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Author : Paul D. Larsen
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ISBN 13 : 9781591967460
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs written by Paul D. Larsen and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen M. Larsen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (815 download)
Download or read book Remembering Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs written by Karen M. Larsen and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation by Karen and Paul Larsen, of excerpts from diaries and reminiscences of Latter-day Saints who resided in the Winter Quarters/Council Bluffs area between about 1846 and 1852. Includes writings of Job Taylor Smith, Eliza Maria Patridge Lyman, Helen Mar Kimball Whitney, Aroet Lucius Hale, Anna Clark Hale, Jane Snyder Richards, Joseph Fielding, Bathsheba Wilson Bigler Smith, Lucy Meserve Smith, Richard Ballantyne, Sarah Studevant Leavitt, Alfred Boaz Lambson, Allen Joseph Stout, Luke William Gallup, and Gibson Condie. Includes table of contents, preface, footnotes, and bibiliography.
Author : Gail Geo. Holmes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235740
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Chiefs of Council Bluffs written by Gail Geo. Holmes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look into the lives of five indigenous American tribal chiefs who lead their people as European settlers traveled into the region. Two centuries ago, the fierce winds of change were sweeping through the Middle Missouri Valley. French, Spanish and then American traders and settlers had begun pouring in. In the midst of this time of tumult and transition, five chiefs rose up to lead their peoples: Omaha Chief Big Elk, the Pottawatamie/Ottawa/Chippewa Tribe’s Captain Billy Caldwell, Ioway Chief Wangewaha (called Hard Heart), Pawnee Brave Petalesharo and Ponca Chief Standing Bear. Historian Gail Holmes tells the story of their leadership as the land was redefined beneath them.
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 : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806160233
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 3 written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The gold fields were only one destination, as emigrants pushed across the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Oregon Territory in unprecedented numbers, following the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails to the verdant Willamette Valley or Mormon settlements in the Salt Lake Valley. “Seeing the Elephant” they often called the journey, referring to the wondrous sights and endless adventures met along the way. The firsthand accounts of those who made the trip between 1850 and 1855 that are collected in this third volume in a four-part series speak of wonders and adventures, but also of disaster and deprivation. Traversing the ever-changing landscape, these pioneers braved flooded rivers, endured cholera and hunger, and had encounters with Indians that were often friendly and sometimes troubled. Rich in detail and diverse in the experiences they relate, these letters, diary excerpts, recollections, and reports capture the voices of women and men of all ages and circumstances, hailing from states far and wide, and heading west in hope and desperation. Their words allow us to see the grit and glory of the American West as it once appeared to those who witnessed its transformation. Michael L. Tate begins the volume with an introduction to this middle phase of the trails’ history. A headnote and annotations for each document sketch the author’s background and reasons for undertaking the trip and correct and clarify information in the original manuscript. The extensive bibliography identifies sources and suggests further reading.
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 : Frank Alfred Golder
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The March of the Mormon Batallion from Council Bluffs to California written by Frank Alfred Golder and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
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Author : Dorothy Allred Solomon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393049466
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk written by Dorothy Allred Solomon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader, polygamist, and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred.
Author : Kerin Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080616025X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 3 written by Kerin Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after the discovery of gold in California, thousands of fortune seekers made their way west, joining the greatest mass migration in American history. The gold fields were only one destination, as emigrants pushed across the Great Plains, Great Basin, and Oregon Territory in unprecedented numbers, following the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails to the verdant Willamette Valley or Mormon settlements in the Salt Lake Valley. “Seeing the Elephant” they often called the journey, referring to the wondrous sights and endless adventures met along the way. The firsthand accounts of those who made the trip between 1850 and 1855 that are collected in this third volume in a four-part series speak of wonders and adventures, but also of disaster and deprivation. Traversing the ever-changing landscape, these pioneers braved flooded rivers, endured cholera and hunger, and had encounters with Indians that were often friendly and sometimes troubled. Rich in detail and diverse in the experiences they relate, these letters, diary excerpts, recollections, and reports capture the voices of women and men of all ages and circumstances, hailing from states far and wide, and heading west in hope and desperation. Their words allow us to see the grit and glory of the American West as it once appeared to those who witnessed its transformation. Michael L. Tate begins the volume with an introduction to this middle phase of the trails’ history. A headnote and annotations for each document sketch the author’s background and reasons for undertaking the trip and correct and clarify information in the original manuscript. The extensive bibliography identifies sources and suggests further reading.
Author : Ann Eliza Young
Publisher : Tales End Press
ISBN 13 : 1623580110
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Wife No. 19 written by Ann Eliza Young and published by Tales End Press. This book was released on 2012-08-05 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind David Ebershoff's bestseller "The 19th Wife"! At the age of 24, Ann Eliza Webb was forced into marriage with Brigham Young, her spiritual leader and the 67-year-old president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. By her own count, she was his 19th wife. Less than five years later, she filed for divorce on the grounds of neglect, cruel treatment, and desertion - and shocked the tight-knit Mormon community by winning the case. Excommunicated from the church, she traveled the country, speaking out against polygamy and Mormonism, and becoming an early advocate for women's rights in 19th century America. In this autobiography, dedicated to the Mormon Wives of Utah, she published a devastating expose of the privation, cruelty and violence that were a constant part of their lives. Her story was an immediate bestseller, and remains a gripping read to this day. This ebook edition includes an active table of contents, reflowable text, and 150 illustrations of the people, places and events in Ann Eliza Young's life.
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Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dorothy Allred Solomon
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393541185
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Daughter of the Saints: Growing Up in Polygamy written by Dorothy Allred Solomon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-10-17 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Probably the best book ever written about polygamy. Neither an apologia nor an exposé."—Salt Lake City Tribune "I am the daughter of my father's fourth plural wife, twenty-eighth of forty-eight children—a middle kid, you might say." So begins this astonishing and poignant memoir of life in the family of Utah fundamentalist leader and naturopathic physician Rulon C. Allred. Since polygamy was abolished by manifesto in 1890, this is a story of secrecy and lies, of poverty and imprisonment and government raids. When raids threatened, the families were forced to scatter from their pastoral compound in Salt Lake City to the deserts of Mexico or the wilds of Montana. To follow the Lord's plan as dictated by the Principle, the human cost was huge. Eventually murder in its cruelest form entered when members of a rival fundamentalist group assassinated the author's father. Dorothy Solomon, monogamous herself, broke from the fundamentalist group because she yearned for equality and could not reconcile the laws of God (as practiced by polygamists) with the vastly different laws of the state. This poignant account chronicles her brave quest for personal identity. Originally published in hardcover under the title Predators, Prey, and Other Kinfolk.
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Total Pages : 1172 pages
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Download or read book The Improvement Era written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Latter-Day Saints Millennial Star. Volume X. written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Warner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738550756
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Council Bluffs written by Richard Warner and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1830s, a path appeared where Indian Creek flowed out of the loess hills at Caldwell's Potawatomi village and led west across the Eight-Mile Prairie. A decade later, that path became Broadway through Mormon Kanesville where California-bound 49ers found anything for sale. Kanesville became Council Bluffs after 1852 as Broadway spread from Mud Hollow and Old Town past the Fourth Street Angle across a "sea of prairie grass and sun-flowers" to the ferries on the Big Muddy, the Missouri River. More changes came with the Northwestern, Union Pacific, and Illinois Central Railroads as Broadway evolved into the route of four U.S. highways. People went to work at World Radio, Woodward's, and Omaha Standard, and notorious mobster Meyer Lansky ran greyhounds where stock cars later raced at Playland Park while teenagers cruised for hamburgers and entertainment.
Author : Harold Waldstein Foght
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Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Trail of the Loup written by Harold Waldstein Foght and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
