First published in the year 1911, George Bird Grinnell's novel 'Trails of the Pathfinders' is a collection of captivating articles through which the author examines the courage and determination of famous explorers including Lewis, Clark and Zebulon Pike.

"An anonymous compilation of impassioned verse celebrating in a variety of poetic forms the heroic accomplishments and political promise of the Byronic Fremont, who was then the Republican Presidential candidate. Sample titles include "The Hour and the Man, "The Nebraska Bison-Hunt," "The Stand at Hawk's Peak," etc." [Sabin] "It relates to episodes in the life of John C. Fremont, more especially during his career as an explorer and one of the conquerors of California. It was collected and issued during his unsuccessful presidential campaign." [Cowan].

Trails of the PathfindersByGeorge Bird Grinnell

First published over 100 years ago, Trails of the Pathfinders is George Bird Grinnell's collection of captivating articles that first appeared in Forest and Stream, his magazine dedicated to the outdoors and the nation's fledgling conservation movement. Grinnell examines the courage and determination of famous explorers including Lewis and Clark and Zebulon Pike.

Responding to the enduring lure of the West that captured his imagination as a child, Jerry Ellis decides to follow the trail of the Pony Express, a short-lived, hell-for-leather mail delivery service that lasted just one and a half years starting in 1860 but has marked itself in national memory ever since. Starting his journey in St. Joseph, Missouri, Ellis follows the Pony Express trail across Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Nevada to the end of the line in San Francisco. Ellis succeeds in completing his twenty-one-hundred-mile journey by foot, horseback, covered wagon, hitchhiking, and canoe. Open to what he finds, including his own frailties, Ellis reports with sympathy and humor on the strange variety of the modern West.