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Author : Riley Root
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789362768018
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon written by Riley Root and published by . This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joel Palmer
Publisher : Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains written by Joel Palmer and published by Fairfield, Wash. : Ye Galleon Press. This book was released on 1847 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dary
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307429113
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by David Dary and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Author : Joel Palmer
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 written by Joel Palmer and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joel Palmer's seminal work, 'Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846,' offers a captivating and meticulous narrative of his expedition across a rugged and uncharted American frontier. Palmer's journal provides an unparalleled account of the landscape's grandeur and the challenges faced by early settlers. Stylistically, the journal utilizes a straightforward and descriptive prose, immersing the reader in the vernacular of the mid-19th century. This historical travelogue not only serves as a vital document of pioneering life but also fits within the tradition of American transcendentalist literature, echoing the philosophies of contemporary writers like Emerson and Thoreau with its reflection on nature and the human spirit. Joel Palmer, an entrepreneur and adventurer, was driven by the very ethos that propelled the westward expansion of the United States. Through his eyes, we gain insights into the aspirations and trials of immigrants seeking prosperity and freedom. His journal, rich with details, provides invaluable information on the Oregon Trail and the settlement of the Pacific Northwest. His personal initiative to chart these territories reflects the broader narrative of American exploration and Manifest Destiny. As a definitive resource for historians and literary enthusiasts alike, 'Palmer's Journal of Travels' is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the spirit of the American West. The book illuminates the complexities of frontier life and embodies the resilient and explorative nature of the era's people. Recommended for its first-hand perspective, it is a historical treasure that brings the reader face-to-face with America's past and the boundless determination that shaped its present.
Author : William J. Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Journal of an Overland Journey to Oregon Made in the Year 1849 written by William J. Watson and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Riley Root
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387082436
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Journal of Travels From St. Josephs to Oregon; With Observations of That Country written by Riley Root and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147342
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Indians and Emigrants written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-08-04 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to focus on relations between Indians and emigrants on the overland trails, Michael L. Tate shows that such encounters were far more often characterized by cooperation than by conflict. Having combed hundreds of unpublished sources and Indian oral traditions, Tate finds Indians and Anglo-Americans continuously trading goods and news with each other, and Indians providing various forms of assistance to overlanders. Tate admits that both sides normally followed their own best interests and ethical standards, which sometimes created distrust. But many acts of kindness by emigrants and by Indians can be attributed to simple human compassion. Not until the mid-1850s did Plains tribes begin to see their independence and cultural traditions threatened by the flood of white travelers. As buffalo herds dwindled and more Indians died from diseases brought by emigrants, violent clashes between wagon trains and Indians became more frequent, and the first Anglo-Indian wars erupted on the plains. Yet, even in the 1860s, Tate finds, friendly encounters were still the rule. Despite thousands of mutually beneficial exchanges between whites and Indians between 1840 and 1870, the image of Plains Indians as the overland pioneers’ worst enemies prevailed in American popular culture. In explaining the persistence of that stereotype, Tate seeks to dispel one of the West’s oldest cultural misunderstandings.
Author : Robert Rogers Hubach
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328095
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Early Midwestern Travel Narratives written by Robert Rogers Hubach and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1961, Early Midwestern Travel Narratives records and describes first-person records of journeys in the frontier and early settlement periods which survive in both manuscript and print. Geographically, it deals with the states once part of the Old Northwest Territory-Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota-and with Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska. Robert Hubach arranged the narratives in chronological order and makes the distinction among diaries (private records, with contemporaneously dated entries), journals (non-private records with contemporaneously dated entries), and "accounts," which are of more literary, descriptive nature. Early Midwestern Travel Narratives remains to this day a unique comprehensive work that fills a long existing need for a bibliography, summary, and interpretation of these early Midwestern travel narratives.
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 : Stephen Dow Beckham
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
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Author : Paul Shepard
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 082033345X
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Where We Belong written by Paul Shepard and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered here in book form for the first time, the fourteen essays in Where We Belong exemplify Paul Shepard's interdisciplinary approach to human interaction with the natural world. Drawn from Shepard's entire career and presented chronologically, these pieces vary in setting from the Hudson River to the American prairie to New Zealand. Equally impressive is Shepard's spatial range, as he moves from subtle differences to grand designs, from the intimacy of an artist's brush stroke to a vista of the harsh Greek terrain. Alluding to a range of sources from Star Trek to Marshall McLuhan to the Bible, the writings discuss such topics as the geomorphology of New England landscape paintings, beautification and conservation projects, the Oregon Trail, and tourism. Whether Shepard is pondering why the Great Plains conjured up sea imagery in early observers, or how pioneers often resorted to architectural terms--temple, castle, bridge, tower--when naming the West's natural formations, he exposes, and thus invites us to unshoulder, the cultural and historical baggage we bring to the act of seeing. Throughout the book, Shepard seeks the antecedents of environmental perception and questions whether the paradigm we inherited should be superseded by one that leads us to a greater concern for the health of the planet. This volume is an important addition to Shepard's canon if only for the new view it offers of his intellectual development. More important, however, these selections demonstrate Shepard's grasp of a wide range of ideas related to the physical environment, including the various factors--historical, aesthetic, and psychological--that have shaped our attitudes toward the natural world and color the way we see it.
Author : Newberry Library
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226775791
Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (757 download)
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.
Download or read book Ancestry magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2005-07 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancestry magazine focuses on genealogy for today’s family historian, with tips for using Ancestry.com, advice from family history experts, and success stories from genealogists across the globe. Regular features include “Found!” by Megan Smolenyak, reader-submitted heritage recipes, Howard Wolinsky’s tech-driven “NextGen,” feature articles, a timeline, how-to tips for Family Tree Maker, and insider insight to new tools and records at Ancestry.com. Ancestry magazine is published 6 times yearly by Ancestry Inc., parent company of Ancestry.com.
Author : Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803243251
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Spreading the Word written by Richard Thomas Stillson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
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Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300153511
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Women and Men on the Overland Trail written by John Mack Faragher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book American Diaries written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
