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   Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805 » Read Now

   by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire, Peter Wild. 398 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...exploration narratives of the American...1. West U.S. -- Discovery and exploration. 2. West...that move us in our sometimes...century, these narratives show us how...
   
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   Narratives of Exploration and Adventure » Read Now

   by John Charles Fremont, Allan Nevins. 532 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...Circumstances had more than usually endeared us to each other and I knew that her life would...American coast as teacher on board the U. S. sloop of war Natchez, Captain...
   
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   Journals of Forty-Niners: Salt Lake to Los Angeles: With Diaries and Contemporary Records of Sheldon Young, James S. Brown, Jacob Y. Stover, Charles C. Rich, Addison Pratt, Howard Egan, Henry W. Bigler, and Others » Read Now

   by Ann W. Hafen, Leroy R. Hafen. 333 pgs.

   Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

   ...Western history is all the richer thanks to LeRoy and Ann Hafen, who have assembled a fascinating array of diaries and memoirs of forty-niners who set out from Salt Lake

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   Yellowstone and the Great West: Journals, Letters, and Images from the 1871 Hayden Expedition » Read Now

   by Marlene Deahl Merrill. 322 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   A daily record of Ferdinand Hayden's historic scientific expedition trough Utah, Idaho, & Montana Territories to the Yellowstone Basin.
   
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   The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery » Read Now

   by William Clark, Meriwether Lewis, Gary E. Moulton. 413 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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   The Road to Santa Fe: The Journal and Diaries of George Champlin Sibley and Others Pertaining to the Surveying and Marking of a Road from the Missouri Frontier to the Settlements of New Mexico, 1825-1827 » Read Now

   by Kate L. Gregg. 280 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...The following Men joined us here--Jo. Walker, 23...TO THE BOUNDARY OF THE U. S. MEXICO The Commissioners...J. S. Johnston 26 U. S. Senators; to Jno. Scott...sultry. The...
   
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   The Domainguez-Escalante Journal: Their Expedition through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1776 » Read Now

   by Fray Angelico Chavez, Ted J. Warner, Silvestre Valez de Escalante. 153 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   The chronicle of Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez's remarkable 1776 expedition through the Rocky Mountains, the eastern Great Basin, and the Colorado Plateau to inventory new lands for the Spanish crown and to find a route from Santa Fe to Monterey, California.
   
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   The Blazed Trail of the Old Frontier: Being the Log of the Upper Missouri Historical Expedition under the Auspices of the Governors & Historical Associations of Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana for 1925 » Read Now

   by Agnes C. Laut, Charles M. Russell. 276 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library

   ...people had come to meet us, but that was nothing...the way of scientific exploration across these plains...upon the discovery and exploration of the interior of...
   
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   Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 1 » Read Now

   by Dale Morgan. 457 pgs.

   Collections: History, Entire Library
   
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    Overland in 1846: Diaries and Letters of the California-Oregon Trail, Vol. 2 » Read Now

    by Dale Morgan. 826 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    
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    On to Oregon: The Diaries of Mary Walker and Myra Eells » Read Now

    by Clifford Merrill Drury, Myra Fairbanks Eells, Mary Richardson Walker. 382 pgs.

    Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library
    
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    Covered Wagon Women: Diaries & Letters from the Western Trails, 1840-1849, Vol. 1 » Read Now

    by Kenneth L. Holmes. 282 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library