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Journal of an expedition to the grand prairies of the Missouri, 1840 / by William Fairholme edited by Jack B. Tykal.

In the shadow of Fřmont : Edward Kern and the art of exploration, 1845-1860 / by Robert V. Hine.

900 miles on the Butterfield Trail / A.C. Greene.

Making a motion picture in 1848 Henry Lewis' journal of a canoe voyage from the Falls of St.. Anthony to St. Louis with an introduction and notes by Bertha L. Heilbron.

The New World : the first pictures of America / made by John White and Jacques Le Moyne and engraved by Theodore de Bry with contemporary narratives of the Huguenot settlement in Florida, 1562-1565, and the Virginia colony, 1585-1590 edited and annota

The valley of the Mississippi illustrated. / Translated from the German by A. Hermina Poatgieter. Edited with an introd. and notes by Bertha L. Heilbron.

The Rocky Mountains : a vision for artists in the nineteenth century / by Patricia Trenton and Peter H. Hassrick.

The West of Alfred Jacob Miller (1837), from the notes and water colors in the Walters Art Gallery. / With an account of the artist by Marvin C. Ross.

Westward the way the character and development of the Louisiana Territory as seen by artists and writers of the nineteenth century / edited by Perry T. Rathbone.

Travel-talks / by Dean Harris.

The way to the western sea : Lewis and Clark across the continent / David Lavender.

Through Indian eyes a journey among the Indian tribes of Guiana.

The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition / Gary E. Moulton, editor.

O brave new people : the European invention of the American Indian / John F. Moffitt, Santiago Sebastiǹ.

Audubon's western journal: 1849-1850 being the ms. record of a trip from New York to Texas, and an overland journey through Mexico and Arizona to the gold fields of California / by John W. Audubon, with biographical memoir by his daughter, Maria R. Audub

Plains & Rockies, 1800-1865 : One hundred twenty proposed additions to the Wagner-Camp and Becker bibliography of travel and adventure in the American West: with 33 selected reprints / compiled and annontated by David A. White.

Audubon's America the narratives and experiences of John James Audubon / edited by Donald Culross Peattie illustrated with facsimiles of Audubon's prints and paintings.

By path and trail / [by] Oswald Crawford [pseud.]

Journal of John James Audubon : made while obtaining subscriptions to his Birds of America, 1840-1843 / edited by Howard Corning foreword by Francis H. Herrick.

Indian life in Texas / written and illustrated by Charles Shaw with photographs by Reagan Bradshaw foreword by James A. Michener.