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Author : William Joseph Heffernan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Edward M. Kern, Artist and Explorer written by William Joseph Heffernan and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804738835
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Photographers of the Far West written by Peter E. Palmquist and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extraordinarily comprehensive, well-documented, biographical dictionary of some 1,500 photographers (and workers engaged in photographically related pursuits) active in western North America before 1865 is enriched by some 250 illustrations. Far from being simply a reference tool, the book provides a rich trove of fascinating narratives that cover both the professional and personal lives of a colorful cast of characters.
Author : James Hervey Simpson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806135700
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Navaho Expedition written by James Hervey Simpson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1849, the Corps of Topographical Engineers commissioned Lieutenant James H. Simpson to undertake the first survey of Navajo country in present-day New Mexico. Accompanying Simpson was a military force commanded by Colonel John M. Washington, sent to negotiate peace with the Navajo. A keen observer, Simpson kept a journal that provided valuable information on the party’s interactions with Indians and also about the land’s features, including important pueblo ruins at Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. His careful observations informed subsequent military expeditions, emigrant trains, the selection of Indian reservations, and the charting of a transcontinental railroad. Editor Frank McNitt discusses the expedition’s lasting importance to the development of the West, and his research is enriched by illustrations and maps by artists Richard and Edward Kern. Military historian Durwood Ball contributes a new foreword.
Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184019
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book So Rugged and Mountainous written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service’s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources—personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts—into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins.
Author : Tom Chaffin
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806146079
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Pathfinder written by Tom Chaffin and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date”—Howard R. Lamar, Yale University The career of John Charles Frémont (1813–90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination in the Gilded Age. Tom Chaffin's biography demonstrates Frémont's vital importance to the history of American empire, and illuminates his role in shattering long-held myths about the ecology and habitability of the American West. As the most celebrated American explorer and mapper of his time, Frémont stood at the center of the vast federal project of western exploration and conquest. His expeditions between 1838 and 1854 captured the public's imagination, inspired Americans to accept their nation's destiny as a vast continental empire, and earned him his enduring sobriquet, the Pathfinder. But Frémont was more than an explorer. Chaffin's dramatic narrative includes Frémont's varied experiences as an entrepreneur, abolitionist, Civil War general, husband to the remarkable Jessie Benton Frémont, two-time Republican presidential candidate, and Gilded Age aristocrat. This new paperback edition of Pathfinder features a new, additional, updated introduction by the author.
Author : John Charles Frémont (d)
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252002496
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont: suppl. Proceedings of the court-martial written by John Charles Frémont (d) and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret M. Wheat
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174538
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes written by Margaret M. Wheat and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring person who has worked with the Native Americans of the West will testify to the difficulties of obtaining the information he seeks. They are an old and proud and reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. In her twenty years of painstaking work with the Northern Paiutes, Margaret Wheat earned that full measure of acceptance. She tells the story of the generation of Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by the arrival of pioneers and prospectors in 1849.
Author : Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Frémont and '49 written by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Sale written by American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States Geographic Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Decisions of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Collector written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1954 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author : Campbell Grant
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816533482
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Canyon de Chelly written by Campbell Grant and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the exception of the Grand Canyon itself, none of the great gorges of the American Southwest is more uniquely beautiful than Canyon de Chelly, with its sheer red cliffs and innumerable prehistoric Indian dwellings. Of all the important centers of prehistoric Anasazi culture, only this magnificent canyon shows an unbroken record of settlement for more than 1,000 years. In this liberally illustrated book, rock art authority Campbell Grant examines four aspects of the spectacular canyon: its physical characteristics, its history of human habitation, its explorers and archaeologists, and its countless rock paintings and petroglyphs. Grant surveys 96 sites in the two main canyons and offers an interpretation of the rock art found there.
Author : Scott Stine
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153148
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Way Across the Mountain written by Scott Stine and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first non-Native people to traverse the range from east to west. That crossing, made long and brutal by bewildering terrain and deep snow, is widely and rightly considered a milestone in the exploration of intermontane North America. Following Walker’s death in 1876, an alluring tale arose concerning his trans-Sierran route. In the course of the crossing, goes the story, Walker found himself on the northern rim of Yosemite Valley at the plungepoint of North America’s tallest waterfall, staring into the most awesome mountain chasm on the continent. Over the decades since then, this time-honored tale has hardened to folklore. Dozens of historical works have construed it as a towering moment in the opening of the West. But in fact this tale of Yosemite’s discovery has no basis or support in firsthand accounts of the 1833 Sierran crossing. Moreover, there is much in those accounts that contradicts Yosemite lore, and much that points to a trans-Sierran route well north of Yosemite Valley. In A Way Across the Mountain, Scott Stine reconstructs Walker’s 1833 route over the Sierra. Stine draws on his own intimate knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, and employs the detailed travel narrative of the Walker brigade’s field clerk, Zenas Leonard. Stine documents the inception, growth, and persistence of the Yosemite Myth and explores the extent to which that lore has overshadowed Walker’s greatest discovery—that the huge swath of continent between the Wasatch Front and the Sierran crest is hydrographically closed, draining not to an ocean, but to salty lakes and desert sands.
Author : Nancy Capace
Publisher : North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN 13 : 040309318X
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of California written by Nancy Capace and published by North American Book Dist LLC. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : North American Book Dist LLC
ISBN 13 : 0403098629
Total Pages : 839 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of California written by and published by North American Book Dist LLC. This book was released on 1997 with total page 839 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1126 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (22 download)
Download or read book “The” Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America ... Ed. by Richard Peters written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 1126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
