Kiowa County Public Library District

More than four hundred drawings accompany descriptions and historical background on hundreds of iron artifacts used by mountain men from the early 1800s to the mid-1840s, covering shotguns, rifles, hatchets, axes, knives, traps, and other tools.

For over thirty years, from the time of Lewis and Clark into the 1840s, the mountain men explored the Great American West. As trappers in a hostile, trackless land, their exploits opened the gates of the mountains for the wagon trains of pioneers who followed them. In Give Your Heart to the Hawks, Win Blevins presents a poetic tribute to these dauntless "first Westerners" and their incredible adventures. Here, among many, are the stories of:* John...

Explains how the fur trade played a part in the social dynamics of the nineteenth century, such as relations with Native Americans, foreign policy, explorations of natural resources and the establishment of business.