Bøger af James P. Ronda

In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America's Last Great Places, the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma.

In his 1836 account, Washington Irving immortalized Astoria, but it has been a footnote to the history of western expansion - a reminder of John Jacob Astor's failed attempt to establish a fur-trading empire at the mouth of the Columbia from 1810 to 1813. This book tells the importance of the Astoria venture.

An important contribution to Indian ethnohistory and to the literature of the Lewis and Clark expedition.