Lost Mines & Buried Treasures of Old Wyoming
W.C Jameson, one of the leading experts on treasure hinting in the U.S., now turns his attention to Wyoming’s lost fortunes. With his gift for storytelling, he relates intriguing legends and historical accounts about lost gold, buried payrolls, and hidden strongboxes.
Jameson has written more than 60 books on treasure hunting and served as an advisor to Walt Disney Productions on the National Treasure movies starring Nicholas Cage. An amateur treasure hunter in Texas testified in court that he had found a multi-million dollar lost treasure by using only a copy of one of Jameson’s books and Google Earth for directions.
In this book Jameson takes readers on an adventure to the four corners of Wyoming to investigate the Snake River Pothole Gold, the Hallelujah Gulch Robbery Loot, the Lost Treasure of Big Nose George, the Lost Cabin Gold Mine, Nate Champion’s Lost Treasure, and eleven other action-packed tales.
ISBN: 978-0-931271-95-3
144 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 1/2″
High Plains Press, 2010
Lost Voices on the Missouri – John Dougherty and the Indian Frontier
John Dougherty participated in every notable aspect of the western frontier from the return of Lewis and Clark to the first rumblings of the War between the states. Dougherty made significant contributions in the fur trade of the upper Missouri alongside such notable individuals as John Colter and Andrew Henry. He was an interpreter and natural historian to the team of scientists and painters – notably Thomas Say, Samuel Seymour, and Titian Peale – accompanying Stephen H. Long on the first federally-sponsored scientific expedition to the interior of the continent. John Dougherty’s skills as interpreter and sub-Indian agent facilitated the reach of the U.S. Army up the Missouri River to establish the remote outposts of Martin’s Cantonment and Fort Atkinson. In the 1830’s, Dougherty responsibly conducted the duties of his office as Indian agent on behalf of the tribes of the upper Missouri River during the rise of the Jacksonian democracy, pleading all the while to remedy the discord wrought by Indian removal – the placement of too many tribes within an area possessing insufficient resources to accommodate the needs of the total. While he personally eschewed religious revivalism, John Dougherty endorsed and ably assisted the outreach of missionaries John Dunbar, Samuel Allis, and Moses Merrill to the Pawnee and Otoe Indians to forward the assimilation of those tribes. He platted and built his own jump-off town on the Missouri River to accommodate westward expansion and conducted emigrant trade on the Oregon and California roads in company with Robert Campbell, facilitating the successful trek of those later travelers bent on traversing the Great Plains to the western slopes of the continent. John Dougherty served Clay County in the Missouri legislature as a Whig congressmen in 1840- determined to negate the influence of the American Fur Company and to reduce the calamitous effect of illicit liquor trade with the Indians as countenanced by the entity. He was appointed colonel of the Third Regiment of Missouri Volunteers mustered for service in the Mexican War. In the political arena, Dougherty sought to best his opponents amidst the rise of over the expansion of slavery following the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Of lasting import, John Dougherty crafted arguably the grandest Little Dixie plantation in the state of Missouri – known and acclaimed as Multnomah.
ISBN – 978-0-615-68375-1
855 Pages
Hardback
7 1/4″ x 10 1/4″
Sam Clark Publishing Co., 2013
Maddie and Liam at the Museum
Maddie and Liam take you through the museum and show you the art that draws them in and makes them feel as if they are part of the painting. They tell you the story of what they see when looking at each painting within the museum.
ISBN – 978-1-64194-109-9
31 Pages
Hardback
10 1/4″ x 10 1/4″
Commonwealth Editions, 2021
Many Tender Ties – Women in Fur-Trade Society 1670 – 1870
Beginning with the founding of the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1670, the fur trade dominated the development of of the Canadian West. In this long-neglected story of interracial fur-trade families in western Canada, Sylvia Van Kirk demonstrates how important women were to the Canadian fur trade. She illuminates mutual economic dependency between Native peoples and European traders and shows how marriages of fur traders to Indian women created bonds that advanced trade relations.
ISBN – 978-0-8061-1847-5
301 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
The University of Oklahoma Press, 1980
Medicines of the Fur Trade and Lewis & Clark Era
“Bleed, Blister, Purge, and Clyster”
A publication for the medicine used during the times of Lewis & Clark.
There are many examples of medical kits that would have been used along with medicines and herbal remedies that were used to treat the various issues that people would come across. Whether it be a sickness or injury this book will show you the items and medicine used to treat the ailment the person would be suffering from.
ISBN:979-8-21823266-5
56 Pages
Soft Back
8 1/2″ x 11″
Museum of the Mountain Man, 2023
Memories of Kendall Valley
The author, Richard Hecox, was born in Mountain View, Wyoming in 1912 and moved to Kendall Valley with his family when he was an infant. His parents filed on a piece of land east of the Green River and built a cabin. Richard lived a pioneer existence, full of stories and adventures of the early settlers in the Kendall Valley. The book is a recollection of Mr. Hecox’s life, family and neighbors which he originally had published in 1982.
Richard’s hope was that the book will be enjoyed by generations of family and those who live or have lived in Kendall Valley.
Kendall Valley – In 1885, Rock Springs, Wyoming banker August Kendall founded the Green River Lumber and Tie Company primarily to manufacture railroad ties. The Company established its headquarters, named after its founder, in a remote and isolated area on the upper Green River, close to where the Kendall Guard Station is now located.
The company employed up to 100 people in an area with only a handful of settlers up to that point. Cutting activities extended from Twin Creeks and Green River Lakes on both sides of the river. By 1904, the company closed and most of the workers moved on, but a few stayed to make the valley home and others followed. To the locals, the area of the Green River north of Twin Creeks became known as Kendall Valley.
ISBN: 9781086437065
439 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
Museum of the Mountain Man, 2019
Men To Match My Mountains – The Monumental Saga of the Winning of America’s Far West
Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants-men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners who developed Nevada’s Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies.
America called for greatness…and got it. There is nothing else in history to match the stories of these men who braved a wilderness to bring a new nation to the shores of the Pacific.
ISBN – 978-0-425-10544-3
562 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/4″
Berkley Books, 1982
Metal Weapons, Tools & Ornaments of the Teton Dakota Indians
The first book by Dr. James A. Hanson is a comprehensive guide to the identification of typical Teton metal objects and when and how they were used. The text is based on the author’s examination of over 10,000 artifacts in collections throughout the US and research in both American and English archives.
The Classic study of Plains Indian material culture by James A. Hanson.
ISBN: 978-0912611013
118 Pages
Softback
10″ x 7 1/2″
Museum of the Fur Trade, 2001
Learn the secret of the Mountain Man’s most valued procession – The Fire Steel.
This set of instructions explains how to start a fire, how to make your own charred cloth and what tinder works best.
The Fine Art of Fire Making – Kit Includes
1 – Fire Steel, 1 – Piece of Flint, 1 – 12″ Square of Cloth for Charring, and 1 – Set of Illustrated Instructions.
Moho Wat – Sheepeater Boy Attempts a Rescue
Life is hard for the nine-year-old after a terrible struggle with a mountain lion causes him to lose his left hand.
Although devastated, Moho Wat struggles to overcome his injury and teach himself to hunt—using his feet to hold the bow and arrow. His courage and strength is tested when he attempts to rescue the beautiful Wind Flower, who has been taken captive by an enemy tribe.
Moho Wat realizes he has succeeded when his father says, “My son, today you have proved that you are as good as any man. You have shown your bravery and your goodness. I am proud of you my son, Moho Wat.”
ISBN: 188011413-5
184 Pages
Softback
5 1/4″ x 7 3/4″
Grandview Publishing Company, 1994
Did you know…..that moose shed their antlers before the winter each year and grow them back in the spring. These antlers also known as paddles grow quickly, up to one inch a day. They will be even larger than the year before. The moose, the largest of all deer, spends a good amount of time in water feeding on aquatic plants.
This moose measures 6 1/2 inches from the top of the head and measures 3 inches at the widest part.
Mountain Man Sketchbook – Volume One
The Mountain Man era – the age when white hunters rather than Indians reaped the harvest of pelts in the Rockies – lasted about thirty years from 1810 to 1840.
44 Pages
Softback
11″ x 8 1/2″
The Fur Press, 1976
Mountain Man Sketch – Volume 2
Another sketchbook that can help you get the right pattern that is best for you. Use Volume 2 to also assist with the making of tools, kettles, knives, saddles, etc. Recommended for the individual who wants to have a pattern that is closest to the real thing.
48 Pages
Softback
11″ x 8 1/2″
The Fur Press, 1976
Mountain Men – The History of Fur Trapping – Coloring Book
Follow in the footsteps of frontiersmen as they seek their fortunes during the early nineteenth century in beaver-rich trapping grounds across North America. Thirty illustrations to color depict Manuel Lisa, Jedediah Strong Smith, and other intrepid trappers and their trade, including their tools and weapons as well as their encounters with explorers and both hostile and friendly Indians.
ISBN: 978-0-486-79968-1
30 Pages
Softback
8 1/8″ x 10 7/8″
Dover Publications, 2015
Mountain Men & Fur Traders of the Far West
The legendary mountain men–the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and explored the Far West in the first half of the nineteenth century–formed the vanguard of the American empire and became the heroes of American adventure.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-7210-1
401 Pages
Softback
5 1/2″ x 8 1/2″
University of Nebraska Press, 1965
Mountain Spirit – The Sheep Eater Indians of Yellowstone
Drawing on extensive ethnographic work among descendant native peoples and ongoing archaeological excavations, Mountain Spirit shows that many groups have visited or lived in the area prehistoric and historic times. Primary among them was the Shoshone group called Tukudika, or Sheep Eaters, who maintained a rich and abundant way of life closely related to their primary source of protein, the mountain sheep of the high-altitude Yellowstone area.
ISBN: 978-0-87480-867-4
224 Pages
Softback
6″ x 9″
The University of Utah Press, 2006
