THE BEAVER MEN. by Mari Sandoz.
History of trappers who roamed the wilds of Canada and
western America during the two centuries 1630-1834-their canoes, paddles, portages, and the animal whose fur they sought as bounty for trading to widespread companies. Tells of rivals of trading companies, rendezvous, relations with Indians, politics in the region. A chapter of American history that resulted in the first explorations by the white race of regions formerly known only to Native Americans, fueled largely by a desire to provide hats for folks in civilized areas. 335 pages, illustrated, maps, bibliography, index.
Inventory =1. ISBN: 0-8032-5884-4. Order #: UNNE6948 paper$7.95.
CABRILLO'S LOG 1542-1543, A Voyage of Discovery. Juan Paez.
Published by Cabrillo Historical Association.
ISBN: . Order #: CABR5987paper paper$19.00.
DISCOVERING LEWIS AND CLARK FROM THE AIR. Author: Joseph A. Mussulman,
Photographer: Jinn Wark.
"Anyone who insists on a window
seat when booking an airline flight will enjoy this book." We Proceeded On. Discovering Lewis and Clark from the Air offers a fascinating new
perspective on the Corp's historic journey. From Monticello in the east to Fort
Clatsop on the Pacific Coast, the wild continent the expedition crossed is
revealed anew in breathtaking full-color photographs.
272 pages. OUT OF PRINT; we have 1 copy left.
ISBN: 0-87842-490-4. Order #: MOPR1139 paper$24.00.
ENDURANCE: Shackleton's incredible voyage. by Alfred Lansing.
In 1914 Ernest Shackleton set out to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, Antarctica. But his ship became locked in pack ice and was crushed and his 27 men began a year of survival, while some of them journeyed 800 miles by lifeboat over perilous seas to a distant whaling station for help and rescue for the others. Photographs, 282 pages.
ISBN: 0-7867-0621-X. 1959. Used.. Order #: MISC1052 paper$13.95.
FORT CLATSOP: the story behind the scenery (OR). Dattilio.
Walk in the moccasins of Lewis and Clark at their 1805-06 westmost winter
encampment. Relive their daily lives, from tanning beaver hides to candlemaking.
Fort Clatsop National Memorial in northwestern Oregon, marks the location of the
winter fort. Explore the story of what Lewis & Clark found in the area, their
interaction with the native American tribes of the area, and the history that is
preserved at the memorial. 9x12, Paperback, 48 pages, 67 color photos, 1 map.
Inventory= 1. ISBN: 978-0-88714-011-4. 1993. Order #: KCPU3581 paper$11.95.
HISTORICAL ATLAS OF EXPLORATION: 1492-1600. by Angus Konstam.
This Age of Discovery was a period of intense passion, rivalry, and excitement during great global discovery by explorers from European nations. Read of the journeys of Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama's search for a sea route to the Indies, John Cabot's exploration of north America, Ferdinand Magellan's circumnavigation of the planet, and several others including search for the Northwest Passage across North America. Contemporary illustrations and 70 detailed full-color maps follow each explorer on their travels to the New World, the Pacific Islands, the Indies, the Spice Islands, and Asia. Color photographs, maps, paintings, and drawings, 192 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-8160-4248-9. 2000. Order #: MISC2706 cloth$35.00.
JEDEDIAH SMITH
and the opening of the West. by Dale L. Morgan.
An authentic American hero, Smith's main purpose was to find and trap beaver for the fur trade but in the process he discovered many western areas and travel routes: South Pass in Wyoming, California via overland, crossing of the Sierra Nevada, length and width of the Nevada/Utah Great Basin, and first to reach Oregon by journey up the coast from California.
Episodes of travel in snow, dealings with fur companies, traveling companions, Indian relations and encounters.
ISBN: 978-0-8032-5138-6. Pages 1-4 wrinkled. Order #: UNNE6523 paper$9.95.
JOHN WESLEY POWELL: soldier, explorer, scientist (1834-1902). Jean Thor Cook.
John Wesley Powell's insatiable curiosity led him to explore the area of the US marked "unknown" on maps -- an
area he mapped and named the Grand Canyon. Powell was a one-armed Civil War
veteran when he led the first expedition down the Colorado River through the
Grand Canyon in 1869.
ISBN: 978-0-86541-080-0. Order #: FILT4785 paper$8.95.
LEWIS AND CLARK: a photographic journey. by Bill and Jan Moeller.
Bill and Jan Moeller's Lewis and Clark provides a photo documentary to accompany text and quotes
from the journals of Lewis and Clark, creating a more appealing visual exploration of their journeys accessible to general-interest audiences." —Bookwatch. Retrace Lewis and Clark's footsteps with photographs of each location as the
explorers would have seen it. Includes quotes from their journals and carefully
researched text. Color photographs, 108 pages.
ISBN: 0-87842-405-9. 1999. Order #: MOPR1138 paper$18.00.
LEWIS AND CLARK: Voyage of Discovery. Murphy.
1804 exploration into America's new Louisiana
Purchase; wildlife, Indian encounters. 68 color photos, 48 large-format pages.
ISBN: 0-916122-50-6. 1974. Order #: KCPU0740 paper$8.95.
LEWIS AND CLARK TRAIL: the photo journal. by George Thomas.
If Lewis and Clark had had the good
fortune to document their amazing journey with photographs, these are the scenes
that would have been recorded because they are the scenes described in their
journals. Each photograph was taken within three weeks of the date Lewis and
Clark camped at or passed each location—thus, landscapes, water flows and
vegetative stages are very much as seen by expedition members.
11"x 8-1/2", 136 pages, 195 color photos, maps.
ISBN: 0-970599-20-X. 2004. Order #: PIHI5799 paper$19.95.
MAJOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL: voyage of discovery--the story behind the scenery. by Dan Murphy.
Travel with Powell on his harrowing 1869 journey of exploration to descend
the Green River to the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon.
9x12, 64 pages, 63 color photos, 28 maps.
ISBN: 0-88714-059-9. 2001. Third printing. Order #: KCPU8090 paper$12.95.
POWELL'S CANYON VOYAGE. by W. L. Rusho.
History of J. W. Powell's first expedition through the Grand
Canyon, organized as an endeavor to gather scientific information on the route of the river and its character, being in one of the last places of the then-United States to be explored. In addition, the venture also became an adventure as Powell's group navigated uncharted rapids in wooden boats. 44pages, illustrated with engravings and photographs from early expeditions..
ISBN: 0-910584-12-5. Order #: FILT0461 paper$4.00.
SPACE: discovery and exploration. edited by Martin J. Collins & Sylvia K. Kraemer.
Begins with a chronicling of man's historical explorations of Earth by sea and by land as a precursor to modern space exploration. Narrative moves into the scientific and engineering feats that allowed this new arena for discoveries and includes the politics and economics as well as the costs of accomplishments including aspects of the Cold War and of military and governmental aspects. Presents the stories of dedicated individuals who pioneered space exploration both in the laboratory and on missions. Color and black-and-white photographs and drawings, 321
extra-large-format pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN:0-88363-893-2 1993. Order #: SISC8583 cloth$75.00.
#A TOUR ON THE PRAIRIES. by Washington Irving.
1835 edition of this classic. Pages spotted (foxed moderately), else in good conditon. 285 pages.
ISBN: . /Order #: MISC9373 cloth$225.00. RC
UNITED STATES POLAR EXPLORATION. Friis.
National Archives Conference Vol. 1, Papers of the
Conference on United States Polar Exploration.
ISBN: 0-8214-0093-2. 1970. Order #: SWAL3743 cloth$15.00.
UP LONG'S PEAK IN 1873--with Rocky Mountain Jim. by Lady Isabella A. Bird.
In 1873 Lady Bird had herself a grand world tour from her native England. She stopped long at Estes Park, adjacent to what is now Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park. Was it the marvelous mountain scenery that held her there? Or her guide, Rocky Mountain Jim? On her tour she wrote letters to her sister back home, and these were later collected into the now-classic A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains. Up Long's Peak, of course, comes from the larger volume, abridged so as to center just on Estes Park and Long's Peak, in the area of what is today Rocky Mountain National Park. Visitors to the park region today can learn through this first-hand account of an early appreciation of America's wilderness heritage. Illustrations are by master landscape painters Albert Bierstadt (for whom a lake in the park is named), Thomas Moran, and others from both the original 1879 work and other sources. 24 little pages.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-023-1. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-023-2. Order #: VIST0023 paper$29.50.
WESTWARD WHOA: in the wake of Lewis and Clark. Carter.
How Preston and I set out in a rubber raft, afoot, and ahorse to discover the Northwest Passage. 299 pages.
ISBN: 0-671-79891-X. Order #: SISC8559 cloth$21.00.
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THE ASCENT OF MOUNT HAYDEN, GRAND TETON, 1872:
a new chapter of Western discovery (WY). by Nathaniel Pitt Langford.
Trials and triumphs of the first party to climb the Grand Tetons of Wyoming, July 29,
1872. Author Langford was among the early explorers of the Yellowstone/Teton region and
was first superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. His claim to a first ascent of the
Grand Teton has been challenged by later parties, and former park naturalist McCurdy
considers the various claims in the editor's preface. But regardless, the account still
gives a fine record of what mountain climbing was like in the early days in this region.
Reprint from Scribner's Monthly. Illustrations from Thomas Moran and others, 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-066-5. ISBN-13:
978-0-89646-066-9. Order #:
VIST0066 paper$3.95.
THE CAÑONS OF THE COLORADO--the 1869 discovery voyage down the Colorado River. by Major John Wesley Powell.
Note the word ca�ons in the title would today be spelled canyons but we have preserved the usage from the time when this voyage was made and written about by the major himself.
From Wyoming, into
Colorado, through Utah, to Arizona and the Grand Canyon, and to Nevada--this was the
journey of the "Colorado River Exploring Expedition", what Powell called his
group of 9 men and 4 boats as they began charting what was the last major unexplored part
of the then United States. The trip was not only scientific in its goals, but it naturally
became a grand adventure, with two of their party opting to leave the expedition before
attempting a furious cascade, only to be killed by Indians. Much of the land and scenery
which they drifted or dashed past is today included in National Park System areas. Illustrations are by Thomas Moran and others. 64 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-059-2.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-059-1. Order #:
VISeT0059 paper$4.95.
THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY--1879 (AK). by John Muir, its discoverer.
Adventures in a truly Alaskan wild with ice floes, bergs, mountain peaks, Natives,
canoe travel. Spending several "icy summers" in Alaska, Muir earned the name
"Ice Chief", exploring Glacier Bay and its region. It was a fitting continuation
to his involvement with glaciers, for he had developed the glacial origin theory for
Yosemite Valley, in spite of the fact that there the glaciers were almost entirely gone.
Here at Glacier Bay, no imagination was needed to understand the processes. Reprinted from Century Magazine. Engravings of ice and peaks abound in the book. 16 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-045-2. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-045-4. Order #: VIST0045 paper$3.95.
DISCOVERY OF THE YOSEMITE IN 1851 (CA). by Lafayette Houghton Bunnell, M.D., one of the Discoverers, of the Mariposa Battalion.
First published in 1880, this is the primary account of how Yosemite Valley came to be
"discovered" by the white race. Of course, the Indians knew it was there; they
were living in it when the battalion came to roust them out. The valley had been seen from
its rims and from afar before this trip, but this was the first recorded entry and
exploration. Bunnell proposed the name of the Indian tribe for the valley, "as it was
suggestive, euphonious, and certainly American; that by so doing, the name of the tribe of
Indians which we met leaving their homes in this valley, perhaps never to return, would be
perpetuated." Foreword by former chief park naturalist William R. Jones. Period engravings. 184pages, slightly abridged from the original. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-021-5.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-021-8. Order #: VIST0021 paper$6.95.
IN THE HEART OF THE CALIFORNIA ALPS:
a near view of the High Sierra in 1872. by John Muir.
Account of the first ascent of Mount Ritter, October, 1872. Record of one of Muir's finest
mountain rambles and of the first ascent, a solo one, of this mountain in the Mammoth
Lakes country of the eastern Sierra Nevada. Combines natural observations with the
adventures and philosophical musings of a nearly fatal climb. Made from a base camp with
three artists who were left sketching on the Lyell Fork of the Tuolumne River late in the season, while Muir ventured into the Minaret country, ion 1890 a part of Yosemite National Park but now in Inyo National Forest, near Mammoth, California. An
illustration of Mt. Ritter by one of these artists, William Keith, is included. Drawings
by Muir are also included, as well as other period illustrations. Foreword by former
Yosemite Chief Park Naturalist William R Jones. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
William Keith (from St Mary's College of California website):
"A 19th-century leading artist and visionary in San Francisco, William Keith (1838-1911) is most known for his impact on preserving and sharing the California landscape through paint and brush. Saint Mary's College Museum of Art cares for the most comprehensive body of work created by this California Master Landscape Painter.
KEITH AND MUIR: Keith arrived at Muir's cabin in Yosemite Valley with a letter of introduction in 1872, and a lifelong friendship quickly developed. The two Scottish immigrants took camping trips together in the High Sierra, saw each other when Muir was in San Francisco and helped inspire each other's work. The idea for the Sierra Club was first formed in Keith's studio during conversations with Muir, Dr. Joseph LeConte, the first president of the University of California, and Warren Olney, a prominent San Francisco attorney. Muir's concern with scientific accuracy reinforced Keith's early training as a wood engraver in encouraging him to reproduce the exact topography and details of a landscape early in his career. Keith had also already expressed a preference by 1870 to "study altogether from Nature," reflecting in part the admonishments of the influential writer John Ruskin."
ISBN-10: 0-89646-026-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-026-3. Order #: VIST0026 paper$3.95.
MOUNTAINEERING IN THE KINGS RIVER COUNTRY, 1864 (CA). by Clarence King of the California Geological Survey.
This early ascent of Mount Tyndall at the head of King's River (the river is not
related to our author) is now classic Western Americana literature. It is mountaineering
drama to the extreme, written even when the foothills of the Sierra Nevada were remote
enough, let alone peaks at the range crest, such as Tyndall. Clearly showing is the
author's love of nature. This writing appeared in several forms before being gathered with
others of King's articles in 1872 into Mountaineering in the Sierra Nevada, a
book still in print! In our little volume we include just material dealing with the Kings
River country so that visitors to this region, much of it now in Kings Canyon National
Park, can focus. King also conducted the U.S. Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel,
an unexplored line through America's interior, and was first director of the
U. S. Geological Survey. He has a Sierran peak named for him. Illustrations are added from Picturesque California(1888) and The
Yosemite Guidebook(1869). 48 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-042-8. ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-042-3. Order #:
VIST0042 paper$3.95.
Based on an account of the ascent of Mount Baker and a description of that portion of
Washington Territory seen on its approach. Mountaineering in 1868 was a different
experience than nowadays. This ascent began at the seashore and included canoe trip,
portages, and a backpack just to reach the base of the peak--all through country still
wild with Indians, bears, and wolves. The final assault on the summit included ropes, ice
axes, and crampons. Reprinted from Harper's New Monthly Magazine.
Illustrated with period engravings. 24 pages. See sample pages, illustrations.
ISBN-10: 0-89646-014-2.
ISBN-13: 978-0-89646-014-0. Order #: VIST0014 paper$3.95.
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