Ruby Sisson Library

"In the winter of 1846-47, a group of eighty-seven pioneers heading from the Midwest to California found themselves snowbound in the Sierra Nevada mountain range with no way forward and no food or supplies. While forty- eight of the group members survived, the others perished due to extreme weather, starvation, and illness. To survive, the remaining people resorted to extreme measures ... including cannibalism. Learn about the many miscalculations,...

Recounts the life and varied achievements of Kit Carson--the trapper, Indian fighter, guide, and buffalo hunter until the fall of 1856.

Portrays the people and times, the drama and danger of the developing frontier in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century United States.

Biography of a young man who wanted to explore and loved the outdoors and his life in Kentucky with his family.

Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.

Profiles the childhood of Davy Crockett, pioneer and patriot.

A biography of the African American pioneer.

Portrayed by past historians as the greatest guide and Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson has become in recent years a historical pariah--a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, and an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. Many historians now question both his reputation and his place in the pantheon of American heroes. Here we are urged to reconsider Carson yet again. Carson was a man of the nineteenth century, whose racial...