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Author
Publisher
Heirloom Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
49 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2005, the author appeared on PBS's Antiques Roadshow with her great-great-grandmother's needlework that was appraised as "a national treasure." This experience of a lifetime led her to ask herself "So who was Jane Dickson LaFramboise anyway?" Here, on the pages of this little book, she documents her search to answer her own question." [The item is referred to as a blanket or dance blanket.] -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 1250L
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
During the early 1800's, many young men took to the wilds of the little-known American West. The primitive life of the Indian and the profits to be made from the lucrative fur trade transformed them into mountain men. Their lives of isolation and danger were interspersed with the ribald gatherings known as the rendezvous. Mountain men and the rendezvous by Liz Sartori is chocked full of the adventures of these men. In this book you will: Learn about...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
531 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years, mountain men explored the Great American West, opening the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers that followed. Win Blevins' poetic tribute to their incredible adventures includes, among many, the stories of John Colter, who, in 1808, without clothing, weapons, or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and traveled 250 miles on foot to Fort Lisa; And Hugh Glass, who in 1823 was mauled by a grizzly, left...