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Pub. Date
c1994
Description
In the summer of Montana's 1989 centennial of statehood, the questing young writer bought a used Jeep; packed a tent, a pistol, and a fly rod; and hit the trail. With humor and insight, Conrad encounters bar-fighting cowboys, wolf biologists, modern-day mountain men with flintlock rifles, xenophobic flyfishermen, philosophical Indians, New Age religious groups, and even grizzly bears drunk on fermented corn.
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Wayshowing is a collection of maps, signs and electronic media that have been developed to aid travelers in their journey. A system of such information is critical to help travelers successfully choose a destination and plan their itineraries as well as to help them navigate once they arrive. As such, efforts to enhance a regional tourism economy must consider the strengths and deficiencies of existing wayshowing elements located along the full length...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Leich wrote a rich and expressive account of his travels during the Depression--from riding the rails, floating over 200 miles of the Yellowstone River, and finally his attempt to run the Colorado River from its source to the Gulf of Mexico. His writing is wonderfully engaging and this is a grand adventure story to enjoy. He built a kayak and then a wooden boat to run the river. He is the first person known to have run the Colorado River from its...
Author
Pub. Date
1979
Description
John Muir first saw Alaska only twelve years after it was purchased from Russia by the United States. The year was 1879. Four more times he was drawn back to this northern land of glaciers. But it was his first impressions of the far north, his first adventures amid the rivers of ice, the time of his discovery of Glacier Bay and the largest of Alaska's tidal glaciers, now named in his honor, that returned most vividly to his mind when he set down...
87) The Oregon Trail
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 22
Description
A journal of the "tour" of an Eastern journalist through the American West in 1846.
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"Does George Washington still matter? The ... author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
Author
Pub. Date
1908
Description
The Cruise of the Snark (1911) is a work of travel literature by American writer Jack London. In 1906, after achieving early success as an author of novels and short stories, London began dreaming of the adventures of his youth. Inspired, he spent a fortune to build a 45-foot yacht complete with two sails and a 70-horsepower engine, powerful enough to carry him across the Pacific. Envisioning a seven-year journey, London and his wife Charmian set...
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The recommendations contained in this Corridor Management Plan (CMP) are intended to help the Byway move into the next phase of its existence. Changes in travel patterns and behaviors, the increasing use of the internet in travel planning, population growth on Colorado's Western Slope, and increasing demands on Byway resources necessitate updating the CMP to position the UTB for success in its next 25 years.
Author
Pub. Date
1988.
Description
Austin's famous poetic study of the lands between Death Valley and the High Sierras features fourteen sketches describing plants, animals, mountains, birds, skies, Indians, prospectors, towns, and other aspects, portraying the desert as a place of rare, austere beauty that weaves a lasting spell over its inhabitants
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Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with...
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