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If you loved One Man’s West by David Lavender, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Adventurers & Explorers, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), State & Local, and United States.

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The Immortal Irishman The Irish Revolutionary who Became an American Hero — Timothy Egan

The Immortal Irishman The Irish Revolutionary who Became an American Hero

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier — Bob Drury

Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America’s First Frontier

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Life Of Billy Dixon, Plainsman, Scout And Pioneer A Narrative In Which Are Described Many Things Relating To The Early Southwest — Olive K. Dixon

Life Of Billy Dixon, Plainsman, Scout And Pioneer A Narrative In Which Are Described Many Things Relating To The Early Southwest

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride — Daniel James Brown

The Indifferent Stars Above The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Chief of Scouts-As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Western Frontier — William F. Drannan

Chief of Scouts-As Pilot to Emigrant and Government Trains, Across the Plains of the Western Frontier

William F. Drannan

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Ida Her Labor of Love — Carol McManus

Ida Her Labor of Love

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Essential Lewis and Clark — Meriwether Lewis

The Essential Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Colorado Forts Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier — Jolie Anderson Gallagher

Colorado Forts Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier

Jolie Anderson Gallagher

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Journals of Lewis and Clark — Meriwether Lewis

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

Meriwether Lewis

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Dreams of El Dorado A History of the American West — H. W. Brands

Dreams of El Dorado A History of the American West

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Finding Everett Ruess The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer — David Roberts

Finding Everett Ruess The Life and Unsolved Disappearance of a Legendary Wilderness Explorer

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Scenes of Visionary Enchantment Reflections on Lewis and Clark — Dayton Duncan

Scenes of Visionary Enchantment Reflections on Lewis and Clark

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Brave the Wild River The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon — Melissa L. Sevigny

Brave the Wild River The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West — Jerry Enzler

Jim Bridger Trailblazer of the American West

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Last Ride of the Pony Express My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West — Will Grant

The Last Ride of the Pony Express My 2,000-mile Horseback Journey Into the Old West

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Salt Desert Trails A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California — Charles Kelly

Salt Desert Trails A History of the Hastings Cutoff and Other Early Trails which Crossed the Great Salt Desert Seeking a Shorter Road to California

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Kit Carson The Life of an American Border Man — David Remley

Kit Carson The Life of an American Border Man

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook — Hampton Sides

The Wide Wide Sea Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Hush of the Land A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness — Arnold “Smoke” Elser

Hush of the Land A Lifetime in the Bob Marshall Wilderness — Arnold “Smoke” Elser

Arnold "Smoke" Elser

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Lewis & Clark A Photographic Journey — Bill Moeller

Lewis & Clark A Photographic Journey

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Imperfect Union How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War — Steve Inskeep

Imperfect Union How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

The Explorers A New History of America in Ten Expeditions — Amanda Bellows

The Explorers A New History of America in Ten Expeditions

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Death Valley in ’49 An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert — William Lewis Manly

Death Valley in ’49 An Autobiography of a Pioneer Who Survived the California Desert

William Lewis Manly

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West — Matthew P. Mayo

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears Fifty Of The Grittiest Moments In The History Of The Wild West

Matthew P. Mayo

Themes: Adventurers & Explorers • West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY) • State & Local

Fans of One Man’s West by David Lavender will find 24 titles here, all united by Adventurers & Explorers, West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY), State & Local. Authors represented include Timothy Egan, Bob Drury, Olive K. Dixon, Daniel James Brown, and others.

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