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This collection retells and synthesizes first-person accounts and contemporary narratives of early overland exploration and trade in North America, organized into chapters on individual pathfinders and thematic studies. It follows river and transcontinental routes, sketches hardships and encounters with Indigenous communities, and examines the fur trade and prairie commerce that shaped expansion. Illustrations, maps, and excerpts from earlier journals accompany contextual commentary that links episodic adventures to broader patterns of movement, commerce, and geographic discovery.

 

Trails of the Pathfinders

By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL

Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postpaid $1.65

CONTENTS

Introduction
Alexander Henry
Jonathan Carver
Alexander Mackenzie
Lewis and Clark
Zebulon M. Pike
Alexander Henry (the Younger)
Ross Cox
The Commerce of the Prairies
Samuel Parker
Thomas J. Farnham
Fremont

One of the most stirring and inspiring chapters in the history of our country is made up of the picturesque, straightforward narratives of their adventures, told by the heroic men of action, explorers, hunters, and trappers, who first travelled through the unknown regions and among hostile Indians. Mr. Grinnell gives a number of the most exciting and important of these stories, told almost entirely in the words of the explorer himself, and they form a work of unrivalled interest to old and young.

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Zebulon M. Pike

Edited by MARY GAY HUMPHREYS

Illustrated. About $1.50 net. Postage extra

The thrilling account of Pike’s explorations told chiefly in his own words.


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The Boy’s Catlin

My Life Among the Indians

Edited with Biographical Introduction by MARY GAY HUMPHREYS

Illustrated from Catlin’s Drawings. $1.50 net

“As interesting a story of Indians as was ever written and has the merit of being true.”—New York Sun.

“It would be hard to find a book of more wholesome fascination for boys.”—San Francisco Argonaut.

The Boy’s Drake

By EDWIN M. BACON

Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postpaid $1.65

“Much of the story is told in the words of old records, and interesting old maps and pictures make it still more valuable.”—The Bookman.

“He has entered into the stirring time of England’s conquest of the seas and has written a fine biography of her great pirate captain, a book worthy of its subject and a worthy book for a boy.”—Chicago Tribune.

The Boy’s Hakluyt

Retold from Hakluyt

By EDWIN M. BACON

Illustrated. $1.50 net

“There is more adventure in this volume than will be found in a whole library of fiction.”—New York Sun.


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BY NOAH BROOKS

First Across the Continent

A CONCISE STORY OF THE LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION

Illustrated. $1.50 net

“More readable than a romance, full of hair-breadth escapes and imminent perils from savage man and beast, by storm and flood, by sickness and cold and starvation.”—Chicago Post.

“For any one who has an interest in adventure and in the hardihood of the pioneer this is a great story.”—Boston Herald.

The Boy Emigrants

Illustrated. $1.25

“It is one of the best boys’ stories we have ever read.”—The Christian Work.

“The name alone of this volume’s author should be a sufficient voucher for its qualities ... the book is picturesque and stirring.”—Providence Journal.

The Boy Settlers

A STORY OF EARLY TIMES IN KANSAS

Illustrated. $1.25

“Three boys and two men go out into Kansas, at the time when that region was the Far West. The boys have great sport killing buffaloes and some trouble about Indian uprisings.”—The Independent.


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The Adventures of James Capen Adams

Mountaineer and Grizzly Bear Hunter of California

By THEODORE H. HITTELL

Illustrated. $1.50 net. Postpaid $1.65

The story of the life and thrilling adventures of one of the most famous of American hunters and one of the first great tamers of wild animals.

The narrative is given just as it first appeared in the simple, direct language in which “Grizzly” Adams told it to Mr. Hittell—a style that bears all the marks of absolute truth.

The Grizzly Bear

By WILLIAM H. WRIGHT

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author and J. B. Kerfoot. $1.50 net

“Full of the atmosphere of the big game woods and vibrant with hazards of the chase.”—Boston Globe.

“The very spirit of the grizzly is in subtle fashion brought near us. The book will long hold a high place in the literature of sport.”—New York Tribune.

The Black Bear

By WILLIAM H. WRIGHT

Illustrated from Photographs by the Author and J. B. Kerfoot. $1.00 net. Postpaid $1.10

“Finely illustrated, informing, and entertaining.”—Philadelphia Inquirer.


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