Literary Library

Jedidiah Strong Smith

by Angela Beck
January 6, 1799 - May 27, 1831American clerk, pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author and cartographerAuthor of "The Travels of Jedidiah Smi...
American West Author California Cartographer Clerk Expedition Frontier Frontiersman Hunt Hunter Hunting Map Maps Pioneer Southwest Trapper West

Terry C. Johnston

by Angela Beck
January 1, 1947 - March 25, 2001American western novelistAuthor of more than 30 westerns including "Carry the Wind", "Crack in the Sky" and "Buffal...
American West Cowboy Cowboys Native Native American Novel Novelist U.S. West Western

Carl Abbott

by Angela Beck
December 3, 1944 - American historian, urbanist and academicAuthor of "The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern American West", "How Cities ...
Academic American History American West City Historian Metropolitan Science Fiction Urban Urbanist West