to speak many languages. Returning to the United States, he headed west to become a mountain man and scout alongside Jim Beckwourth, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Jim Bridger, and Kit Carson. During America’s war with Mexico, he helped lead the Mormon Battalion to California, where he later became a prospector during the gold rush.
ISBN – 978-0-87842-432-0
125 pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Mountain Press Publishing Company, 2001
Sacajawea – Guide and Interpreter of Lewis and Clark
Known to schoolchildren as the woman who guided Lewis and Clark through the wilderness to the American Northwest, Sacajawea is a figure of fascinating historical interest. The sister of a Shoshone chief kidnapped by enemy tribesmen, she married a French trader, became a mother, and joined the Lewis and Clark expedition all while she was still a teenager. This book tells the story of this remarkable woman who attempts to assess her rightful place in the history of American Exploration.
ISBN: 978-0-486-42149-0
336 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Dover Publications, 2002
Sage: A Lark’s Story
Told from the perspective of Sage, the Horned Lark, the book offers a delightful bird’s eye view of this unique species, including her appearance, family, habits, survival, and more. The book also shares fun, educational experiments to do at home that will teach you even more about what makes a Horned Lark so special. With Sage’s inviting, informative approach, Sage: A Lark’s Story is sure to make any animal lover even more curious about the world of a bird, and launch a lifelong passion for learning all about them.
ISBN: 978-1491028711
21 Pages
Softback
7″ x 10″
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013
Sagebrush Country – A Wildflower Sanctuary
Sagebrush country is a land of contrasts–a place of desolation and a place of beauty. This field guide explores the elegance of the sagebrush steppe as expressed in the colorful spring and fall flowers and, more subtly, in the wondrous adaptations that enable plants to withstand the extremes so typical of this harsh environment.
ISBN – 978-0-87842-280-7
211 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 3/8″
Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1992
Sam’s Big Deer
Join us on a big adventure! Sam West and his pal Pepper (just call him Pep!) don’t get to go hunting in the big woods with Dad because everyone says they are still too small. But Sam thinks, “I can find a deer,” and that is just what he plans to do!
ISBN: 978-1-59152-163-1
24 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
JSM Inc., 2015
Savage Model 1895, 1899, & 99 Rifles – Volume 2 – Engraved and Special Feature Models
Author of the definitive A Collector’s Guide to the Savage 99 Rifle and Its Predecessors, the Model 1895 and 1899, David Royal now presents the beautiful and elaborately engraved variants of the 99. Although widely perceived as utilitarian, Savage’s Models 1895, 1899, and 99 were often ornamented by gifted artisans. Nine of Savage’s first model, the 1895, were manufactured by Marlin and engraved by their in-house engraver, Conrad Ulrich. Photographs of six of these rifles are included, along with an extensive biography of the Ulrich family of engravers. The Model 1899s were engraved by Enoch Tue and featured a great variety of engraving and a long list of other enhancements. This is considered the heyday of engraved Savages, and all of Tue’s styles are covered here. The Model 99s were available with engraving sporadically until the end of Savage 99 production, and these later iterations are also discussed in detail.
ISBN: 978-0-7643-6478-5
304 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
Schiffer Publishing, 2022
Seaman was the dog that accompanied Lewis & Clark on their expedition to the west.
He originally purchased by Meriwether Lewis for $20 in 1803.
Seaman served as a hunter, retriever, early warning system against Grizzly bears, guard dog and faithful companion to Lewis and Clark.
He measures 6″ from nose to tail. Comes with makeshift collar with his name.
Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) was the first artist to journey into the heart of the Rocky Mountains. He did so as the commissioned expedition artist for William Drummond Stewart (1795-1871), a Scottish nobleman and veteran of a five-year hunting tour in America. Their destination would be the annual fur traders’ rendezvous at Horse Creek, near the present-day border of Idaho and Wyoming.
“This book will set a new scholarly standard for monographs on western art,” said William H. Truettner, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and one of the leading scholars in America on western art. “It will bring to the study of western-art patronage a refinement few others in the field have even approached.”
ISBN – 978-0-88360-105-1
238 Pages
University of Oklahoma Press, 2008
Shinin’ Trails: A Possibles Bag of Fur Trade Trivia
This fantastic book offers an interesting and enjoyable way to discover facts about the fur trade and to learn the history of this important era in our country’s formation and growth.
It may be used as a guide to information about important dates and people of the fur trade, as a source book for campfire and family home games on historical knowledge, as an easy way to check the information espoused by the local “rendezvous expert,” or simply as an easy way to learn the answers to questions that every “mountain man” should know.
ISBN – 0-943604-20-6
105 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Eagle’s View Publishing Company, 1988
Soap Suds Row – The Bold Lives of Army Laundresses, 1802 – 1876
Women have always followed the troops, but military laundresses were the first to be carried on the rolls of the U.S. Army. They traveled and lived alongside the soldiers during two of the most important conflicts in United States history: the Civil War and the war on the western frontier.
A few laundresses made names for themselves. Laundresses who got written up in records, diaries, and newspapers were often involved in colorful or unfortunate circumstances. No, they were not all loose women. Some were; however, most were simply brave, adventurous, and unorthodox women.
They marched with the army for hundreds of miles, carrying their babies and tugging small children behind them. Among the first non-native women on lonely frontier outposts, they waited in frightened huddles in camps and forts for their soldier-husbands to return from dangerous campaigns.
Susie King Taylor, born a slave, taught both black children and soldiers to read and write between washing piles of laundry. A Mexican-American War laundress was eulogized as able to “whip any man, fair fight or foul; shoot a pistol better than anyone; and outplay or out-cheat any gambler.” A well-known laundress from the Indian Wars period, Mrs. Nash, kept a secret that remained undiscovered until her death. Little note was made of laundresses who worked hard day after day, like Maggie Flood, who faced special family challenges on the frontier.
ISBN – 978-1-93714710-5
157 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
High Plains Press, 2016
Soun Tetoken – Nez Perce Boy Tames a Stallion
Thomasma’s account focuses on Soun Tetoken (Silent One), an orphan adopted by the son of Chief Joseph. Against a backdrop of growing racial tensions, the story is told of a speechless boy befriending a stallion and coyote pup and undergoing his ritual initiation into manhood.
The eventual surrender of Chief Joseph and his words, “From where the sun now stands I shall fight no more forever,” are recorded here with unforgettable drama.
ISBN: 188011407-0
262 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1984
South Pass – Gateway to a Continent
Fur Traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the first transcontinental railroad almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass, transforming the American West in a single generation.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-4442-9
325 Pages
Soft Back
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 2014
Steamboat – Legendary Bucking Horse
The Bronc on Wyoming’s License Plate
Candy and Flossie Moulton present the story behind this horse whose likeness is the symbol of Wyoming seen on the state s license plates and as the University of Wyoming logo. The book traces the history of the bucking horse from his youth on the Two Bar outfit of the Swan Land and Cattle Company through his rise to the undisputed World Champion Bucking Horse.
Was Steamboat the horse who “wouldn’t be rode?” Which men climbed aboard the horse? Who is the cowboy atop the horse on the famous logo on the Wyoming license tag? How is Steamboat connected to Cheyenne Frontier Days, the notorious range detective Tom Horn, and the Irwin Brothers Wild West Show?
ISBN – 978-0-931271-19-9
192 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
High Plains Press, 1992
