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The Great Platte River Road

Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803281530
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The Great Platte River Road written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas?the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.

Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890

Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496205243
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Fort Laramie and the Pageant of the West, 1834-1890 written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To weary travelers on the Oregon Trail during the middle decades of the nineteenth century, Fort Laramie was a welcome sight. Its walls and flag-decked towers rose from the high plains, their solidity suggesting that the white man was gaining a toehold in the wilderness. Hafen and Young present the colorful history of Fort Laramie from its establishment as Fort John in 1834 to its abandonment in 1890. Early on, the fort was controlled by the American Fur Company and patronized by trappers like Jim Bridger and Kit Carson. Then it was a vital supply center and rest stop for a tide of emigrants--missionaries, Mormons, forty-niners, and homeseekers. As more wagons rolled west and the Pony Express came through, the need for protection increased; in 1849, Fort Laramie was converted from a trapper's post into a military fort. Down through the years there were skirmishes with the Plains Indians, who sometimes came to the fort to barter and to treat. The peace council of 1851--one of the largest gatherings of tribes ever seen in the Old West--is here described in fascinating detail. The cast of characters in this great historical pageant reads like a who's who of the American West.

Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier

Author : David Lavender
Publisher : National Park Service Division of Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Fort Laramie and the Changing Frontier written by David Lavender and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1983 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and illustrates the history of Fort Laramie between 1834 and 1890 and its importance as a trade center and military post. Also contains a concise bibliographic essay.

Fort Laramie Park History, 1834-1977

Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fort Laramie Park History, 1834-1977 written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Forty-niners

Author : Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Forty-niners written by Archer Butler Hulbert and published by . This book was released on 1987-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Fort Laramie National Monument, Wyoming written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Park Architecture Sourcebook

Author : Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568987422
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book The National Park Architecture Sourcebook written by Harvey H. Kaiser and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2008-03-20 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In one accessible, engaging, and easy-to-use volume readers will find historical context, directions, factual information, and analytical architectural analysis for more than two hundred places of interest across the United States. The traveler (armchair, behind the wheel, or on foot), the researcher (seeking a comprehensive view of some of America's greatest ideas and accomplishments), and the architect and landscape architect (seeking sources of inspiration) will find a rewarding journey inside this book."--BOOK JACKET.

Frontiersmen in Blue

Author : Robert Marshall Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295506
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Frontiersmen in Blue written by Robert Marshall Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1967-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frontiersmen in Blue is a comprehensive history of the achievements and failures of the United States Regular and Volunteer Armies that confronted the Indian tribes of the West in the two decades between the Mexican War and the close of the Civil War. Between 1848 and 1865 the men in blue fought nearly all of the western tribes. Robert Utley describes many of these skirmishes in consummate detail, including descriptions of garrison life that was sometimes agonizingly isolated, sometimes caught in the lightning moments of desperate battle.

My Own Pioneers 1830-1918

Author : Kathryn J. Kappler
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1478737018
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book My Own Pioneers 1830-1918 written by Kathryn J. Kappler and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the fascinating true stories of one family through the Mormon pioneer era—stories that follow four generations and several of the author’s family lines as they and their fellow pioneers help shape the early history of the Mormon Church, the American West, and even Mexico. This memorable journey is the culmination of fifteen years of painstaking research as the author carefully reconstructs the pioneer struggles from before 1830 to 1918 using information from family journals, memoirs, histories and letters. Volume II (Pioneering the West/Defending Zion, 1847-1880) continues the history by recounting the family’s involvement in the opening and colonization of the Great Basin. It recounts in detail the dangerous crossing of the plains in covered wagons, with handcarts, and on foot. It tells of explorations, of planting tiny settlements in remote regions, eating roots and rawhide to survive, and fighting insect hordes and hostile Indians. Volume II also tells how the Mormons faced off the U.S. Army, and how they helped build the railroad across the plains. My Own Pioneers is an important work illuminating the legacy of the Mormon pioneers. It is a compilation of true chronological accounts through which their lives, their sacrifices, and their considerable accomplishments, despite terrible hardship, may be honored. With its extensive index, this book provides an excellent research tool for academics as well as history enthusiasts; and it uplifts every reader by showcasing the enduring strength and mighty faith of these pioneers.

Soldier and Brave

Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Soldier and Brave written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Settlement of America

Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454618
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Settlement of America written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

All Because of a Mormon Cow

Author : John D. McDermott
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616302X
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book All Because of a Mormon Cow written by John D. McDermott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant’s cow. The terrible series of events that followed, which became known as the Grattan Massacre, unleashed the opening volley in the First Sioux War—and marked the beginning of a generation of Indian warfare on the Great Plains. All Because of a Mormon Cow tells, for the first time, the full story of this seminal event in the history of the American West. Where previous accounts of the Grattan Massacre have made do with limited primary sources, this volume includes eighty contemporary, annotated accounts of the fight and its aftermath, many newly discovered or recovered from obscurity. Recorded when the events were fresh in their narrators’ memories, these documents bring a sense of immediacy to a story more than a century and a half old. Alongside the voices heard here—of the Indian leaders Little Thunder and Big Partisan, of Mormons from passing emigrant trains, and of government officials charged with investigating the massacre, among many others—the editors include a substantial and thorough introduction that underscores the significance of the Grattan Massacre in all its depth and detail. All Because of a Mormon Cow offers a better understanding even as it evokes the drama of a highly controversial episode in the history of relations between Indians and non-Indians in the American West.

Historical Handbook Series

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Historical Handbook Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scotts Bluff National Monument

Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scotts Bluff National Monument written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska

Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Scotts Bluff National Monument, Nebraska written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187778
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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 604 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.