This page contains the tools you need to locate print (non-digital) books for your research, along with some selected titles from the Lewis Library related to the history of the American West.
Lewis Library Online Catalog
When looking for print books in the library, you may find it more useful to browse the shelves than to use the catalog alone. To begin your browsing quest, the first step is to decide what call numbers you should look for. A "call number" is the string of letters and numbers that tells you what book is where on the library shelves. The first one or two letters in the call number you see on the online catalog tell you what the general subject of the book is, and books are sorted alphabetically, so they will be grouped together by those letters.
Western Lives : a biographical history of the American West
By Grit and Grace : eleven women who shaped the American West
John Sutter : a life on the North American Frontier
Jim Bridger, Mountain Man : a biography
Beyond the Missouri : the story of the American West
Cattlemen : from the Rio Grande across the far Marias
Companion to the American West
Historical Atlas of the American West
Oh, what a slaughter : massacres in the American West, 1846-1890
True West : authenticity and the American West
Twenty Thousand Roads : women, movement, and the West
Wagon's West
Custer Companion : a comprehensive guide to the life of George Armstrong Custer and the Plains Indian Wars
Daily Life on the Nineteenth Century American Frontier
Oxford History of the American West
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