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Our bookstore is the best one-stop source for unique books, maps, videos, gifts and other materials related to the American West and the frontier. You will find material on western exploration, overland migration, the military and their forts, the telegraph and mail transportation. If you are interested in learning more about Native Americans, Lewis and Clark, Mountain Men, the Pony Express, or in reading accounts and diaries of emigrants traveling the California Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Santa Fe Trail, the Overland Trail, the Cherokee Trail, and the Mormon Pioneer Trail, we think you will find it here!

Whether you are shopping for children or adults, introductory material or technical details, we have the most complete selection available.

Your purchase dollars help accomplish our mission: the preservation of our western trails.

The Look of the Elephant
by Andy Hammond

Collection of diary quotes is a must-have for any student of the overland experience. Keynoted by maps, overviews of the trails and jumping off places, and thumbnail biographies of the diarists ...

Rediscovered Frontiersman: Timothy Goodale
by James McGill

A comprehensive account of a remarkable western frontiersman, his Indian wife, and the trail he pioneered. Goodale left his home at age 19 and began fur trapping and trading in the West ...