Expeditions and Discovery
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The Oregon Trail (Oxford World's Classics)
by Francis, Jr. Parkman, Bernard Rosenthal (Editor), 2000 $10.95 (less discount) |
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| A reprint of the classic and loved
history book by Parkman. A must read for all. | |
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The Year of Decision 1846
by Bernard Augustine DeVoto, 2000 $15.95 (less discount) |
| 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. The author won the Pulitzer Prize and the
National Book Award. | |
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A Newer World : Kit Carson, John C. Fremont, and the Claiming of the American West
by David Roberts, 2000 $25.00 (less discount) |
| A Newer World is the fascinating story of the
Frémont-Carson expeditions and of two men, utterly
unalike in so many ways, who became friends as well as
fellow explorers. "He has written a remarkably
well-balanced portrait of two major but still
controversial figures of the Old West." -- The New York Times Book Review, David Haward Bain | |
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The Santa Fe Trail : Its History, Legends, and Lore
by David Dary, 2000 $30.00 (less discount) |
| Once again, we expand our California history collection to include an important book on the Old West. From 1610, when the Spanish founded the city of Santa Fe, to the 1860s, when the railroad brought unprecedented changes: here is the full, fascinating story of the great Santa Fe Trail which ran between Missouri and Kansas and New Mexico--a lifeline to and from the Southwest for more than two centuries. | |
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A World Transformed : Firsthand Accounts of
California Before the Gold Rush
by Joshua Paddison (Editor), 1999 $16.95 (less discount) |
| A World Transformed gathers together the writings of early European
explorers, missionaries, sea captains and other visitors, from the first
Spaniards to glimpse San Francisco Bay in 1769 to the eve of the gold
rush. In 15 literate and accessible accounts by Father Juan Crespi,
George Vancouver, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Edwin Bryant and others,
the transformation of San Francisco (and by extension, all of California)
unfolds before us. | |
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Saga of Lewis and Clark: Into the Unknown West
by Thomas Schmidt, Jeremy Schmidt, 1999 $35.00 (less discount) |
| Storytellers are many, but illustrators are few--and
few books on the epic journey of Meriwether Lewis and
William Clark are as beautiful as The Saga of Lewis &
Clark. Illustrations from the original journals reveal
the explorers' creative spelling and fine cartographic
abilities; old drawings and etchings lend authenticity
to the chronicle; and color photographs prove that the
dramatic landscape they encountered remains wild in
places. | |
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Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition
by Marlene Deahl Merrill (Editor), 1999 $29.95 (less discount) |
| This is not California history, but it is a fascinating
account of the Yellowstone expedition, a little known
aspect of western U.S. history. | |
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Over the Rim : The Parley P. Pratt Exploring
Expedition to Southern Utah, 1849-50
by William B. Smart (Editor), Donna Toland Smart (Editor), 1999 $19.95 (less discount) |
| This little-known expedition, led by Parley P. Pratt, thus had a large
impact on Utah history. It was also a dramatic and adventurous journey.
The journals of the expedition - published complete in Over the Rim for
the first time - record the feat of an unusual party of righteous frontiersmen
who, challenged by harsh weather and difficult terrain, opened a way for
Mormon expansion toward the Pacific coast and along the way
documented much about both their new homeland and the native Utes and
Paiutes their people would displace. | |
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Sir Francis Drake : The Queen's Pirate
by Harry Kelsey, 1998 $35.00 |
| Drake has few champions today, certainly fewer than
he did in Elizabethan times. Even then he was none too
popular. This well-written revisionist biography
explains why. | |
