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Author : Cyrus Hurd
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Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (194 download)
Download or read book Letters of a Yankee Forty-niner written by Cyrus Hurd and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153180
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 2 written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state’s fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be history, but much of the story of what happened in the following year is told not in history books but in the letters, diaries, journals, and other written recollections of those whom the California gold rush drew west. In this second installment in the projected four-part collection The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, the hardy souls who made the arduous trip tell their stories in their own words. Seven individuals’ tales bring to life a long-ago year that enriched some, impoverished others, and forever changed the face of North America. Responding to often misleading promotional literature, adventurers made their way west via different routes. Following the Carson River through the Sierra Nevada, or taking the Lassen Route to the Sacramento Valley, they passed through the Mormon Zion of Great Salt Lake City and traded with and often displaced Native Americans long familiar with the trails. Their accounts detail these encounters, as well as the gritty realities of everyday life on the overland trails. They narrate events, describe the vast and diverse landscapes they pass through, and document a journey as strange and new to them as it is to many readers today. Through these travelers’ diaries and memoirs, readers can relive a critical moment in the remaking of the West—and appreciate what a difference one year can make in the life of a nation.
Author : Thomas Needham
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Total Pages : 11 pages
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Download or read book Letters of a Forty-niner written by Thomas Needham and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182040
Total Pages : 353 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 353 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 : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780815334576
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Racial Encounters in the Multi-cultural West written by Gordon Morris Bakken and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.
Author : Edith Eudora Kohl
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
ISBN 13 : 0873516788
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (735 download)
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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001405056
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book ANNUAL BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. VOL. XXVII. 1947. written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 870 pages
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Author : J. S. Holliday
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806181214
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The World Rushed In written by J. S. Holliday and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When The World Rushed In was first published in 1981, the Washington Post predicted, “It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush.” Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the San Francisco Examiner noted, “It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.” Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters sent to Swain from his wife and brother back home--the complete cycle of the gold rush is recreated: the overland migration of over thirty thousand men, the struggle to “strike it rich” in the mining camps of the Sierra Nevadas, and the return home through the jungles of the Isthmus of Panama. In a new preface, the author reappraises our continuing fascination with the “gold rush experience” as a defining epoch in western--indeed, American--history.
Author : Charles Edward Pancoast
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512805424
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book A Quaker Forty-Niner written by Charles Edward Pancoast and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic, first-hand account of the pioneering life in the West—steamboating on the Missouri and the gold rush to California.
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Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James J. Rawls
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Total Pages : 596 pages
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Author : Glenda Riley
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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Confronting Race written by Glenda Riley and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1984, when Glenda Riley's 'Women and Indians on the Frontier' was published, it was hailed for being the first study to take into account the roles that gender, race, and class played in Indian/white relations during the westward migration. In the twenty years since, the study of those aspects of western history has exploded. Confronting Race reflects the changes in western women's history and in the author's own approach. In spite of white women's shifting attitudes toward Indians, they retained colonialist outlooks toward all peoples. Women who migrated West carried deeply ingrained images and preconceptions of themselves and racially based ideas of the non-white groups they would meet. In their letters home and in their personal diaries and journals, they perpetuated racial stereotypes, institutions, and practices. The women also discovered their own resilience in the face of the harsh demands of the West. Although most retained their racist concepts, they came to realise that women need not be passive or fearful in their interactions with Indians. Riley's sources are the diaries and journals of trail women, settlers, army wives, and missionaries, and popular accounts in ne
Author : Mark A. Eifler
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826328229
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (282 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush Capitalists written by Mark A. Eifler and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interaction of capitalism and community in the founding of the gold rush city of Sacramento, and of the clashes between miners and city founders.
Author : Stanton Becker Von Grabill
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Total Pages : 66 pages
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Total Pages : 2 pages
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