Mountain Men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramat...

Known by the Indians as 'Broken Hand,' Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who bec...

Documents the fact that in the nineteenth century, Frenchmen dominated the fur trade in the Unite...

In the early 1800s, vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded...

The legendary mountain men - the fur traders and trappers who penetrated the Rocky Mountains and ...

Reprint. Originally published: Glendale, Calif.: A.H. Clark, 1938.

It is unparalleled in history, the procession of Latter-Day Saints pushing handcarts from Iowa Ci...

Danger, hardship, and isolation could not turn back the tide of men and women who thirsted for ye...

This classic history is filled with colorful pathmarkers like Jedediah Smith, John C. Fremont, an...

In the development of the American West, no two decades were so full of romance and change as the...

Completing this memorable cast are Alexander Culbertson, skilled hunter; Auguste Pike Vasquez, mo...