Trace the Exploration and Settlement of the West
Angle of Repose. Wallace Stegner. New York: Penguin Books, 1971
Bound for Oregon. Jean Van Leeuwen. New York: Dial Books, 1994
Centennial. James Michener. New York: Fawcett Crest, 1974
Dream West. David Nevin. New York: Putnam, 1983
Give Your Heart to the Hawks. Winfred Blevins. Los Angeles: Nash Publishing, 1973
Mountain Man. Vardis Fisher. Boise: Opal Laurel Holmes, 1965
"Fur Traders Descending the Missouri" by George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879). "On June 4, 1845 Bingham returned from a winter stay in central Missouri to St. Louis, bringing with him several paintings and many sketches. This apparently was one of the pictures that he brought with him, and he sent it later that year for sale to the American Art-Union. - Metropolitan Museum of Art Used with permission of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art at http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=33%2E61
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