San Antonio College Library

The Texan-santa Fe expedition and its historically significant aftermath, with emphasis on the human element. Contains exhaustive list of the pioneers.

Recounts the life of the Shoshoni Indian woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their Northwest expedition in 1804.

Uses previously unknown information about Sacagawea's later years to separate fact from myth about the courageous Indian woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

Follows the achievements of the explorers, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and the other members of their expedition.

Account of the Transglobe Expedition, 1979-1982, led by Ranulph Fiennes. This was the first expedition to circumnavigate the earth via both poles.

Prieto examines the operation led by General John Pershing to search for, capture, and destroy Francisco "Pancho" Villa and his revolutionary army in northern Mexico in the year prior to the United States' entry into World War I. This campaign marked one of the final times cavalry was used on a large scale, and it was one of the first to use trucks and airplanes in the field. While Pershing's troops failed to capture Villa, both Regular Army troops...

The story of the bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil.

"This book tells the story of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his British team who in November 1911 began a trek across the snows of Antarctica, striving to be the first to reach the South Pole. After marching and skiing more than nine hundred miles, the men reached the Pole in January 1912, only to suffer the terrible realization that a group of five Norwegians had been there about a month earlier. On their return journey, Scott and his four companions...