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Book Synopsis Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide ... by : George A. Crofutt
Download or read book Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide ... written by George A. Crofutt and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Crossing written by Derek Hayes and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Book Synopsis Sea of Glory by : Nathaniel Philbrick
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Book Synopsis The Overland Stage to California by : Frank Albert Root
Download or read book The Overland Stage to California written by Frank Albert Root and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most valuable narratives of the overland stage. As the agent of the postal department, Root oversaw the transportation of the mail over the great stage line ... The narrative is packed with anecdotes and details and is abundantly illustrated"--Bookdealer's description.
Book Synopsis History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis & Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean by : Meriwether Lewis
Download or read book History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis & Clarke to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide by : George A. Crofutt
Download or read book Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide written by George A. Crofutt and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean by : Meriwether Lewis
Download or read book History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Astoria written by Peter Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Book Synopsis History of the Expedition by : Meriwether Lewis
Download or read book History of the Expedition written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-24 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the Expedition - Under the command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the sources of Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains, and down the river Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1868. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
Book Synopsis Riding the Transcontinental Rails by : Bruce C. Cooper
Download or read book Riding the Transcontinental Rails written by Bruce C. Cooper and published by Polyglot PressInc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Expedition of Lewis and Clark by : Meriwether Lewis
Download or read book The Expedition of Lewis and Clark written by Meriwether Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ocean to Ocean by : George Monro Grant
Download or read book Ocean to Ocean written by George Monro Grant and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Route for the Overland Stage by : Jesse G. Petersen
Download or read book Route for the Overland Stage written by Jesse G. Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1859 exploration of the Great Basin by army topographical engineer James Simpson opened up one of the West's most important transportation and communication corridors, a vital link between the Pacific Coast and the rest of the nation. It became the route of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail and Stage, the line of the Pacific telegraph, a major wagon road for freighters and emigrants, and, later, the first transcontinental auto road, the Lincoln Highway, now Highway 50. No one has accurately tracked or mapped Simpson's original route, until now. Jesse Petersen shows in words, maps, and photos exactly where the explorer went. Sharing his detective-like reasoning as he walked or drove the entire trail west and Simpson's variant route returning east, Petersen takes readers on a mountain and desert trek through some of America's most remote and striking landscapes.
Book Synopsis First Across the Continent by : Barry M. Gough
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Book Synopsis The Prairie Traveler by : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by New York, Harper. This book was released on 1859 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to survive on the trails to California and Oregon: food, wagon train management, pack animals, bivouacs, Indian fighting, hunting, etc.
Book Synopsis Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers by : Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson
Download or read book Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers written by Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEDICINE BOW, WYOMING home of Owen Wister s Virginian. When you call me that, smile. Learn the real history of Medicine Bow and its pioneers. Robbers Roost Ranch home of one of the world s great fossil beds. Discovered in the 1880s and 1890s, archeologists from all over the country came to dig for fossils at Como Bluff near Medicine Bow, Wyo. Fort Halleck, Overland Trail; First Home of John Sublet Jr. Was Wyoming s John Sublet (1840-1928) denied his rightful inheritance to his famous relative s estate, because of his African-American ancestry? Did the hearings on the famous Sublet Will end because a mixed-race man in the wilds of Wyoming was about to prove his relationship to this branch of the Sublet family? Elk Mountain, Wyoming---Home of the renowned GARDEN SPOT PAVILLION with the famous swing and sway dance floor. If you can t dance, hop on and ride! Learn the secret to the famous floor! Dancers from everywhere danced to the music of Harry James, Lawrence Welk, Tommy Dorsey, T. Texas Tyler, and many more famous bands. SADIE S GROVE---Talk of the old days always comes around to Sadie and Sadie s Grove. Learn who she was and why she has become a legend. One of the valley s ghost towns, Carbon, Wyoming was the first coal mine opened in Wyoming by the Union Pacific Railroad. Read about these courageous pioneers and their struggle to make a better life in the prairies and along the river in the Medicine Bow Valley. THE OVERLAND TRAIL; Historians say over 20,000 people a year crossed the Medicine Bow Valley on the Overland Trail. This book has over 1,000 names of people who crossed through or lived in the Medicine Bow Valley. From Hanna, Wyoming come exciting biographies, genealogies, myths, legends, and tales from when Hanna was an infant.
Download or read book Overlander written by Rupert Guinness and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world. Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness made his name reporting on for decades, competitors would ride completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country – a gruelling distance of over 5,000 kilometres that would not only test riders’ physical endurance but their psychological resilience as well. Dubbed ‘The Hunger Games on Wheels’, there would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful – and most inhospitable – places on earth. Rupert’s mission was to test his own grit, physical and emotional, as he followed the trail of the pioneering men and women whose historic rides over the last two centuries unveiled a largely unknown interior. But when a terrible tragedy stopped competitors in their tracks, Rupert was forced to make one of the toughest decisions he had ever faced – and ultimately, what he discovered was the extraordinary power of the human spirit.