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Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865 is Sarah Raymond Herndon's famous journal of her family's heartbreaking but inspiring trek across the Great Plains towards the Rocky …
Seven times had Robert Peary and Matthew Henson attempted to reach the fabled North Pole. Seven times they failed. In 1908, following years of frustration, they gather a crew of …
In 1917 Zane Grey went on a five month hunting and fishing trip into vast areas of the Colorado wilderness. The travel party included his brother R. C. (Romer Carl "Reddy" Grey) …
The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and …
New Zealander Tom Neale spent a total of sixteen years alone, in three spells, on the uninhabited Suwarrow coral atoll, half a mile long and three hundred yards wide in the South …
The expedition of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado, in search of Cibola, the fabled Seven Cities of Gold, consisted of some 400 Spaniards and more than 1,000 Native Americans, along …
"Wreck Of the Charles Eaton" is the true account of crashing onto the "Detached Reef" on August 15, 1834 and subsequent cannibalism of all except two on Boydan Island, between …
"Daniel Boone On the Cumberland Trail" is true history written as a novel, thus entertaining to read while educating the reader about the pioneer beginnings of western movement by …
Between 1887 and 1891, Albert Millican made five trips to the orchid-rich areas of South America, concentrating on the Northern Andes. It was a time of orchid mania when a rare …