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by Allan Eckert. 626 pages, Hardbound. The story of Simon Kenton and his role in opening up the Northwest Territory. The story of the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and the Indian Confederacy that nearly broke the thrust of white expansion. In total, the story of wilderness America, its penetration and settlement.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound. The story of Simon Kenton and his role in opening up the Northwest Territory. The story of the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and the Indian Confederacy that nearly broke the thrust of white expansion. In total, the story of wilderness America, its penetration and settlement.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound, 688 pages, 6" x 9". This volume traces the settling of the Illinois region from 1763 to 1816 and focuses on the "gateway" -- the Chicago Portage, a vital link between the East and the untapped riches of the West. This rich and readable story centers around Tecumseh, the Shawnee war chief and John Kinzie, successful American trader. Extensively researched, historically accurate, and containing voluminous footnotes. Eckert's books provide hours of pleasant reading and a detailed history lesson all in one.

by Allan Eckert. Hardbound, 592 pages, 6" x 9". Picking up in time roughly where he left off in Gateway to Empire, the author immerses the reader in the history of the Northwest Territories and the Louisiana Purchase during the first half of the nineteenth century as he relates the dramatic events prestaging and composing the Black Hawk War of 1832. The tale of America's westward expansion and the trickery, warfare, purchase, theft, and treaty through which it was achieved.

by Allan Eckert. Softbound, 592 pages, 6" x 9". Picking up in time roughly where he left off in Gateway to Empire, the author immerses the reader in the history of the Northwest Territories and the Louisiana Purchase during the first half of the nineteenth century as he relates the dramatic events prestaging and composing the Black Hawk War of 1832. The tale of America's westward expansion and the trickery, warfare, purchase, theft, and treaty through which it was achieved.

by Allan Eckert.  832 pages, 6" x 9". From 1755 on, the Ohio River would lead a few intrepid explorers into a land of vast abundance. But it was already the home of the most defiant and skilled warriors of all woodland tribes - the Shawnees. Though treaties were signed and boundaries drawn, the stream of settlers continued and the Indians vowed to defend their land. Thus, the Ohio acquired a new name . . . that dark and bloody river . . . a masterwork of narrative history by an award winning novelist and historian.

by Allan Eckert.  177 pages, 4" x 7". In 1771, a white boy was captured by Shawnee Indians in an area that was to become West Virginia. The boy lived to become the war chief known as Blue Jacket. The author has expanded on the known facts to produce a veryreadable, historically accurate novel.

by Allan Eckert. 862 pages, 6-1/2" x 9-1/2.  A fiery orator, a brilliant diplomat, a revolutionary thinker, a political and military genius, the man named Tecumseh became alegend among Native Americans and whites. In this epic work, utilizing more than 850 sources, Eckert weaves a compelling true tale of a man of war and a searcher after peace during the birth and expansion of our nation.

by Walter Edmonds. Softbound, 214 pages. Originally published in 1947 by the author of Drums Along the Mohawk, this is an exciting story about the Indian captivity of pioneer women on the warring frontier in Revolutionary New York. Edmonds’ novels have been notable for combining good entertainment with historical exactness.

by Raymond W. Thorp and Robert Bunker. Softbound, 190 pages, 5-1/2" x 8-1/2". The story of John “Liver Eatin" Johnson and his vengeance against the entire Crow Nation.

by Vardis Fisher. Softbound, 351 pages, 4" x 7". The book that was the inspiration for the movie "Jeremiah Johnson", the classic struggle of a mountainman to avenge the death of his wife and child. An impressive piece of historical fiction that captures the essence of the mountainman's experience without sentimentalization. The author's knowledge of pioneer history, the majesty of nature, the beauty of the self-sufficient life and the eloquence of solitude gives his book a satisfying authenticity.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 571 pages, 4" x 7". A magnificent historical novel, the story of Josiah Paddock, Easterner turned mountainman, and his harsh struggle for survival against wild animals, fierce Indians and an unrelenting environment. An authentic mountainman novel thick with Northwest wilderness period detail (1820-1840), larded with frontier sentiment and enhanced by fine views of “some of the best lookin’ country the Lord put down”!

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 455 pages, 4" x 7". equel to Carry the Wind, this is the second volume of Johnston’s award winning saga of mountainmen Josiah Paddock and Titus Bass; who here meetnew loves and challenges in the western wilderness of the 1830’s. A powerful drama filled with fascinating scenes of tribal Indian life depicted with passion and detail,  all leading to a terrifying climax at the 1833 Green River Rendezvous.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 432 pages, 4" x 7". The final volume in the trilogy begun with Carry the Wind and Borderlords. During the winter at Taos, Scratch and Josiah are suddenly drawn by startling news back to St. Louis through a fierce winter  storm to meet old enemies.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 624 pages, 4" x 7". The world of an early 19th century Kentucky farm proves to be too small a place for a boy with a vision as grand as that of Titus “Scratch” Bass. His wanderlust takes him to the Ohio River and into thefierce business world of old St. Louis, where he meets a veteran trapper, just returned from upper Missouri. Filled with the trapper’s captivating stories, he plans to set out the following spring to experience the wilderness lore firsthand. A trip to a fabled land frontiersmen call “the buffalo palace”.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 560 pages, 4" x 7". No living author is more adept at bringing the authentic West to life than Terry C. Johnston. In this book, he continues the saga of Dance on the Wind hero Titus “Scratch” Bass, who sets out to conquer  the high country of the Rocky Mountains. We watch Titus learn fur-trapping, withstand the freezing winter, and fight fierce Indians and even fiercer mountain men. Then, as he discovers the immense herd that originally fueled his wanderlust, Titus reachesthe country called the “buffalo palace.”

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 672 pages, 4" x 7". Crack in the Sky continues the historical saga of Terry Johnston’s most popular character, Titus Bass. From a raucous bout with trappers to a searing fight with Comanche, from a frigid winter to an angry chase with horse thieves, Titus Bass’s West springs to life in the pages of this remarkable novel. The drama peaks in the final scene, when Titus Bass meets Josiah Paddock and forms the deep friendship explored in the Johnston’s biggest best-seller to date, Carry the Wind.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 448 pages, 6" x 9". The thrilling saga of Titus Bass continues as one of the most beloved characters in historical American fiction must watch the end of his mountain man way of life. By the endof the 1830’s most trappers were simply giving up. Bass chose to fight, for a home in the mountains he loved, for his wife and family. He would fight with the Crow against their ancestral enemies, the Blackfoot; he would struggle with the scourge of smallpox that decimated the High Plains; and, finally, he would fight the bitter cold, the blazing heat and the manifold dangers of a land that was as deadly as it was beautiful.

by Terry C. Johnston. Softbound, 429 pages, 6-1/2" x 9-1/2". With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expeditionof old friends and former enemies to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses and mules in abundance. Their plan is to steal the livestock and drive it back east across the great Mojave Desert to sell to fur traders for top dollar. The era of thetrapper is ending, and Bass begins to wonder where his own trail will take him--with the mountains no longer so wild and the price of beaver and other fine furs no longer worth a man's risking his own life. An outsider in a world he no longer recognizes.

by Terry Johnston. Softbound, 639 pages, 4" x 7". The conclusion to the unforgettable epic of Johnston's legendary hero, Titus Bass. In this breathtaking climax, Bass, the hardy survivor of a world now gone, prepares to fight his magnificent final battle. Bass learns the greatest lesson of all -- that dearer by far than his own life are the lives of his friends and loved ones.