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Author : James Pierson Beckwourth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth written by James Pierson Beckwourth and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann S. Manheimer
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9781575058924
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (589 download)
Download or read book James Beckwourth written by Ann S. Manheimer and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the African American pioneer.
Author : Elinor Wilson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806115559
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Jim Beckwourth written by Elinor Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1980-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays the life and adventures of the freedman, frontiersman, and fur trader who became a Crow warrior
Author : Susan R. Gregson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756510008
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book James Beckwourth written by Susan R. Gregson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the trapper who served as a messenger and guide to the U.S. Army and was accepted as an honorary member of several Native American tribes.
Author : Sean Dolan
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book James Beckwourth written by Sean Dolan and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.
Author : Troll Books
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606191159
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Jim Beckwourth written by Troll Books and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of the nineteenth-century hunter, trapper, and trader.
Author : Janet Lecompte
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806117232
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Pueblo, Hardscrabble, Greenhorn written by Janet Lecompte and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1980-11-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pueblo, Hardscrabble, and Greenhorn were among the very first white settlements in Colorado. In their time they were the most westerly settlements in American territory, and they attracted a lively and varied population of mavericks from more civilized parts of the world-from what became New Mexico to the south and from as far east as England. The inhabitants of these little walled towns thrived on the rigor and freedom of frontier life. Many were ex-trappers full already of frontier expertise. Others were enthusiastic neophytes happy to escape problems back home. They sought Mexican wives in Taos or Santa Fe or allied themselves with the native Indian tribes, or both. The fur trade and the illegal liquor trade with the Indians were at first the mainstays of their economy. As time went on they extended their activities to farming illegally on the land owned by the Indians and trading their crops and other trade articles. They enjoyed themselves hunting, gambling, trading, and with their women, freely mixing Spanish, Indian, and Anglo-American cultures in a community without laws or bigotry. This idyll was brought to a close by the Mexican War and the lure of the California Gold Rush of 1849. The expectation of a railroad on the Arkansas brought many of the settlers back, only to be scared away again by the massacre of Pueblo by the Utes in 1854 of which Mrs. Lecompte has reconstructed a very complete record. When the gold seekers rushed to Pikes Peak in 1858 and stayed to establish farms and towns, some of the pioneers of the early days returned with them, and shared their skills and knowledge to make possible the permanent settlements that resulted. Mrs. Lecompte has documented the history of the region from diaries, letters, and the reports of such distinguished passers-by as J. C. Fremont and Francis Parkman. The result is a complete and compelling account of a neglected part of American frontier life. It is illustrated with more than fifty photographs and contemporary drawings.
Author : LeRoy R. Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272088
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Broken Hand written by LeRoy R. Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known by the Indians as "Broken Hand," Thomas Fitzpatrick was a trapper and a trailblazer who became the head of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. With Jedediah Smith he led the trapper band that discovered South Pass; he then shepherded the first two emigrant wagon trains to Oregon, was official guide to Fremont on his longest expedition, and guided Colonel Phil Kearny and his Dragoons along the westward trails to impress the Indians with howitzers and swords. Fitzpatrick negotiated the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 at the largest council of Plains Indians ever assembled. Among the most colorful of mountain men, Fitzpatrick was also party to many of the most important events in the opening of the West.
Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272187
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Trappers of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.
Author : Peter Massey
Publisher : Adler Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930193262
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Backcountry Adventures Southern California written by Peter Massey and published by Adler Publishing. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautifully crafted, high quality, sewn, 4 color guidebook. Part of a multiple book series of books on travel through America's beautiful and historic backcountry. Directions and maps to 2,970 miles of routes that travel through the beautiful mountain regions of Big Sur, across the arid Mojave Desert, and straight into the heart of the aptly named Death Valley. Trail history comes alive through the accounts of Spanish Missionaries; eager prospectors looking to cash in during California's gold rush; and legends of lost mines. Includes wildlife information and photographs to help readers identify the great variety of native birds, plants, and animal they are likely to see. Contains 153 trails, 640 pages, and 645 photos.
Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187123
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Sand Creek Massacre written by Stan Hoig and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes called "The Chivington Massacre" by those who would emphasize his responsibility for the attack and "The Battle of Sand Creek" by those who would imply that it was not a massacre, this event has become one of our nation’s most controversial Indian conflicts. The subject of army and Congressional investigations and inquiries, a matter of vigorous newspaper debates, the object of much oratory and writing biased in both directions, the Sand Creek Massacre very likely will never be completely and satisfactorily resolved. This account of the massacre investigates the historical events leading to the battle, tracing the growth of the Indian-white conflict in Colorado Territory. The author has shown the way in which the discontent stemming from the treaty of Fort Wise, the depredations committed by the Cheyennes and Arapahoes prior to the massacre, and the desire of some of the commanding officers for a bloody victory against the Indians laid the groundwork for the battle at Sand Creek.
Author : James Pierson Beckwourth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, Mountaineer, Scout, and Pioneer, and Chief of the Crow Nation of Indians written by James Pierson Beckwourth and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nat Love
Publisher : Black Classic Press
ISBN 13 : 9780933121171
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (211 download)
Download or read book The Life and Adventures of Nat Love written by Nat Love and published by Black Classic Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of black cowpunchers drove cattle up the Chisholm Trail after the Civil War, but only Nat Love wrote about his experiences. Born to slaves in Davidson County, Tennessee, the newly freed Love struck out for Kansas after the war. He was fifteen and already endowed with a reckless and romantic readiness. In wide-open Dodge City he joined up with an outfit from the Texas Panhandle to begin a career riding the range and fighting Indians, outlaws, and the elements. Years later he would say, "I had an unusually adventurous life". That was rare understatement. More characteristic was Love's claim: "I carry the marks of fourteen bullet wounds on different parts of my body, most any one of which would be sufficient to kill an ordinary man, but I am not even crippled". In 1876 a virtuoso rodeo performance in Deadwood, Dakota Territory, won him the moniker of Deadwood Dick. He became known as DD all over the West, entering into dime novels as a mysteriously dark and heroic presence. This vivid autobiography includes encounters with Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, a soon-after view of the Custer battlefield, and a successful courtship. Love left the range in 1890, the year of the official closing of the frontier. Then, as a Pullman train conductor he traveled his old trails, and those good times bring his story to a satisfying end.
Author : Leigh Brackett
Publisher : Center Point
ISBN 13 : 9781585471744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (717 download)
Download or read book Follow the Free Wind written by Leigh Brackett and published by Center Point. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A runaway slave lives free and wild in the high western American frontier.
Author : Aparajita Nanda
Publisher : Heyday Books
ISBN 13 : 9781597141468
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (414 download)
Download or read book Black California written by Aparajita Nanda and published by Heyday Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black California is the first comprehensive anthology celebrating black writing through almost two centuries of Californian history. In a patchwork quilt pieced from poetry, fiction, essays, drama, and memoirs, this anthology traces the trajectory of African American writers. Each piece gives a voice to the resonating rhythms that created the African American literary tradition in California. These voices speak of dreams and disasters, of heroic achievements and tragic failures, of freedom and betrayal, of racial discrimination and subsequent restoration--all setting the pulse of the black California experience.
Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Flash Point
ISBN 13 : 1429964960
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Which Way to the Wild West? written by Steve Sheinkin and published by Flash Point. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and Newbery Honor recipient Steve Sheinkin welcomes young readers to the thrilling, tragic, and downright wild historic adventure of America’s westward expansion in Which Way to the Wild West? Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn’t Tell You About America’s Westward Expansion, featuring illustrations by Tim Robinson. 1805: Explorer William Clark reaches the Pacific Ocean and pens the badly spelled line “Ocian in view! O! the joy!” (Hey, he was an explorer, not a spelling bee champion!) 1836: Mexican general Santa Anna surrounds the Alamo, trapping 180 Texans inside and prompting Texan William Travis to declare, “I shall never surrender or retreat.” 1861: Two railroad companies, one starting in the West and one in the East, start a race to lay the most track and create a transcontinental railroad. With a storyteller's voice and attention to the details that make history real and interesting, Steve Sheinkin delivers the wild facts about America's greatest adventure. From the Louisiana Purchase (remember: if you're negotiating a treaty for your country, play it cool.) to the gold rush (there were only three ways to get to California--all of them bad) to the life of the cowboy, the Indian wars, and the everyday happenings that defined living on the frontier. “An engaging...medley of anecdotes about the Wild West in nine lively chapters starting with the Louisiana Purchase and ending with the Lakota massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Casual vignettes of famous figures and ordinary people come to life.” —School Library Journal “Sheinkin builds his conversational narrative around stories of the men and women who peopled the west, with particular attention given to African Americans, Chinese workers, and everyday farmers and cowboys. There's plenty of humor here, but Sheinkin's strength is his ability to transition between events.”—The Horn Book Also by Steve Sheinkin: Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America
Author : Raymond Friday Locke
Publisher : Holloway House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780870675904
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (759 download)
Download or read book James Beckwourth written by Raymond Friday Locke and published by Holloway House Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the black mountain man who trapped for furs, was a guide for the cavalry and found a shortcut through the Sierras.
