Crowley County Combined Library

A book about Darwin's expedition to South America and adjacent islands, where his observations on natural history and geology in his famous journal, The Voyage of the Beagle.

Includes chapters on the Santa Fe Trail, the Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, the California Trail, the Gila Trail, and the Boseman Trail.

Describes the 13 parks, monuments, and preserves of Alaska.

Describes different aspects of counties within the South Platte Valley District of Colorado. Includes information on climate, industries, crops, and population.

"On a journey begun twenty years earlier, Daryl Farmer, a twenty-year-old two-time college dropout, did what lost men have so often done in this country: he headed west. Twenty years later and seventy pounds heavier, with the yellowing journals from that transformative five-thousand-mile bicycle trek in his pack, Farmer set out to retrace his path. This is his story of pursuing that distant summer and that distant dream of home, where home is endless...

Robert Pinsky is Professor of English at Boston University and an editor of the weekly online magazine Slate. He is the author of many books of poetry and literary criticism. He served two terms as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1997-2000. This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet...

Describes the diversity of life in Mexico, it's peoples and the complex cultural heritage.