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Book Synopsis Diary of a Journey Overland, Through the Maritime Provinces of China from Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the Years 1819 and 1820 by : J. R. (supercargo.)
Download or read book Diary of a Journey Overland, Through the Maritime Provinces of China from Manchao, on the South Coast of Hainan, to Canton in the Years 1819 and 1820 written by J. R. (supercargo.) and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey by : Lillian Schlissel
Download or read book Women's Diaries of the Westward Journey written by Lillian Schlissel and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded edition of one of the most original and provocative works of American history of the last decade, which documents the pioneering experiences and grit of American frontier women.
Book Synopsis Scharmann's Overland Journey to California by : Hermann B. Scharmann
Download or read book Scharmann's Overland Journey to California written by Hermann B. Scharmann and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herman Scharmann left Germany as head of a company of gold-seekers bound for California in 1849. Scharmann's overland journey to California (1918) describes his family's journey from New York to their wagon train in Independence, Missouri, and the trip across the Plains via Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. When his wife and daughter die shortly after reaching California, Scharmann and two sons push ahead to the gold fields at Feather River and Middle Fork, and the American River and Negro Bar. He offers a brutal picture of the exploitation of emigrant parties and of the drudgery of prospecting and of towns like Marysville, Sacramento, and San Francisco, 1849-1851.
Book Synopsis The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana) by : Robert Lewis Taylor
Download or read book The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters (Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana) written by Robert Lewis Taylor and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than one million copies in print since its first publication in 1959, this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic details the journey of 13-year-old Jaimie and his father from Kentucky to gold-rush California in 1849.
Book Synopsis Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 by : Sandra L. Myres
Download or read book Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 written by Sandra L. Myres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Book Synopsis The Mountains We Have Crossed by : Sarah Gilbert White Smith
Download or read book The Mountains We Have Crossed written by Sarah Gilbert White Smith and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four newlywed couples, along with one single man, were sent to Oregon in 1838 to reinforce the two-year-old mission established by Marcus Whitman and Henry Spalding. These reinforcements were to become legendary in the history of the Pacific Northwest for the incessant bickering and petty jealousies that eventually caused the deaths of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and forced the abandonment of the mission effort. ø Uncertainty and conflict as well as willpower and endurance mark the story of the Oregon Mission and its charismatic, though contentious, missionaries. Simply getting to Oregon in the 1830s was a feat. Once they arrived, their efforts were doomed by their inability to agree on strategies for converting the Nez Percä and Spokane Indians. ø This Bison Books edition contains the very personal diary of Sarah Smith, ?the weeping one? as the Indians remembered her. When read in chronological sequence with the nearly one hundred letters written by her husband, Asa, a compelling picture of their journey to Oregon and subsequent life at the mission emerges. Other letters, documents, and biographical sketches enhance the volume.
Book Synopsis With Golden Visions Bright Before Them by : Will Bagley
Download or read book With Golden Visions Bright Before Them written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. Traditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins. Beautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them continues the saga that began with Bagley’s highly acclaimed, award-winning So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.
Book Synopsis The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Philology by : Sir George Grey
Download or read book The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey, K.C.B. Philology written by Sir George Grey and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World Rushed In by : J. S. Holliday
Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Book Synopsis The library of ... sir George Grey, K.C.B. [a catalogue, compiled by W.H.I. Bleek, sir G. Grey and J. Cameron]. by : Wilhelm Heinrich I. Bleek
Download or read book The library of ... sir George Grey, K.C.B. [a catalogue, compiled by W.H.I. Bleek, sir G. Grey and J. Cameron]. written by Wilhelm Heinrich I. Bleek and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey: pt. 1. Australia, by W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 2. Papuan languages of the Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides, by Sir G. Grey. pt. 3. Fiji Islands and Rotuma (with supplements to part 2 and part 1) by Sir G. Grey and W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 4. New Zealand, the Chatham Islands and Auckland Islands, by Sir G. Grey and W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 4. (continuation) Polynesia and Borneo by : Sir George Grey
Download or read book The Library of His Excellency Sir George Grey: pt. 1. Australia, by W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 2. Papuan languages of the Loyalty Islands and New Hebrides, by Sir G. Grey. pt. 3. Fiji Islands and Rotuma (with supplements to part 2 and part 1) by Sir G. Grey and W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 4. New Zealand, the Chatham Islands and Auckland Islands, by Sir G. Grey and W.H.I. Bleek. pt. 4. (continuation) Polynesia and Borneo written by Sir George Grey and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Diaries by : William Matthews
Download or read book American Diaries written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The People's Treasures by : John Robert Thompson
Download or read book The People's Treasures written by John Robert Thompson and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1993 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colourfully illustrated series of articles written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the National Library of Australia. Discusses the library's collections which include early Australian manuscripts, documentary paintings and rare maps and books. Also discusses related topics such as using and interpreting the national collection. Includes chapter notes and sources. The contributors are experts in their fields, and include well-known historian Stuart Macintyre and Jonathan Wantrup, author of 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900'.
Book Synopsis Gold Rush: The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850 by : Samuel A. Lane
Download or read book Gold Rush: The Overland Diary of Samuel A. Lane, 1850 written by Samuel A. Lane and published by Summit County Historical Society. This book was released on 1984 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overland diary of Samuel A. Lane from Summit County, Ohio to the gold fields of California in 1850.
Book Synopsis Out of the Silence by : Robert Foster
Download or read book Out of the Silence written by Robert Foster and published by Wakefield Press. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the nature and extent of violence on South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of the law, and the resonances of that in social memory. What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten?
Book Synopsis British Autobiographies by : William Matthews
Download or read book British Autobiographies written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Book Synopsis Racial Encounters in the Multi-cultural West by : Gordon Morris Bakken
Download or read book Racial Encounters in the Multi-cultural West written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.