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Author : Richard M. Clokey
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Life of William H. Ashley written by Richard M. Clokey and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dale Lowell Morgan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The West of Willam H. Ashley written by Dale Lowell Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James M. Aton
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 1457180952
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The River Knows Everything written by James M. Aton and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desolation Canyon is one of the West's wild treasures. Visitors come to study, explore, run the river, and hike a canyon that is deeper at its deepest than the Grand Canyon, better preserved than most of the Colorado River system, and full of eye-catching geology-castellated ridges, dramatic walls, slickrock formations, and lovely beaches. Rafting the river, one may see wild horses, blue herons, bighorn sheep, and possibly a black bear. Signs of previous people include the newsworthy, well-preserved Fremont Indian ruins along Range Creek and rock art panels of Nine Mile Canyon, both Desolation Canyon tributaries. Historic Utes also pecked rock art, including images of graceful horses and lively locomotives, in the upper canyon. Remote and difficult to access, Desolation has a surprisingly lively history. Cattle and sheep herding, moonshine, prospecting, and hideaways brought a surprising number of settlers--ranchers, outlaws, and recluses--to the canyon.
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627798838
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
Download or read book A Life Wild and Perilous written by Robert M. Utley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier.” —Jay P. Dolan, The New York Times Book Review Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders—such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith—opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. These and other Mountain Men opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845–1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands—thus making the Pacific Ocean America’s western boundary.
Author : John D. Unruh
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252063602
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (636 download)
Download or read book The Plains Across written by John D. Unruh and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
Author : William H. Ashley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546376668
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Journal of William H. Ashley written by William H. Ashley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William H. Ashley, with his partner Andrew Henry, owned a fur trading company based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Prior to the period covered by these papers, he had lost a fortune in an ill-fated attempt to establish a trapping business on the upper Missouri river. His new plan was trap the region to the south, just over the divide. The previous year, an Ashley-Henry party led by Jedediah Smith had crossed the continental divide at what came to be known as South Pass and found the valley of the Green river to be rich with beaver. Consequently, the remainder of Ashley's fur company left St. Louis and made their way up the Platte. Ashley left two documents describing the events of 1825: One is what appears to be his field diary, containing daily entries. The other is a letter to Gen. Atkinson written after Ashley's return that fall, and contains a narrative of his 1825 season in the Rockies. These two documents are mostly consistent, although the narrative appears to have been written from memory because in some cases, details are different from those recorded in the contemporaneous diary. The diary was kept from March 25 to June 27, 1825. The diary commences on the Platte, just east of the continental divide. It describes the journey to the Green River and the division of the trapping party there. It also details Ashley's trip down the Green River in bullboats, and ends just a few days before Ashley's parties met on the Henry's Fork for the first Rocky Mountain Rendezvous. The narrative covers a longer period of time, from the time he left Ft. Atkinson on November 3, 1824 until he reached the Yellowstone below Big Horn Mountain on the 7th day of August, 1825. From there he proceeded downriver in boats with his rich cargo of furs, to the settlements.
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295643
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)
Download or read book After Lewis and Clark written by Robert M. Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea.
Author : John Phillip Reid
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806133744
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (337 download)
Download or read book Contested Empire written by John Phillip Reid and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do law and legal procedures exist only so long as there is an official authority to enforce them? Or do we have an unspoken sense of law and ethics? To answer these questions, John Phillip Reid’s Contested Empire explores the implicit notions of law shared by American and British fur traders in the Snake River country of Idaho and surrounding areas in the early nineteenth century. Both the United States and Great Britain had claimed this region, and passions were intense. Focusing mainly on Canadian explorer and trader Peter Skene Ogden, Reid finds that both side largely avoided violence and other difficulties because they held the same definitions of property, contract, conversion, and possession. In 1824, the Hudson’s Bay Company directed Ogden to decimate the furbearing animal population of the Snake River country, thus marking the region a “fur desert.” With this mandate, Great Britain hoped to neutralize any interest American furtrappers could have in the area. Such a mandate set British and American fur men on a collision course, but Ogden and his American counterparts implicitly followed a kind of law and procedure and observed a mutual sense of property and rights even as the two sides vied for control of the fur trade. Failing to take legal culture into consideration, some previous accounts have depicted these conflicts as mere episodes of lawless frontier violence. Reid expands our understanding of the West by considering the unspoken sense of law that existed, despite the lack of any formalized authorities, in what had otherwise been considered a “lawless” time.
Author : Jay H. Buckley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Explorers of the American West written by Jay H. Buckley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time. This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document's relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective. This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers' historical literacy by modeling historians' methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.
Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Journal written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1366 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."
Author : Keith L. Bryant
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803260665
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)
Download or read book History of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway written by Keith L. Bryant and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859, Cyrus K. Holliday envisioned a railroad that would run from Kansas to the Pacific, increasing the commerce and prosperity of the nation. With farsighted investors and shrewd management, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad grew from Holliday's idea into a model of the modern, rapid, and efficient railroad. There were many growing pains. Rustlers, thieves, and desperadoes were as thick as the cattle in Kansas when the first rails were laid. When a conductor, toting a pistol, asked a grizzled prospector where he was heading, the old man replied, "Hell." "That's 65_ and get off at Dodge," the weary conductor declared. Once built with rails from Wales laid on ties of oak and walnut, the railroad survived the economic and climatic hardships of the late nineteenth century, and eventually extended from Chicago to San Francisco, with over 12,000 miles of track and substantial holdings in oil fields, timber land, uranium mines, pipe lines, and real estate.
Author : Michigan. Legislature. Senate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal written by Michigan. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes extra sessions.
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803297326
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (973 download)
Download or read book The Fur Trade of the American West written by David J. Wishart and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur trade a valuable service."--Journal of the Early Republic. A standard reference work [that] should be required reading for all students of the American west."--Pacific Historical Review. "The whole [fur trade] system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. This is an impressive achievement for a book so brief. . . . [It] opens out onto new methodological vistas and paradigms in western history."--William H. Goetzmann, New Mexico Historical Review David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distin-guished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available from the University of Nebraska Press.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1906 pages
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Download or read book Typographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michigan. Legislature. Senate
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Documents Accompanying the Journal written by Michigan. Legislature. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 680 pages
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Download or read book Iowa Journal of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
