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Author : George Ruhlen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Kearny's Route from the Rio Grande to the Gila River written by George Ruhlen and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norma Ricketts
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 145718074X
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The Mormon Battalion written by Norma Ricketts and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1997-01-15 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon history. This first complete history of the wide-ranging army unit restores it to its central place in Western history, and provides descendants a complete roster of the Battalion's members.
Author : Norma Ricketts
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 0874213266
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Mormon Battalion written by Norma Ricketts and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few events in the history of the American Far West from 1846 to 1849 did not involve the Mormon Battalion. The Battalion participated in the United States conquest of California and in the discovery of gold, opened four major wagon trails, and carried the news of gold east to an eager American public. Yet, the battalion is little known beyond Mormon history. This first complete history of the wide-ranging army unit restores it to its central place in Western history, and provides descendants a complete roster of the Battalion's members.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Arizona Interconnection Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Remley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618325X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Kit Carson written by David Remley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History has portrayed Christopher "Kit" Carson in black and white. Best known as a nineteenth-century frontier hero, he has been represented more recently as an Indian killer responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Navajos. Biographer David Remley counters these polarized views, finding Carson to be less than a mythical hero, but more than a simpleminded rascal with a rifle. Kit Carson: The Life of an American Border Man strikes a balance between prevailing notions about this quintessential western figure. Whereas the dime novelists exploited Carson's popular reputation, Remley reveals that the real man was dependable, ethical, and—for his day—relatively open-minded. Sifting through the extensive scholarship about Kit, the author illuminates the key dimensions of Carson's life, including his often neglected Scots-Irish heritage. His people's dire poverty and restlessness, their clannish rural life and sternly Protestant character, committed Carson, like his Scots-Irish ancestors, to loyalty and duty and to following his leader into battle without question. Remley also places Carson in the context of his times by exploring his controversial relations with American Indians. Although despised for the merciless warfare he led on General James H. Carleton's behalf against the Navajos, Carson lived amicably among many Indian people, including the Utes, whom he served as U.S. government agent. Happily married to Waa-Nibe, an Arapaho woman, until her death, he formed a lasting friendship with their daughter, Adaline. Remley sees Carson as a complicated man struggling to master life on America's borders, those highly unstable areas where people of different races, cultures, and languages met, mixed, and fought, sometimes against each other, sometimes together, for the possession of home, hunting rights, and honor.
Author : Karl Jack Bauer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261075
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Mexican War, 1846-1848 written by Karl Jack Bauer and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Much has been written about the Mexican war, but this . . . is the best military history of that conflict. . . . Leading personalities, civilian and military, Mexican and American, are given incisive and fair evaluations. The coming of war is seen as unavoidable, given American expansion and Mexican resistance to loss of territory, compounded by the fact that neither side understood the other. The events that led to war are described with reference to military strengths and weaknesses, and every military campaign and engagement is explained in clear detail and illustrated with good maps. . . . Problems of large numbers of untrained volunteers, discipline and desertion, logistics, diseases and sanitation, relations with Mexican civilians in occupied territory, and Mexican guerrilla operations are all explained, as are the negotiations which led to war's end and the Mexican cession. . . . This is an outstanding contribution to military history and a model of writing which will be admired and emulated."-Journal of American History. K. Jack Bauer was also the author of Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest (1985) and Other Works. Robert W. Johannsen, who introduces this Bison Books edition of The Mexican War, is a professor of history at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the author of To the Halls of Montezumas: The Mexican War in the American Imagination (1985).
Author : Mary Jane Berman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Cultural Resources Overview of Socorro, New Mexico written by Mary Jane Berman and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Hadley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book El Rio Bonito written by Diana Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lansing Bartlett Bloom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book New Mexico Historical Review written by Lansing Bartlett Bloom and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Odie B. Faulk
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Destiny Road written by Odie B. Faulk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Gila Trail, also known as the Southern Emigrant Trail, Butterfield Stage Trail, and Kearny trial, which was important southern route to California during the Gold Rush era.
Author : William Turrentine Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Wagon roads west written by William Turrentine Jackson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. H. Roberts
Publisher : Latter-day Strengths
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mormon Battalion written by B. H. Roberts and published by Latter-day Strengths. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 16, 1846 some 543 latter-day saints volunteered to enlist to aid the U.S. campaign against Mexico. This group of saints was known as the Mormon Battalion, and earned a place in the history of the West. During its 2,000 mile march its men cleared a wagon road from Santa Fe to San Diego and helped secure California as United States territory. Members of the Battalion helped preserve a feeble peace in southern California before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended hostilities. They established a wagon road between the Gila and the Rio Grande, which influenced the U.S. government to make the Gadsden Purchase. They opened wagon roads that linked California with Salt Lake City via Carson and Cajon passes. A former member of the Battalion was arguably given credit for the discovery of gold in California, while others eventually participated in the gold rush and helped stimulate economic development in the Great Basin. These former LDS soldiers ultimately received favorable recognition both from their military commanders and from other non-Mormons for their industriousness and loyalty. And through it all, never fought a battle.
Author : Western Writers of America
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870043048
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Trails West written by Western Writers of America and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press Nineteen veteran authors, members of the Western Writers of America all, have been collected in this volume of essays detailing the travails and triumphs of the whites who emigrated rest along the Pioneer Trails.
Author : Bronwyn Mills
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438100140
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book U. S. -Mexican War, Updated Edition written by Bronwyn Mills and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the previous edition:"Well selected black-and-white maps and reproductions of old photographs add to the readers' understandings." - Journal of ReadingControversial and unpopular, the U.S.-Mexican War divided t
Author : Robert J. Willoughby
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272916
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Brothers Robidoux and the Opening of the American West written by Robert J. Willoughby and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in a unique biographical format, Robert Willoughby interweaves the stories of six brothers who shaped the American trans-Mississippi West during the first five decades of the nineteenth century. After migrating from French Canada to St. Louis, the brothers Robidoux—Joseph, Francois, Antoine, Louis, Michel, and Isadore—and their father, Joseph, became significant members in the business, fur trading, and land speculation communities, frequently interacting with upper-class members of the French society. Upon coming of age, the brothers followed their father into the fur business and American Indian trade. The oldest of the six, Joseph, led the group on an expedition up the Missouri River as Lewis and Clark had once done, designating a path of trade sites along their journey until they reached their destination at present-day Omaha, Nebraska. Eventually the younger brothers set out on their own westward expedition in the mid 1820s, reaching both Colorado and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Joseph eventually became a town founder in northwest Missouri near Blacksnake Creek. Antoine and Louis traveled as far as California, finally settling in Santa Fe where they became prominent citizens. As a trapper and trader, Michel endured many hardships and close calls during his journey across the West. Francois and Isadore made their home in New Mexico, maintaining a close relationship with Joseph in Missouri. Though frequently under contract by others, the brothers did their best work when allowed to freelance and make their own rules. The brothers would ultimately pass on their prosperous legacy of ranging, exploring, trading, and town-building to a new generation of settlers. As the nature of the fur trade changed, so did the brothers’ business model. They began focusing on outfitting western migrants, town folk, and farmers. Their practices made each of them wealthy; however, they all died poor. To understand the opening of the American West, one must first know about men like the brothers Robidoux. Their lives are the framework for stories about the American frontier. By using primary sources located at the Missouri Historical Society, the Mexican Archives of New Mexico, and the Huntington Library, as well as contemporary accounts written by those who knew them, Willoughby has now told the Robidouxs’ story.
Author : L. David Norris
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540160
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book William H. Emory written by L. David Norris and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soldier and explorer William H. Emory traveled the length and breadth of the United States and participated in some of the most significant events of the nineteenth century. This first complete biography of Emory offers new insights into an often-overlooked military figure and provides an important view of an expanding America. Born in Maryland in 1811, Emory was a West Point graduate who resigned his commission to become a civil engineer and join the newly formed Corps of Topographical Engineers. After working along the Canadian boundary, he was selected to accompany Stephen Watts Kearny and the Army of the West in their trek to California in 1846, and his map from that expedition helped guide Forty-Niners bound for the goldfields. Emory worked for nine years on the new border between the United States and Mexico after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase and was responsible for the survey and marking of the boundary. When the Civil War broke out, Emory refused a commission in the Confederate Army, instead commanding a regiment defending Washington, D.C. Later he saw action at Manassas, in the Red River campaign, and in the Shenandoah Valley, where he served under Phil Sheridan. This biography draws on Emory’s personal papers to reveal other significant episodes of his life. While commanding a cavalry unit in Indian Territory, he was the only officer to bring an entire command out of insurrectionary territory. In hostile action of a different kind, he was a major witness in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson and offered testimony that helped save the president. William H. Emory: Soldier-Scientist is an important resource for scholars of western expansion and the Civil War. More than that, it is a rousing story of an unsung but distinguished hero of his time.
Author : Nancy Coggeshall
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826348254
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Gila Country Legend written by Nancy Coggeshall and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2014-10-29 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling biography of a unique western rancher constantly adjusting to the inroads of modernity into his traditional way of life.
