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Books with author David Lavender

  • Bent's Fort

    David Lavender

    Paperback (Bison Books, March 1, 1972)
    Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.
  • Bent's Fort

    David Lavender

    eBook (Bison Books, Dec. 1, 2013)
    Bent's Fort was a landmark of the American frontier, a huge private fort on the upper Arkansas River in present southeastern Colorado. Established by the adventurers Charles and William Bent, it stood until 1849 as the center of the Indian trade of the central plains. David Lavender's chronicle of these men and their part in the opening of the West has been conceded a place beside the works of Parkman and Prescott.
  • Bent's Fort

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Doubleday, March 15, 1954)
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  • Snowbound: The Tragic Story Of The Donner Party

    David Lavender

    Paperback (Scholastic Inc., Jan. 1, 1948)
    Relates the ordeals faced by a group of pioneers on their journey from Illinois to California in 1846.
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  • Mother Earth, Father Sky: Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Holiday House, July 1, 1998)
    Complete with glossary, maps, bibliography, and index, this comprehensive survey explores how, in early December 1888, two Colorado ranchers stumbled upon the ruins of Anasazi dwellings, built high into the cliffs in what is now Mesa Verde National Park.
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  • Snowbound

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Holiday House, March 1, 1996)
    Traveling westward with a team of emigrating families in 1846, Jacob and George Donner encounter tragedy and sorrow in the face of sickness, rivalries, hostile Native Americans, low supplies, and the forthcoming winter.
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  • Santa Fe Trail

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Holiday House, March 1, 1995)
    A history of the famed trail leading into the West from Missouri to Santa Fe covers the years from 1822 to 1879, when the Santa Fe Trail was most busy, before being replaced by the railroad.
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  • The Story of California

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (American Heritage, March 15, 1971)
    The story of California has been written, edited , and illustrated with two primary goals in mind: to recreate for the children the color, the excitement, the achievements --and the failures--that together make i-their California heritage; and secondly, to demonstrate the relevancy of that heritage to the challenges of the present and the future.
  • The Santa Fe Trail

    Lavender David

    Paperback (SCHOLASTIC, March 15, 2004)
    Scholastic
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  • Bent's Fort

    David Lavender

    Mass Market Paperback (Dolphin Books, March 12, 1954)
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  • Bent's Fort

    David Lavender

    Hardcover (Peter Smith Pub Inc, Feb. 1, 1985)
    Lavender, David
  • Snowbound: The Tragic Story of the Donner Party.

    David Lavender

    Bath Book (Scholastic, March 18, 1997)
    1997, oversize paperback reprint, Scholastic, NY. 87 pages. Fascinating historical photos, illustrations. Author David Lavender has written many books on the West. This is an exceptional, well done account of what happened to a party of settlers headed West, who took a short cut, trying to make the trip to California easier. By the end of October 1846, they found themselves stranded at the edge of Sierra Nevada, with no food or supplies. Here is the famous story and what happened next. Fascinating.
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