These are must-haves for anyone who wants to dive deep into the world of the American West.
Dictionary of the American West: Over 5,000 Terms and Expressions from AARIGAA! to Zopilote: For the first time, ‘The ‘Dictionary of the American West’ includes all the voices of America’s richly woven history of the West: Women, Mormons, Hispanics, Blacks, French-Canadians, mountain men, half-bloods, immigrants, cowboys, and missionaries–to show how western speech is actually a riotous mix of cultures and languages.
This book is essential for anyone with an interest in the American West, in its history, facts & fables, idioms & mores. Highly informative and endlessly entertaining, accompanied by black-and-white illustrations, the Dictionary of the American West explains more than 5,000 terms and expressions in passages that pack a crossbuck saddle’s worth of American frontier history and wit.
This is great book to have on your library shelf, on your bedside table, or for a gift.
Give Your Heart to the Hawks: A Tribute to the Mountain Men: Mountain Man Hugh Glass’s harrowing journey 300 miles to civilization after being mauled by a grizzly bear, and left for dead, is just one of the incredible adventures Spur Award Winning author Win Blevins explores in the New York Times bestseller, Give Your Heart to the Hawks.
In addition to the captivating story of Hugh Glass, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless people who explored the Great American West from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s. Here, among many, are the enthralling stories of:
* John Colter, who, in 1808, naked and without weapons or food, escaped captivity by the Blackfeet and ran and walked 250 miles to Fort Lisa at the mouth of the Yellowstone River;
* Kit Carson, who ran away from home at age 17, became a legendary mountain man in his 20s and served as scout and guide for John C. Fremont’s westward explorations of the 1840s;
* Jedediah Smith, a tall, gaunt, Bible-reading New Yorker whose trapping expeditions ranged from the Rockies to California and who was killed by Comanches on the Cimarron in 1831.
“It was an epic time, which lasted hardly more than a third of a century before civilization swarmed west on trails the mountain men had blazed. Now Blevins sees they are paid the awed honor that is due them, in a book which has the drama and suspense of a novel.” ― Los Angeles Times