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Author : Jay H Buckley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238206
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Great Plains Forts written by Jay H Buckley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay H. Buckley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496238214
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Great Plains Forts written by Jay H. Buckley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains and prairies from precontact times to the present. Using stories to introduce patterns in fortification construction and use, Jay H. Buckley and Jeffery D. Nokes explore the eras of fort-building on the Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Stories about fortifications and fortified cities built by Indigenous peoples reveal the lesser-known history of precontact violence on the plains. Great Plains Forts includes stories of Spanish presidios and French and British outposts in their respective borderlands. Forts played a crucial role in the international fur trade and served as emporiums along the overland trails and along riverway corridors as Euro-Americans traveled into the American West. Soldiers and families resided in these military outposts, and this military presence in turn affected Indigenous Plains peoples. The appendix includes a reference guide organized by state and province, enabling readers to search easily for specific forts.
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811734967
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Forts of the Northern Plains written by Jeff Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date guide to the critical forts of the Indian campaigns of the late 19th century. Recounts the integral role of 51 forts during the decades of warfare with the Plains Indian tribes and tells of the posts fates after the Indian wars, providing narrative vignettes of incidents or points of historical importance. It also provides directions and visitor information for the following states: Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming.
Author : Douglas C. McChristian
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615859X
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Fort Laramie written by Douglas C. McChristian and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the U.S. Army posts in the West, none witnessed more history than Fort Laramie, positioned where the northern Great Plains join the Rocky Mountains. From its beginnings as a trading post in 1834 to its abandonment by the army in 1890, it was involved in the buffalo hide trade, overland migrations, Indian wars and treaties, the Utah War, Confederate maneuvering, and the coming of the telegraph and first transcontinental railroad. Douglas C. McChristian has written the first complete history of Fort Laramie, chronicling every critical stage in its existence, including its addition to the National Park System. He draws on an extraordinary array of archival materials–including those at Fort Laramie National Historic Site–to present new data about the fort and new interpretations of historical events. Emphasizing the fort's military history, McChristian documents the army's vital role in ending challenges posed by American Indians to U.S. occupation and settlement of the region, and he expands on the fort's interactions with the many Native peoples of the Central Plains and Rocky Mountains. He provides a particularly lucid description of the infamous Grattan fight of 1854, which initiated a generation of strife between Indians and U.S. soldiers, and he recounts the 1851 Horse Creek and 1868 Fort Laramie treaties. Meticulously researched and gracefully told, this is a long-overdue military history of one of the American West's most venerable historic places.
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811708365
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Great Plains Guide to Custer written by Jeff Barnes and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Very comprehensive and authoritative." --Robert M. Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin "Jeff Barnes has really done his research. . . . Highly recommended." --James Donovan, author of A Terrible Glory Guide to forts, military posts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret George Armstrong Custer's decade of operations on the Great Plains Locations in Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Montana Extended section on Little Bighorn Each entry includes directions, amenities, contact information, and recommended reading
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811759113
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill written by Jeff Barnes and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to residences, forts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret Buffalo Bill's life on the Great Plains.
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811712931
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Great Plains Guide to Buffalo Bill written by Jeff Barnes and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Anyone interested in the history of the West will enjoy this latest book by Jeff Barnes. He carefully examines the accounts of William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody's life--some true, some fictional, and others in between--and places them within the context of the Great Plains, and America as a whole, guiding readers to sites associated with Buffalo Bill and the momentous times in which he lived. It's an entertaining and helpful guide to both past and place." --Steve Friesen, director of the Buffalo Bill Museum • Guide to residences, forts, battlefields, and other sites that interpret Buffalo Bill's life on the Great Plains • Locations in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Wyoming • Helpful maps pinpoint locations • Dozens of photographs from both past and present • Includes directions, visitor information, related sites, and recommended reading
Author : A. H. Holt
Publisher : Jamie Holt Sherfy
ISBN 13 : 100542540X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book High Plains Fort written by A. H. Holt and published by Jamie Holt Sherfy. This book was released on 2021-07-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding west to find a new life for himself and his beloved Amelia, Justin faces murderers on the trail. In Bent’s fort he finds friends, but also a traitor planning to take the fort with the help of the Comanche. Warned, he prepares the fort and its people for the attack. Genre – Western Time Period – 1830’s Location – S. Carolina, Virginia and Colorado Hashtags #Adventure #War #Cattle #Cowboy #Frontier #Wonderer #Historical #Horses #Novel #Ranch #Romance #Thriller #Western #Wild West #Comanche #Colorado #Western Novel #Suspense #Family Friendly #Bent's Old Fort #Otero County #Arapaho Plains Indians #Santa Fe Trail Anne Haw Holt Ph.D., writing as A. H. Holt. Ahholt.com
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher : Bison Books
ISBN 13 : 9781496235053
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Forts of the Northern Plains written by Jeff Barnes and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Walton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sentinel of the Plains: Fort Leavenworth and the American West written by George Walton and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, has played a vital role in the maturing processes of both the United States Army and the United States. Lewis and Clark, whose expedition introduced the Louisiana Purchase to the American people, were the initial instruments of that spirit of "Manifest Destiny" which eventuated in the establishment of Fort Leavenworth, a post that was to play an instrumental role in the "settling" of the West and every American war fought after 1827. The fort, built by Colonel Leavenworth between Missouri and Little Platte rivers, was, from its inception, located in a storm center of American history. The area known as Kansas adapted violently to civilization's cultivating hoe. Indians, the original landowners, through unhonored treaties and brute force, were systematically pushed off their land; Brigham Young and his "fanatical" brethren tried unsuccessfully to sink roots there; ferocious fighting between slave owners and abolitionists gave currency to the term "Bleeding Kansas"; during the Civil War Kansas was the scene of the savage battle known as "Gettysburg of the West." After the Union's victory and the eventual pacification of the area, the post became the first Army Tactical School in a pilot program that proved to be extremely successful; Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Patton were three of many Leavenworth graduates who distinguished themselves in World War II. The Fort and Kansas have experienced numerous transitions, but the importance of Leavenworth in America's defense is still vital today. Carefully researched and vividly written, George Walton's Sentinel of the Plains follows in fascinating detail the forced march American civilization made "from Sea to shining Sea" -- Book jacket.
Author : Jeff Barnes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811751346
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Forts of the Northern Plains written by Jeff Barnes and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 51 fort sites in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Montana More than 100 photographs and drawings illustrate life at the forts Directions, visitor information, and nearby points of interest for every site As the first official symbols of U. S. government presence on the Western frontier, the forts of the Northern Plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict. The integral role 51 of those forts played during decades of warfare with the Plains Indians tribes--and the posts' fates after those wars ended--is recounted in this informative guidebook. Included are histories, up-to-date descriptions of what remains today, and directions and visitor information for each post.
Author : Ron Field
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781841767758
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (677 download)
Download or read book Forts of the American Frontier 1820–91 written by Ron Field and published by Osprey Publishing. This book was released on 2005-02-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major period of westward expansion took place in the United States during the first half of the 19th century. Fur trading, the coast-to-coast railroad, the California gold rush and the removal of Native American tribes both facilitated and encouraged America's "manifest destiny" to become a transcontinental nation. The task of protecting the settlers from the tribes that inhabited the Great Plains fell to the US Army, and to do this an extensive network of permanent forts was created via construction and acquisition. This title examines why the forts were built, as well as their design, defensive features and the role they played in the settlement of the American West. The daily lives of the garrison soldiers and fort inhabitants are also covered, together with the fighting witnessed at key sites.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Armstrong Custer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book My Life on the Plains written by George Armstrong Custer and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher M. Rein
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166681
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Second Colorado Cavalry written by Christopher M. Rein and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the Second Colorado Volunteer Regiment played a vital and often decisive role in the fight for the Union on the Great Plains—and in the westward expansion of the American empire. Christopher M. Rein’s The Second Colorado Cavalry is the first in-depth history of this regiment operating at the nexus of the Civil War and the settlement of the American West. Composed largely of footloose ’59ers who raced west to participate in the gold rush in Colorado, the troopers of the Second Colorado repelled Confederate invasions in New Mexico and Indian Territory before wading into the Burned District along the Kansas border, the bloodiest region of the guerilla war in Missouri. In 1865, the regiment moved back out onto the plains, applying what it had learned to peacekeeping operations along the Santa Fe Trail, thus definitively linking the Civil War and the military conquest of the American West in a single act of continental expansion. Emphasizing the cavalry units, whose mobility proved critical in suppressing both Confederate bushwhackers and Indian raiders, Rein tells the neglected tale of the “fire brigade” of the Trans-Mississippi Theater—a group of men, and a few women, who enabled the most significant environmental shift in the Great Plains’ history: the displacement of Native Americans by Euro-American settlers, the swapping of bison herds for fenced cattle ranges, and the substitution of iron horses for those of flesh and bone. The Second Colorado Cavalry offers us a much-needed history of the “guerilla hunters” who helped suppress violence and keep the peace in contested border regions; it adds nuance and complexity to our understanding of the unlikely “agents of empire” who successfully transformed the Central Plains.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2017: Justification of the budget estimates: Related agencies written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. E. Kaufmann
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0306816342
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Fortress America written by J. E. Kaufmann and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2007-09-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the earliest colonial settlements to Cold War bunkers, the North American continent has been home to thousands of forts and fortress structures. Fortress America surveys the broad sweep of fortifications throughout North America-from seacoast forts of the late eighteenth century to wooden inland forts built to defend against Native American, English, French, or Spanish attack; from Civil War-era coastal and inland waterways forts to the Great Plains' forts of the Old West; from World War II subterranean bunkers to Cold War concrete missile silos. The text of Fortress America is complemented with never-before-published photographs, and extraordinary drawings, cut-aways, and diagrams illustrating the design and structure of American forts.
