The Truth about Sacajawea
Sacajawea made a great contribution during the travel by The United States Army’s Corps of Discovery and their history making exploration of our continent west of the Mandan/Hidatsa villages to the Pacific Ocean.
She was adept at finding food. She was a symbol to native warriors that the expedition was a peaceful party of travelers. She was helpful as a source of information about the land from the Three Forks area to the Lemhi Valley. However, it is clear that her main contribution was as an interpreter when the expedition was in dire need of horses and a guide to make the critical traverse of the mountains before winter shut them off.
ISBN: 978-1-880114-18-6
96 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Grandview Publishing,1997
The Wild Wyoming Range
The Wyoming Range stands like a dusky silhouette above the sagebrush sea, revealing its splendor only to those who venture off the highway. Its snowy peaks and ridgelines extend nearly a hundred miles from the confluence of the Hoback and Snake Rivers to the headwaters of LaBarge Creek. The mountains highlighted is this book of photographs and essays include not only the Wyoming Range but the Salt River Range, Greys River, and the long, high ridges stretching another fifty miles to the south: Commissary Ridge, the Tunp, and Porcupine Ranges, Absaroka Ridge. In this vast landscape of singular beauty, the Old West lives on.
ISBN: 978-0-9840007-0-8
119 Pages
Hardback
11 1/2″ x 10 3/4″
Laguna Wilderness Press, 2013
The Wise Animal Handbook
A laugh-out-loud book of animal kingdom advice for kids.
ISBN: 978-0-7385-2765-9
32 Pages
Hardback
10″ x 10″
Arcadia Kids, 2017
The Women’s West
The American West looms large in popular imagination — a place where men were rugged nd independent, violent and courageous. In this mythic West all the men were white, and the women were largely absent. The few female actors played supporting roles around the edges of the drama. Molded by the Victorian Cult of True Womanhood, they were passive, dependent , reluctant, and out of place. Men “won” the West. Women, against their better judgement, followed them to this “newly discovered” place and tried to re-create the amenities of the urban East.
ISBN: 978-0-8061-2067-6
323 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
The University of Oklahoma Press, 1987
The Year of Decision 1846
The Year of Decision 1846 tells many fascinating stories of the U.S. explorers who began the western march from the Mississippi to the Pacific, from Canada to the annexation of Texas, California, and the southwest lands from Mexico. It is the penultimate book of a trilogy which includes Across the Wide Missouri (for which DeVoto won both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes) and The Course of Empire. DeVoto’s narrative covers the expanding Western frontier, the Mormons, the Donner party, Fremont’s exploration, the Army of the West, and takes readers into Native American tribal life.
ISBN: 978-0-312-26794-0
538 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
Truman Talley Books, 1942
Tidings from the 18th Century
Beth Gilgun’s work gives readers the information, background, patterns and techniques to recreate the Colonial American lifestyle. Patterns and instructions for making clothing for the whole family, as other skills such as cooking and brewing, basketmaking, dyeing, making soap and candles, and 18th century needlework are some of the topics covered.
Written in the form of letters to fictional friend on the frontier, Mistress Gilgun shares information on all aspects of Colonial life. In her “letters,” she passes on news and information covering the skills and activities of daily life in 18th century America, as well as entertaining details about the latest fashions and word of goods newly available in the East Coast markets.
ISBN: 1-880655-04-7
277 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 10 3/4″
Scurlock Publishing Co., 1993
The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods – Volume 3, Tools & Utensils of the Fur Trade
This third volume is 462 pages long and contains 600 illustrations, most in color. This book contains chapters covering: axes, knives, kettles and cookware, traps, fishing gear, wood working tools, horse equipment, optics, smoking pipes and paraphernalia, sewing tools including needles and scissors, tanning equipment, hoes and other agricultural tools, grooming items including combs and mirrors, and much, much more!
It represents over 60 years of research in Europe and North America. These books have each received national awards as the best references published in the United States.
ISBN – 978-0-912611-20-4
462 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 11 1/4″
Museum of the Fur Trade, 2019
Trappers of the Far West
In the early 1800’s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness.
ISBN: 0-8032-7218-9
334 Pages
Softback
5″ x 8″
University of Nebraska Press, 1983
Undaunted Courage – Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West
In this sweeping adventure story, Stephen E. Ambrose, the bestselling author of D-Day, presents the definitive account of one of the most momentous journeys in American history. Ambrose follows the Lewis and Clark Expedition from Thomas Jefferson’s hope of finding a waterway to the Pacific, through the hart-stopping moments of the actual trip, to Lewis’s lonely demise on the Natchez Trace. Along the way, Ambrose shows us the American West as Lewis saw it – wild, awesome, and pristinely beautiful. Undaunted Courage is a stunningly told action tale that will delight readers for generations.
ISBN: 978-0-684-82697-4
521 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9 1/4″
Simon & Schuster, 2005
Upper Missouri Outfit: AMM Handbook
The purpose of the handbook was to tap the knowledge and experience of the UMO brothers and put it in accessible form for new members to help them along their “pilgrim’s journey.” This handbook would help them “come up to speed” while avoiding many common mistakes and wasting of their time and money in making and buying improper gear.
It is also a valuable resource for senior members of the Upper Missouri Outfit.
131 Pages
Spiral Bound Softback
9 1/4″ x 11″
Upper Missouri Outfit, 1996
Upper Missouri Outfit: UMO Cayuse Handbook
This book is a compilation of some of the old-time “horse sense,” re-learned and practiced today by the Montana Brigade of the American Mountain Men known as the Upper Missouri Outfit. These men are dedicated to recreating the use of the horse in their fur trade activities. It is an ongoing effort and undergoes constant revision as the skills and knowledge are tested on rides and pack trips throughout the Rocky Mountains.
174 Pages
Spiral Bound Softback
9″ x 11″
Book design and layout designed by:
L. Lasater – American Mountain Man #803 and Liberty Graphics, 2005
Vintage Distressed Leather Journal
A journal that is in close comparison to what the Mountain Men would have carried.
It has a distressed look and comes with an attached small leather strap that can be wrapped around the journal to keep it secured. It helps to protect the pages of the journal while it is packed away in a saddle bag or back pack.
Unlined pages of cotton rag paper. Approximately 105-110 Sheets (210-220 pages). Sizes may vary with page quantity.
It makes a great personal journal, organizer, diary, travel journal, or sketchbook for an artist.
The journal measures 6″ x 4 3/4″
Sizing of journal may vary.
Vintage Rolled Leather Journal
Own a leather journal that is very similar to what the Mountain Men carried.
The journal is rolled with a strap that wraps around it to keep it secure.
Unlined pages of cotton rag paper. Approximately 105-110 Sheets (210-220 pages). Sizes may vary with page quantity.
It makes a great personal journal, organizer, diary, travel journal, or sketchbook for an artist.
Measurements:
4 5/8″ x 6 7/8″ – Unrolled not including extra section of leather that wraps around the journal.
9 1/8″ x 4 5/8″ – Unrolled including the extra section of leather that wraps around the journal.
6 7/8″ x 2 5/8″ – Rolled and secure with wrap around strap.
Sizing of journal may vary.
WAH-TO-YAH and the Taos Trail
In the bright morning of his youth, Lewis H. Garrard traveled into the wild and free Rocky Mountain West and left us this fresh and vigorous account, which, says A. B. Guthrie Jr., contains in its pages “the genuine article–the Indian, the trader, the mountain man, their dress, and behavior and speech and the country and climate they lived in.”
On September 1, 1846, Garrard, then only seventeen years old, left Westport Landing (now Kansas City) with a caravan, under command of the famous trader Céran St. Vrain, bound for Bent’s Fort (Fort William) in the southeastern part of present-day Colorado. After a lengthy visit at the fort and in a camp of the Cheyenne Indians, early in 1847 he joined the little band of volunteers recruited by William Bent to avenge the death of his brother, Governor Charles Bent of Taos, killed in a bloody but brief Mexican and Indian uprising in that New Mexican pueblo. In fact, Garrard’s is the only eyewitness account we have of the trial and hanging of the “revolutionaries” at Taos.
Many notable figures of the plains and mountains dot his pages: traders St. Vrain and the Bents; mountain men John L. Hatcher, Jim Beckwourth, Lucien B. Maxwell, Kit Carson, and others; various soldiery traveling to and from the outposts of the Mexican War; and explorer and writer George F. Ruxton.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-1016-5
298 Pages
Softback
4 3/4″ x 7 1/2”
University of Oklahoma Press, 1955
Warrior Art of Wyoming’s Green River Basin – Biographic Petroglyphs Along the Seedskadee
Located along the Oregon Trail, rock art sites including Names Hill, South Piney, and Labarge Bluffs contain hundreds of ancient rock art images, all of which are included in Warrior Art of the Green River Basin. These fantastic images, created by Shoshone Indians, include both ceremonial and biological subjects.
The Green River, known to the resident Shoshones as Seedskadee Agie, flows through a high Plains-like Basin that was the crossroads of North America during 300 years of the Historic Period. In this area the Shoshone acquired their first horses and spreads northwestward onto the Great Plains to the feared “Snakes”. Later the area served as a corridor for horse raiders going south to steal more of these coveted animals.
ISBN: 978-0-97648004-1-9
191 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 11″
Oregon Archaeological Society, 2005
Weapons in Early American History
The purpose of this work then is to marry the weapons to the activities, rather than indulge in further detailed analysis of historic events or descriptions of physical characteristics of weapons used therein.
The weapons illustrated in the book are contained in the personal collections of the authors, augmented by examples from other sources. The text is derived from research of historical events and necessarily relies upon the many excellent published works of colleagues. The authors have endeavored to credit all those who came before.
368 Pages
Hardback
14 1/4″ x 11 1/4″
James D. Gordon and James B. Taylor, 2014
