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Devil's Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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 The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon church, its second Prophet and new leader, Brigham Young, determined to move the faithful out of the Midwest, where they had been constantly persecuted by their neighbors, to found a new Zion in the wilderness. In 1846-47, the Mormons made their way west, generally followin... more info>>
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In the Land of White Death [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Valerian Albanov & Jon Krakauer & David Roberts
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In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provis... more info>> 2001
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The Lost Explorer: Finding Mallory on Mount Everest [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
by Conrad Anker & David Roberts
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 On June 8, 1924, George Mallory was last seen climbing toward the summit of Mount Everest. Did he reach the summit twenty-nine years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay? On May 1, 1999, Conrad Anker discovered Mallory's body on Everest's north face, casting a new light on the mystery of the explorer who may have conquered Everest seventy-five years ago. 2001
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A Newer World: Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West [Secure Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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John C. Fremont, nearly forgotten today, was one of the giants of nineteenth-century America. He led five expeditions into the American West in the 1840s and 1850s, covering a greater area than any other explorer. His expedition reports--ghost-written by his beautiful and talented wife, Jessie Benton Fremont--were bestsellers in their day. Riding the wave of his popularity, he captured the Republican Party nomination for president in 1856 but narrowly lost the election. Fremont's scout on three ... more info>> 2001
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No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks [Secure eReader (recommended)/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time. For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to the Top is as much about the man who would become the first American to achieve that goal as it is about his stunning quest. As Viesturs recounts the stories of his most har... more info>>
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On the Ridge Between Life and Death: A Climbing Life Reexamined [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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By the time David Roberts turned twenty-two, he had been involved in three fatal mountain climbing accidents and had himself escaped death by the sheerest of luck. At age eighteen, Roberts witnessed the death of his first climbing partner in Boulder, Colorado. A few years later, he was the first on the scene of a fatal accident on Mount Washington, New Hampshire. Months afterward, while pioneering a new route in Alaska with the Harvard Mountaineering Club, Roberts watched as his climbing partner... more info>>
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The Pueblo Revolt: The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader]
by David Roberts
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With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for decades, until, in the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Pope, the Puebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, killing 401 settlers and soldie... more info>>
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