West Routt Library District

Franz Wisner thought he had it all--until, days before they were to be married, his fiancée called it off. His family and friends decided he should have a big party and a honeymoon anyway, with his brother Kurt as his travel companion. Then he lost his dream job, so the brothers decided to leave their old lives behind them. They quit their jobs, sold all their possessions, and traveled around the world, visiting fifty-three countries for the next...

When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, people have been granted a look into Bourdain's life through the stories and recollections of...

The story of the First Transcontinental Motor Train, an expedition of "eighty-one vehicles and nearly three hundred men" from the White House in Washington, D.C. to San Francisco in 1919.

Polly Letofsky walked 14,124 miles over 5 years through 22 countries on 4 continents around the world for breast cancer. From her September 11 walk through Muslim villages in Southeast Asia, a determined adventure into India, and a lonely rain-soaked path through Europe, Polly tackled a rapidly changing world and educated thousands of women one step at a time.

"Called a "man of genius" by his close friend Thomas Jefferson, John Ledyard led, by any standard, a remarkable life. Between his birth to a sea captain's family in Connecticut in 1751 and his death along the Nile in Cairo in 1789, he became the original American explorer. Abandoning his studies at Dartmouth - then a fledgling school on the New England frontier - he carved a dugout canoe and paddled 140 miles down the Connecticut River. He sailed...