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Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Download or read book The Lure of the Frontier written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
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ISBN 13 : 9780911548570
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (485 download)
Download or read book Lure of the Frontier written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1976-08-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wayde Bulow
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781469733500
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Lure of the Mountains written by Wayde Bulow and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-03-17 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lure of the Mountains is about a young man who is fascinated and in awe of the larger than life men of the far mountains. Tragedy strikes his family as they are traveling west and the young man is now free to follow his dreams to become a mountain man. Danger and adventure follow the young man as he struggles to survive when he enters the mountains. As he struggles to survive in the harsh wilderness without being prepared, he luckily befreinds a wounded Indian Warrior and is adopted into the Warrior's tribe. He slowly learns the lessons of survival and is taken in by a mountain man who teaches him to trap and fend for his own. He takes an Indian wife and discovers a love for his family that is as strong as his love for the mountains. They make their home in a high mountain valley, and it's here he enjoys the freedom of the mountains as well as the joy of raising his family.
Author : Shumei Shi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520220641
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Lure of the Modern written by Shumei Shi and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-04-20 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quite apart from her contributions as a literary critic, Shu-mei Shih is able to historicize literary developments of the period most persuasively. Her analysis of Shanghai, the city, and the literary movement it spawned, is crafted with great sensitivity to both history and literature. In many ways, it is the most inclusive historical study of modern Chinese literature in its formative period."—Prasenjit Duara, author of Rescuing History from the Nation "Tracing the spectral production of 'Chinese' identity as it is disseminated globally, Shih boldly moves away from using place (ethnicity) and the body (race) to anchor Chinese identity, to argue that the visual (film) and the verbal (language and linguistics) are the most salient ones in the modern and contemporary historical formation. She succeeds brilliantly."—David Palumbo-Liu, author of Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial Frontier "This is the most thoroughly researched study of Chinese modernism published to date. The author's theoretical interventions greatly enrich our understanding of colonial modernity and the stakes of comparison in cross-cultural studies. The book is a major contribution to modern Chinese literary studies and comparative literature."—Lydia Liu, editor of Tokens of Exchange
Download or read book The Pageant of America: The lure of the frontier written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Pageant of America: The lure of the frontier written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pageant of America: The lure of the frontier, a story of race conflict, by R.H. Gabriel written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pageant of America: The lure of the frontier, a story of race conflict, by R. H. Gabriel written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everett Newfon Dick
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Lure of the Land written by Everett Newfon Dick and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The process of transfer to private ownership of government land or government-supervised Indian land was the woof thread on the loom of the frontier,' the author writes in his preface. 'This thread was continually interlaced with hard experiences in the struggle for existence, thus weaving the fabric of the social and economic history of the American frontier. My aim in this book is to trace this thread from government ownership of the land into private hands.' Although Thomas Jefferson reckoned that the march of population from the Appalachians to the Pacific would take one hundred generations, by 1935 the western wilderness, created by law in the 1780s as the 'unreserved and unappropriated public domain,' had all but vanished. It is the human side of this process of land distribution that Professor Dick examines--'how the land-hungry pioneer interpreted the land laws, or ignored them; his success in "handing up laws" to Congress by frontier usage when existing statutes were inadequate for his needs; his custom of illegally exploiting the natural resources; and the final end of exploitation and the coming of a policy of conservation.' After a brief discussion of colonial land policies and the formation of the public domain in the post-Revolutionary period, the author describes the adoption of the surveying system, the actual work of the surveyors, and how the land was distributed to settlers. There follow chapters on the squatter; the use of land by lumbering interests; the struggle for pre-emption; the campaign of the West for free land and the passage of the Homestead Act; the problems which accompanied the acquisition of land from foreign governments; the occupation and exploitation of the mineral lands; the occupation and use of the grasslands with a discussion of the range wars; land given for internal improvements such as railroads; the openings of Indian reservations with their land rushes or drawings; the final occupancy of the dry land for use by dry-land farming or irrigation; and finally the coming of conservation and the establishment of the permanent public domain in the form of national forests and grazing land. Professor Dick's work goes beyond present books on land in the realm of human interest, for it deals with the people themselves, not with acts of Congress or legal decisions. It also goes deeper than previously published works into such areas as the development of claim clubs, squatting, and the holding of public land by individuals for extended use or speculation while waiting to sell at an advance over the government price."--Dust jacket.
Author : Robert C. Ritchie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520395573
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book The Lure of the Beach written by Robert C. Ritchie and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A human and global take on a beloved vacation spot. The crash of surf, smell of salted air, wet whorls of sand underfoot. These are the sensations of the beach, that environment that has drawn humans to its life-sustaining shores for millennia. And while the gull’s cry and the cove’s splendor have remained constant throughout time, our relationship with the beach has been as fluid as the runnels left behind by the tide’s turning. The Lure of the Beach is a chronicle of humanity's history with the coast, taking us from the seaside pleasure palaces of Roman elites and the aquatic rituals of medieval pilgrims, to the venues of modern resort towns and beyond. Robert C. Ritchie traces the contours of the material and social economies of the beach throughout time, covering changes in the social status of beach goers, the technology of transport, and the development of fashion (from nudity to Victorianism and back again), as well as the geographic spread of modern beach-going from England to France, across the Mediterranean, and from nineteenth-century America to the world. And as climate change and rising sea levels erode the familiar faces of our coasts, we are poised for a contemporary reckoning with our relationship—and responsibilities—to our beaches and their ecosystems. The Lure of the Beach demonstrates that whether as a commodified pastoral destination, a site of ecological resplendency, or a flashpoint between private ownership and public access, the history of the beach is a human one that deserves to be told now more than ever before.
Author : L. Newton Hayes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Lure of the Sunset written by L. Newton Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Pageant of America, Vol. 2 written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ralph Henry Gabriel
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Pageant of America #2 written by Ralph Henry Gabriel and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Shaw
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743442709
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Frontier House written by Simon Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
Author : Samuel Forman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493044621
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Ill-Fated Frontier written by Samuel Forman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American frontier in 1789. The melting pot America would become was barely simmering when an ill-fated attempt to settle land near Natchez in brought together a volatile mix of ambitious Northern pioneers and their slaves, Spanish colonists, and Native Americans who had claimed the land as theirs for hundreds of years. This illuminating episode in American history comes to life in this account of an expedition gone wrong. It began with an optimistic plan to settle and expand in the new territory. It ended ignominiously, with the body of one of the expedition’s leaders returning to New Jersey stored in a pickle barrel. What happened in between—a cautionary tale of greed, incompetence, and hubris—lies at the center of this fascinating account by Harvard historian Samuel A. Forman. Endorsed by New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick, it is a startling and frank portrait of a young America that examines the dream of an inclusive American experience and its reality—a debate that continues today. Imperious General David Forman, a terror to his Monmouth County, New Jersey, Loyalist neighbors, during the Revolutionary War obtained a large land grant in Natchez, then part of Spanish West Florida. His charge was to establish a plantation that would lure settlers and establish a new American presence. Staying behind in New Jersey David Forman appointed his rotund and gouty older brother Ezekiel as leader of the expedition, his young cousin Samuel S. Forman as its business manager, and a former military aide as overseer of the enslaved African Americans who accompanied them. It did not go well. When the expedition finally reached the new territory it found waiting Spanish colonials who felt the land was theirs and Native Americans who still maintained their sovereignty over the contested lands. When Ezekiel Forman died unexpectedly, David Forman stormed from New Jersey into Natchez to take control of the unraveling situation. He would find on his arrival that those awaiting him had other ideas about who the land actually belonged to. He would return to New Jersey quite dead and pickled in a barrel of rum. Lively, impeccably researched, and rich in details that have escaped the usual tales of American growth and enterprise, Ill-Fated Frontier shines new and entertaining light on what it means to be an American.
Author : Larry J Hoefling
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595359140
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Chasing the Frontier written by Larry J Hoefling and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Scots-Irish is one of the struggles and achievements of an American immigrant group that existed for only a short period, whose descendants continued to make their marks on the young country for generations. From the North of Ireland to the backwoods of the American frontier, the tale of the Scots-Irish includes a massive exodus to the New World, where they founded communities in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the Irish Tract of North Carolina during the Revolutionary War era. Containing nearly six thousand names of documented settlers of the primarily Scots-Irish settlements of Virginia and North Carolina, Chasing The Frontier includes materials from church records, military records, early wills and deeds, and newspapers of the time. For the frontier families, life was a daily test of endurance and hardship, but the Scots-Irish also found time for horseracing, gambling, and socializing, and the migration of this hardy race and the lure of the frontiers of Kentucky and Tennessee led to the founding of churches and state charters, and elections to some of the highest offices in the country. Chasing the Frontier is a snapshot of everyday life for the pioneering Scots-Irish in early America.
Author : Dorothy Wickenden
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439176604
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Nothing Daunted written by Dorothy Wickenden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Agitators, the acclaimed and captivating true story of two restless society girls who left their affluent lives to “rough it” as teachers in the wilds of Colorado in 1916. In the summer of 1916, Dorothy Woodruff and Rosamond Underwood, bored by society luncheons, charity work, and the effete men who courted them, left their families in Auburn, New York, to teach school in the wilds of northwestern Colorado. They lived with a family of homesteaders in the Elkhead Mountains and rode to school on horseback, often in blinding blizzards. Their students walked or skied, in tattered clothes and shoes tied together with string. The young cattle rancher who had lured them west, Ferry Carpenter, had promised them the adventure of a lifetime. He hadn’t let on that they would be considered dazzling prospective brides for the locals. Nearly a hundred years later, Dorothy Wickenden, the granddaughter of Dorothy Woodruff, found the teachers’ buoyant letters home, which captured the voices of the pioneer women, the children, and other unforgettable people the women got to know. In reconstructing their journey, Wickenden has created an exhilarating saga about two intrepid women and the “settling up” of the West.
