Doe Sia – Bannock Girl and the Handcart Pioneers
Doe Sia, a ten-year-old Bannock girl, became known for her bravery when she and her heroic pet, Otterdog, saved a little boy from drowning. On the other side of the world in Denmark, Emma has also earned a reputation for courage by rescuing an elderly man from a burning barn.
When Emma immigrates to America and joins the “Handcart Pioneers” she and Doe Sia meet and form an immediate bond. This bond is tested during a fierce mountain blizzard, in which Emma is sure she will die. But Doe Sia knows how to build a shelter from branches, get meat from a dead buffalo, and, most important, find her way back to her people. Together the girls face one of nature’s greatest threats. Together they must struggle to survive.
ISBN: 978-1-880114-20-9
203 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 5/8″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1999
Dreams on the Green – Seven Mile River Ranch
The Seven Mile River Ranch is one of a kind. It is unique in western Wyoming and the western United States. No where else has such an incredible piece of land been preserved in this manner.
Through the efforts of its owners and managers it remains an unspoiled and pristine natural wildlife preserve and fishing haven. The ranch contains over seven miles of the famed Green River, a section of Horse Creek and other minor tributaries of the Green River. It has been conserved through conservation easements with strong provisions encouraging its owners to leave the ranch as it exists today.
It is also the home to six of the original Green River Rendezvous conducted between 1824-40. This event brought together trappers/mountain men, native Americans and the fur trade companies to trade, barter and celebrate. Thousands upon thousands of participants attended these events on the ranch properties nearly two hundred years ago.
The ranch is a beautiful parcel of about 3,300 acres and this book is designed to showcase that beauty and recognize the efforts of the owners to preserve and enhance this treasure for future generations.
ISBN – 978-1-6629-2149-0
195 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 8 3/4″
Gatekeeper Press, 2022
Dress Clothes of the Plains Indians
Volume 140 in the civilization of the American Indian Series
Challenging the misconception that the tribes of the Central Plains dressed alike, Dress Clothing of the Plains Indians assembles the varied distinctive dress of the Plains Indians and provides reliable information on the traditions and preferences of each tribe. While certain similarities can be found, tribes had recognizable cuts, colors, decorative symbols, and trims, as well as styles of hair and headdress, footwear, and accessories. In writing this book the author searched early mongraphs, primary sources, and museums, and helped make Indian costumes for exhibitions and dances.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-2137-6
219 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
University of Oklahoma Press, 1990
Dutch Oven Cooking
Dutch Oven Cooking is a handy little guide that’s bound to be a hit on any camping trip. It shows you how to practice the delicious “art” of Dutch oven cooking, and it’s packed with lots of simple recipes for simply great eatin’.
ISBN: 978-1-58979-352-1
98 Pages
Softback
5″ x 7″
National Book Network, 2006
Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West
This book is a full-color photographic guide to the identification, edibility, and medicinal uses of over 250 plant species, growing from Alaska to southern California, east across the Rocky Mountains and the Northern Plains to the Great Lakes. Herbalist and naturalist Gregory Tilford provides a thorough introduction to the world of herbal medicine for everyone interested in plants, personal well-being, and a healthy environment.
ISBN – 978-0-87842-359-0
239 Pages
Softback
5 3/8″ x 8 3/8″
Mountain Press Publishing Company, 1997
Embossed 2-Toned Leather Bag.
Embossed with Museum of the Mountain Man.
It is tan in color with a multi colored ribbon at the bottom. It has fringe on the bottom and it is square in shape with the fringe shaped like a triangle. It has a leather strap closer. Pull to each side and it will cinch in the middle.
Measurements:
6 1/2″ x 8″ (At the long portion of the fringe.)
6 1/2″ x 5 1/2″ (At the sides of the bag, shortest part.)
Ernest, The Moose Who Doesn’t Fit
Ernest is a large moose with a big problem…..He can’t fit into this book! Luckily, Ernest is also a very determined fellow, and he has a helpful little friend.
ISBN – 978-0-374-32217-5
23 Pages
Hardback
10″ x 10″
Farrar Straus Giroux New York
Macmillan Children’s Books, 2009
Etienne Provost – Man of the Mountains
The events of (Provost’s) life represent a looking glass into the total history of the Rocky Mountain fur trade. It would have been very difficult to find a person closely associated with the beaver trade in the American west who did not know Etienne, but considered him one of the outstanding individuals of that era. From Santa Fe and Taos to remote valleys of the Rocky Mountains and executive offices of the giant fur companies in St. Louis, his name was known and recognized as one who knew and understood every facet of the business, whether it be trading with Ute Indians in the Great Basin, escaping the treachery of an ambush planned by Shoshone on a remote River which bore his name on early maps, attending the first rendezvous with William Ashley in 1825, guiding a fur trade caravan to or from the annual rendezvous, carrying messages, or accompanying new recruits for the American Fur Company up the River to a remote trading post, his services were recognized as invaluable. Etienne Provost; Man of the Mountains, reveals the life and adventures of this giant among fur trade personalities and is welcome addition to the understanding of this remarkable are of the American West.
– Dr. Fred Gowans
ISBN: 0-943604-23-0
225 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/8″
Eagle’s View Publishing, 1989
New trials confront Marie: an abrupt ending to love, separation from friends, the disappearance of one child, a puzzling, painful division from another. Through it all, she struggles to know her purpose and worth. What could this God of the stars care for the survival of a mere woman? Fed by memories of her distant friend, Sacagawea, Marie discovers that inside every challenge is a gift to be treasured.
ISBN: 978-1-57856-500-9
422 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″
Waterbrook, 2003
Explorers of the American West – Mapping the World Through Primary Documents
With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time.
This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document’s relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective.
This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers’ historical literacy by modeling historians’ methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.
ISBN: 978-1-61069-731-6
321 Pages
Hardback
8 3/4″ x 11 1/4″
ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016
Exploring the Fur Trade Route of North America – Discover the Highways that Opened a Continent
Europeans in search of furs penetrated the continent from the St. Lawrence to the Columbia, aided by native North Americans who shared the secrets of its bounty. Today’s modern highways trace those ancient trade routes, taking time travelers on a journey of rediscovery.
With full-colored maps, hundreds of photographs and detailed driving directions to every site, this guide unlocks a world of adventure, when spirited men and women shaped one of the continent’s central dramas and determined its destiny.
ISBN – 978-1-896150-69-7
288 Pages
Softback
7″ x 10″
Heartland Associates, Inc., 2023
Father Peter John De Smet – Jesuit in the West
Clad in the black robe of his priestly order and armed only with a crucifix, for more than a quarter of a century Father De Smet relentlessly tramped the American frontier to bring peace and religion to the tribes of the Pacific Northwest and the upper Missouri River country.
In this biography, Robert Carriker describes De Smet’s love for the great American West and the native tribes who lived there, the Potawatomis, Flatheads, Coeur d’Alenes, Kalispels, Blackfeet, Yankton Sioux, and others to whom the Jesuit father carried Christianity. Soon the man called Black Robe became known throughout the mountains and plains as a man of peace and a friend of all Indians.
ISBN – 0-8061-2790-2
266 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 8 1/2″
University of Oklahoma Press, 1995
Feminine Fur Trade Fashions
Various patterns for dresses and coats can be found in this book. The information will allow anyone to be able to make the dress and or accessory that is wanted. Detailed instructions are given for each pattern that is covered within the book.
ISBN: 978-0-912611-10-5
48 Pages
Softback
8 1/2″ x 11″
The Fur Press, 1976
Field Guide the the North American Jackalope
A comprehensive, illustrated field guide to the North American Jackalope, covering known subspecies, their habits, history, and folklore.
ISBN: 978-1-59152-303-1
48 Pages
Softback
7″ x 5″
Caput Mortuum Books, 2021
The Encyclopedia of Trade Goods – Volume 1, Firearms of the Fur Trade
Winner of the gold medal for best reference book from the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Firearms of the Fur Trade is Volume I of the Museum’s new research and publishing project, a six-volume Encyclopedia of Trade Goods. It is 600 pages long and contains 1,500 illustrations, most in color, of long guns and pistols made for the fur companies to trade to Indian and white customers or as government gifts throughout North America. The book encompasses the results of seventy years of research, including historical studies and archeological investigations from across the continent. It draws together the all significant information currently available about Dutch, French, Belgian, British, and American fur trade arms. Illustrated examples include firearms from public and private collections in Sweden, Belgium, Britain, Canada and the US. The work provides pioneering analysis of the origins of the firearms trade, the value and use of guns by American natives, and how they changed the indigenous cultures and the nature of hunting, diplomacy and warfare. It establishes chronological typologies of government contract weapons and debunks the myths about guns being of little use when compared to native arms. – Museum of the Fur Trade
ISBN – 978-0-912611-18-1
583 Pages
Hardback
11 1/4″ x 11 1/4″
Museum of the Fur Trade, 2011
Firearms, Traps, and Tools of the Mountain Men – A Guide to the Equipment of the Trappers and Fur Traders Who Opened the Old West.
This classic history of early-nineteenth-century fur trappers and traders showcases the devices that enabled path-breaking frontiersmen to open the unmapped American West, including:
Canoes and flatboats, axes and tomahawks, Native American spears and pikes, beaver and bear traps, rifles and muskets, knives, hand guns, and more…
Many of the illustrations included were created by the author’s own work on the artifacts available: Carl P. Russell examined, measured, sketched, and photographed them himself. In some instances, the rare specimens were loaned from private or public museum collections for inclusion in this history.
ISBN: 978-1-60239-969-3
458 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2011
