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Life Sketches of Jayhawker of '49

Author : Lorenzo Dow Stephens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Sketches of Jayhawker of '49 written by Lorenzo Dow Stephens and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorenzo Dow Stephens (b. 1827) was born in New Jersey and raised in Illinois, where he joined a party for Califoria in 1849. Life sketches of a jayhawker (1916) begins with Stephens's overland journey west, including Brigham Young's sermons at the Tabernacle in Salt Lake. He describes prospecting on the Merced River, farming in the Santa Clara Valley, and cattle drives from San Bernardino and San Diego. His memoirs continue through the 1860s, including his part in the 1862 British Columbia gold rush.

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 (Abridged, Annotated)

Author : L. Dow Stephens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519064585
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 (Abridged, Annotated) written by L. Dow Stephens and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the American Civil War, the term "jayhawker" referred to the intrepid pioneers with more gumption than good sense who streamed out to California to make their fortune in 1849.This is one man's true story of youthful exuberance, frightening near misses, near starvation, and, the thrill of the hunt for gold. Despite getting out some fairly good hauls of several pounds of gold a day, like most jayhawkers, Dow eventually had no fortune to show for it. But Dow Stephens does have one whale of a story to tell and he was successful in some of his business dealings. In his simple prose (misspellings retained), he conveys the hardships, excitement, and once-in-a-lifetime adventure that was his journey across the continent, a voyage to the Sandwich Islands, and later a trip up to Alaska to prospect.He settled in San Jose but never seemed to be done with adventure. He ranched, farmed, ran businesses, went to Alaska, and became well-known for his writing. All in all, you'll find the adventurous life of Dow Stephens to be a rollicking good true story.

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49

Author : L Dow (Lorenzo Dow) 1827- Stephens
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343083533
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 written by L Dow (Lorenzo Dow) 1827- Stephens and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-14 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49

Author : L. Dow Stephens
Publisher : Sagwan Press
ISBN 13 : 9781376624533
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (245 download)

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Download or read book Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 written by L. Dow Stephens and published by Sagwan Press. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49, by L. Dow Stephens; Actually Told by Himself in His Own Way

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Life Sketches of a Jayhawker of '49 - Primary Source Edition

Author : L. Dow (Lorenzo Dow) Stephens
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781294794776
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Rough Diamond

Author : A. K. ]]>
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253053951
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Rough Diamond written by A. K. ]]> and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous early Republic period of American history through the life of Alexander Hamilton's son. Born in New York in 1797, the fifth son of Alexander Hamilton, he was only seven when his father was infamously killed in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. After resigning from West Point, Hamilton moved to frontier Illinois in 1817. The famous name of Hamilton that may have acquired him rank and prestige at one time was meaningless in a Midwestern frontier society driven by the Jacksonians. Yet, despite being hurled into a clash of economic, political, and cultural cultures, Hamilton determined to live his life by his own rules. A veteran of the Winnebago and Black Hawk Wars, Hamilton was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives before moving to the Wisconsin territory, where he founded the mining town of Hamilton's Diggings (Wiota, WI). When gold was discovered in California in 1848, he traveled west, where he would die in Sacramento in 1850. In Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, author A. K. Fielding expands the story of the Hamilton family. Hamilton's life offers a firsthand account of the formation of the Midwestern states, the realities of life on the frontier, and mass migration caused by the California Gold Rush.

Catalogue

Author : Dawson's Book Shop
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue written by Dawson's Book Shop and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalog of Copyright Entries

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Total Pages : 754 pages
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Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Precious Dust

Author : Paula Mitchell Marks
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282476
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Precious Dust written by Paula Mitchell Marks and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material culled from letters, diaries, and other firsthand accounts reconstructs the experiences of people involved in the Gold Rush, showing not only what propelled them westward, but how they met the challenges of their journey

Indians and Emigrants

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147342
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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.

With Golden Visions Bright Before Them

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187778
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book With Golden Visions Bright Before Them written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers—men, women, and children—followed the “road across the plains” to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle—the second installment of Will Bagley’s sweeping Overland West series—captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America’s first great rush for riches and its enduring consequences. With narrative scope and detail unmatched by earlier histories, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them retells this classic American saga through the voices of the people whose eyewitness testimonies vividly evoke the most dramatic era of westward migration. Traditional histories of the overland roads paint the gold rush migration as a heroic epic of progress that opened new lands and a continental treasure house for the advancement of civilization. Yet, according to Bagley, the transformation of the American West during this period is more complex and contentious than legend pretends. The gold rush epoch witnessed untold suffering and sacrifice, and the trails and their trials were enough to make many people turn back. For America’s Native peoples, the effect of the massive migration was no less than ruinous. The impact that tens of thousands of intruders had on Native peoples and their homelands is at the center of this story, not on its margins. Beautifully written and richly illustrated with photographs and maps, With Golden Visions Bright Before Them continues the saga that began with Bagley’s highly acclaimed, award-winning So Rugged and Mountainous: Blazing the Trails to Oregon and California, 1812–1848, hailed by critics as a classic of western history.

Floating Islands

Author : Richard J. Heggen
Publisher : Richard Heggen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1227 pages
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Six-Guns and Saddle Leather

Author : Ramon Frederick Adams
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486400358
Total Pages : 846 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Six-Guns and Saddle Leather written by Ramon Frederick Adams and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1998-02-25 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritative guide to everything in print about lawmen and the lawless—from Billy the Kid to the painted ladies of frontier cow towns. Nearly 2,500 entries, taken from newspapers, court records, and more.

The Great Platte River Road

Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803281530
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book The Great Platte River Road written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Platte River Road through Nebraska and Wyoming was the grand corridor of America's westward expansion. A number of famous trails converged in the broad valley of the Platte, forming a kind of primitive superhighway for the great covered wagon migration from 1841 to 1866. From jumping-off places along the Missouri River?notably the Omaha-Council Bluffs, St. Joseph, and Kansas City areas?the emigrant throngs came together at Fort Kearny, Nebraska. Although they continued on to South Pass, Wyoming, and beyond, this book focuses on the feeder mutes and the more than three hundred miles between Fort Kearny and Fort Laramie. The Great Platte River Road looks at border towns, trail routes, river crossings, stage stations, military posts, and such landmarks as Chimney Rock and Scott's Bluff. It goes far beyond geography and Indian encounters in revealing cultural aspects of the great migration: food, dress, equipment, organization, camping, traffic patterns, sex ratios, morals, manners, religion, crime, accidents, disease, death, and burial customs.

Golden Rules

Author : Mark Kanazawa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022625867X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Golden Rules written by Mark Kanazawa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-07-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water supply is an extremely contentious resource issue in California and the West. The framework currently used to resolve these issues, however, is based on the legal system that arose in response to the 1849 Gold Rush, and on which California and other Western states modeled their laws. In "Golden Rules: The Origins of California Water Law in the Gold Rush," Mark Kanazawa mines a vast cache of previously untapped historical sources both to tell the story of California s water laws and to shed light on how institutions and economies develop in relation to each other. The Gold Rush was a massive shock to the California economy and provides a unique opportunity in which to observe largely unfettered economic and cultural forces giving rise to rapid and dramatic changes in laws. Kanazawa draws on the latest scholarship in law and economics, property law, and new institutional economics, in combination with a great deal of evidence, to describe and interpret the water law doctrine that emerged from 1850s California. Seen through the lens of water development and property law, "Golden Rules" provides a coherent framework within which to understand much of what is observed in terms of institutional developments, and the activities governed by those, during the Gold Rush."