The Promise of the West : Young Pioneers on the Overland Trails [1 ed.] 9781493017270, 9781493017263

Paper Trails: The US Post and the Making of the American West 0190053674, 9780190053673

A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West. There were five times as many po

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Trails of the Pathfinders

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When the West Was Young 9781356235360

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French Pioneers in the West Indies 1624-1664 9780231876629

A historical examination of colonization in the West Indies by the French. Looks at French expansion onto the various is

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Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier 9798771637020

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Go West, Young Women!: The Rise of Early Hollywood 9780520953680

In the early part of the twentieth century, migrants made their way from rural homes to cities in record numbers and man

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The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West 9781501168697, 9781501168680, 1501168681

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—th

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The Longest Road: Overland in Search of America, from Key West to the Arctic Ocean 9780805096965, 9780805094466, 2012050451, 0805096965

In The Longest Road, one of America's most respected writers takes an epic journey across America, Airstream in tow

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Peninsula Trails: Hiking and Biking Trails on the San Francisco Peninsula [4 ed.] 9780899973661

Choose from more than 150 trips on over 500 miles of trails with this comprehensive guide to every park and preserve on

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Promise of Eden : The Canadian Expansionist Movement and the Idea of the West, 1856-1900 [1 ed.] 9781442678811, 9780802073907

Through the last half of the nineteenth century, numbers of Canadians began to regard the West as a land of ideal opport

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