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Author : James Brice
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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on the Western Plains written by James Brice and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Brice
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333926984
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on the Western Plains written by James Brice and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-12 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Ten Years Experience on the Western Plains: How the United States Mails Were Carried Before Railroads Reached the Santa Fe Trail Feet, and taking nine mules, harness and Bell pony, cutting open themail sacks, and scattering the contents on the prairie. Soldiers buried the bodies, gathered up all the mail they could find and gave it to the first mail party they met. Michael Smith was the first conductor I crossed the plains with, and I was booked for one of his helpers the trip he got killed. I was sick and Dr. Henry advised me not to undertake the trip. Next weekly mail after the murder of the Smith Brothers, Peter Kelly was conductor; I was one of his helpers. Reaching the big bend of the Arkansas River we met Lieutenant Long, a cavalry officer, and forty men, detailed by Major Sedgwick to escort the mail to the Cimarone Crossing of the Arkansas River, 110 miles further west. Before we reached the point where the escort would leave us and return to join their command, we found three dead bodies, two men and one woman, scalped and stripped of all their clothing; they seemed to be emigrants murdered where they were camped, wagon and yokes were there, but no cattle in sight. Feathers ying all over the prairie, bed ticks carried off. The body of one of the men and the woman were close together; a little white dog sitting barking between them; a half burned stick of wood lying on the man's breast showed it was on fire when placed there, as the esh was burned brown. The supposi tion at the time was the little dog kept the wolves away from the bodies he seemed to be watching over, as the third corpse lay fifty yards from the other, one of his limbs torn from the body by those animals. The Lieutenant took the sheets from his bed and had them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Author : Phyllis S. Morgan
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806152990
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book As Far as the Eye Could Reach written by Phyllis S. Morgan and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travelers and traders taking the Santa Fe Trail’s routes from Missouri to New Mexico wrote vivid eyewitness accounts of the diverse and abundant wildlife encountered as they crossed arid plains, high desert, and rugged mountains. Most astonishing to these observers were the incredible numbers of animals, many they had not seen before—buffalo, antelope (pronghorn), prairie dogs, roadrunners, mustangs, grizzlies, and others. They also wrote about the domesticated animals they brought with them, including oxen, mules, horses, and dogs. Their letters, diaries, and memoirs open a window onto an animal world on the plains seen by few people other than the Plains Indians who had lived there for thousands of years. Phyllis S. Morgan has gleaned accounts from numerous primary sources and assembled them into a delightfully informative narrative. She has also explored the lives of the various species, and in this book tells about their behaviors and characteristics, the social relations within and between species, their relationships with humans, and their contributions to the environment and humankind. With skillful prose and a keen eye for a priceless tale, Morgan reanimates the story of life on the Santa Fe Trail’s well-worn routes, and its sometimes violent intersection with human life. She provides a stirring view of the land and of the animals visible “as far as the eye could reach,” as more than one memoirist described. She also champions the many contributions animals made to the Trail’s success and to the opening of the American West.
Author : Francis Asbury Sampson
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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Missouri Historical Review written by Francis Asbury Sampson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Justin Gage
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806168374
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us written by Justin Gage and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication, threaded together by letter writing and off-reservation visiting. Faced with the consequences of U.S. colonialism—the constraints, population loss, and destitution—Native Americans, far from passively accepting their fate, mobilized to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mount resistance against onerous government policies. Justin Gage traces these efforts, drawing on extensive new evidence, including more than one hundred letters written by nineteenth-century Native Americans. His work shows how Lakotas, Cheyennes, Utes, Shoshones, Kiowas, and dozens of other western tribal nations shrewdly used the U.S. government’s repressive education system and mechanisms of American settler colonialism, notably the railroads and the Postal Service, to achieve their own ends. Thus Natives used literacy, a primary tool of assimilation for U.S. policymakers, to decolonize their lives much earlier than historians have noted. Whereas previous histories have assumed that the Ghost Dance itself was responsible for the creation of brand-new networks among western tribes, this book suggests that the intertribal networks formed in the 1870s and 1880s actually facilitated the rapid dissemination of the Ghost Dance in 1889 and 1890. Documenting the evolution and operation of intertribal networking, Gage demonstrates its effectiveness—and recognizes for the first time how, through Native activism, long-distance, intercultural communication persisted in the colonized American West.
Author : James Shannon Buchanan
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Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of Oklahoma written by James Shannon Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Publisher : Woodbridge, CT. : Research Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Western Americana, Frontier History of the Trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900 written by Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and published by Woodbridge, CT. : Research Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris F. Taylor
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Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book First Mail West written by Morris F. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971 and now in paperback for the first time, this book is a history of the stagecoach lines on the Santa Fe Trail from 1850 to 1879. Based on commercial records and ledgers, waybills and travelers' letters, and on Post Office Department records, it shows the fierce competition for passenger service and government mail contracts. Taylor tells the story of the small, independent stage lines on the Santa Fe Trail and describes the roads, landscape, the rolling stock, fares, stations and accommodations, and the country, people, and trade at the end of the line in New Mexico. Mark L. Gardner's foreword discusses Taylor's life, work, and the value of First Mail West to the history of the Southwest.
Author : Richard G. Hardorff
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137599
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Washita Memories written by Richard G. Hardorff and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this documentary history, Richard G. Hardorff presents a broad range of views of the Washita battle. Eyewitnesses to the destruction of the Southern Cheyenne village included soldiers, officers, tribal members, Indian and white scouts, and government officials. Many of these witnesses recorded their memories of the event. With Washita Memories, Hardorff has collected these surviving documents into a one-of-a-kind primary resource.".
Author : Jack DeVere Rittenhouse
Publisher : Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Santa Fe Trail written by Jack DeVere Rittenhouse and published by Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 730 pages
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Download or read book Presbyterian Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 898 pages
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Download or read book The Assembly Herald written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1224 pages
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Download or read book American Book Prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.
Author : Stan Hoig
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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The Kiowas & the Legend of Kicking Bird written by Stan Hoig and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Kicking Bird strove to save his tribe by working peacefully with Quaker Indian officials and the military. He challenged tribal mores by being the first to promote formal schooling of Kiowa children. In 1873, he managed to temporarily halt Kiowas raids against Texas settlements and attempted to negotiate peace with the whites.".
Author : Homer E. Socolofsky
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kansas History written by Homer E. Socolofsky and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1992-04-20 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume in the series State Bibliographies, this book provides comprehensive coverage of secondary materials on Kansas history and also includes useful references to major archival and manuscript collections. Although excellent specialized bibliographies have been published, this volume is the most complete compilation of historical and related materials for the state. Its broad and diverse scope ranges from standard political and economic studies to social and environmental histories, to local studies, and to regional studies with special significance to the state. The volume is divided into sections on prehistory; indigenous population; early exploration; territorial period; statehood; Kansas since 1898; agriculture; economic life; transportation; cultural life; education; science and medicine; social history; general histories and reference guides; local and county history; historiography materials; and historic sites. Entries include informative annotations designed to aid the novice and the scholar. The volume is thoroughly indexed by author and subject and includes the only existing index for all the major articles appearing over the past 125 years in the Kansas State Historical Society's major publications.
Author : Kirke Mechem
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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Kansas Historical Quarterly written by Kirke Mechem and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wright Howes
Publisher : W H R Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wright Howes, the Final Edition of U.S.iana written by Wright Howes and published by W H R Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
