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Book Synopsis The Overland Journey from Utah to California by : Edward Leo Lyman
Download or read book The Overland Journey from Utah to California written by Edward Leo Lyman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historian Edward Leo Lyman has provided the first history of the complete Southern Route, and of the people who developed and used it. Based on extensive research in primary sources - including many early travelers accounts - and on Lyman's own investigation of the route and its branches, the book discusses the exploration and development of the Old Spanish Trail. Its horse thieves and traders, including Jedediah Smith and Kit Carson, along with government explorer John C. Fremont. Developing the old pack mule trail as a wagon road between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, miners heading for the California gold fields first used the route extensively.
Book Synopsis An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859 by : Horace Greeley
Download or read book An Overland Journey, from New York to San Francisco, in the Summer of 1859 written by Horace Greeley and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Overland Journey by : Horace Greeley
Download or read book An Overland Journey written by Horace Greeley and published by Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University Microfilms. This book was released on 1966 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of Horace Greeley's journey from New York to San Francisco in 1859.
Book Synopsis The Overland Migrations by : David Lavender
Download or read book The Overland Migrations written by David Lavender and published by National Park Service Division of Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by : E. S. Ingalls
Download or read book Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 written by E. S. Ingalls and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-04 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Trail written by Lannon W. Mintz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliography of published diaries, journals and reminiscences of those who traveled up to 2,000 miles west along the overland trail.
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 With Golden Visions Bright Before Them by : Will Bagley
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 490 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.
Book Synopsis Rescuing Beefsteak: The Story of a Pragmatic Pioneer Idealist by : Myron Harrison
Download or read book Rescuing Beefsteak: The Story of a Pragmatic Pioneer Idealist written by Myron Harrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen-year-old George Harrison emigrated from England to Utah in 1856. He was part of a Mormon family relocating to "Zion" for both religious and economic reasons. The young man, suffering from malaria and extreme food shortages in the Martin Handcart Company, abandoned his family and spent a winter with a compassionate Indian family that saved him from starvation. Soon after, at Fort Laramie, Harrison served as a civilian cook for an army surgeon. He accompanied troops during the march into Salt Lake City in 1858 and cooked at Camp Floyd. Upon the camp's closure in 1861, he cooked at an Overland Stage and Pony Express station. George Harrison subsequently worked as a freighter and served in the Black Hawk War. In mid-life he built a small restaurant and hotel in Springville, Utah. Harrison's cooking, singing, and story telling attracted "drummers" (traveling salesmen) who gave the restaurateur the name of "Beefsteak" because of the quality of his steaks.
Book Synopsis The Rand-McNally Guide to California Via "The Overland Route" by : Alfred Darlow
Download or read book The Rand-McNally Guide to California Via "The Overland Route" written by Alfred Darlow and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sweet Freedom's Plains by : Shirley Ann Wilson Moore
Download or read book Sweet Freedom's Plains written by Shirley Ann Wilson Moore and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The westward migration of nearly half a million Americans in the mid-nineteenth century looms large in U.S. history. Classic images of rugged Euro-Americans traversing the plains in their prairie schooners still stir the popular imagination. But this traditional narrative, no matter how alluring, falls short of the actual—and far more complex—reality of the overland trails. Among the diverse peoples who converged on the western frontier were African American pioneers—men, women, and children. Whether enslaved or free, they too were involved in this transformative movement. Sweet Freedom’s Plains is a powerful retelling of the migration story from their perspective. Tracing the journeys of black overlanders who traveled the Mormon, California, Oregon, and other trails, Shirley Ann Wilson Moore describes in vivid detail what they left behind, what they encountered along the way, and what they expected to find in their new, western homes. She argues that African Americans understood advancement and prosperity in ways unique to their situation as an enslaved and racially persecuted people, even as they shared many of the same hopes and dreams held by their white contemporaries. For African Americans, the journey westward marked the beginning of liberation and transformation. At the same time, black emigrants’ aspirations often came into sharp conflict with real-world conditions in the West. Although many scholars have focused on African Americans who settled in the urban West, their early trailblazing voyages into the Oregon Country, Utah Territory, New Mexico Territory, and California deserve greater attention. Having combed censuses, maps, government documents, and white overlanders’ diaries, along with the few accounts written by black overlanders or passed down orally to their living descendants, Moore gives voice to the countless, mostly anonymous black men and women who trekked the plains and mountains. Sweet Freedom’s Plains places African American overlanders where they belong—at the center of the western migration narrative. Their experiences and perspectives enhance our understanding of this formative period in American history.
Book Synopsis Country Never Trod by : Michael D. Kane
Download or read book Country Never Trod written by Michael D. Kane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Lewis Manly was a forty-niner, explorer, and humanitarian whose story most people have never heard. Born in Vermont, William Lewis Manly was drawn out west by the lure of gold. Previous scholarship claims that the Yankee frontiersman floated only 290 miles down the Green River to the Uinta Basin, but author Michael D. Kane’s research of primary source materials led him to the conclusion that Manly actually traveled 415 miles, all the way to what is now Green River, Utah. This would make Manly the first to explore much of the Green River by boat—twenty years before John Wesley Powell’s famous expedition. Determined to prove his theory and establish Manly’s legacy as a trailblazer, Kane conducted research and then built his own wooden canoes and made the trip, tracing Manly’s footsteps and comparing notes with the earlier traveler. Country Never Trod follows Manly’s little-known expedition down the Green River and his overland trek through some of the most desolate stretches of Utah, interspersed with Kane’s journal entries and photographs documenting his own trip.
Book Synopsis The Overland Migrations by : U. S. National Park Service
Download or read book The Overland Migrations written by U. S. National Park Service and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-19 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Overland Migrations: Settlers to Oregon, California, and Utah The busy outfitters of the neighboring towns of Independence and Westport, Missouri - merchants, innkeepers, blacksmiths, saddlers, and the rest - had never before seen such a crowd of movers as the one that poured through their muddy streets in the spring of 1843. Not that the frontier businessmen weren't used to travelers. Each spring for the past 20 years specially built freight wagons had been traveling from Missouri along the famed Santa Fe Trail to New Mexico and, some of them, on south as far as Chihuahua. But the sinewy roustabouts and the Mexican and American proprietors of those caravans were entirely male - adventurers, not set tlers seeking new homes. By fall most would be back with the bars of gold and silver bullion, the jingling silver pesos, the sacks of coarse wool, and the herds of fine Spanish mules that were the fruit of their bartering. This influx was different. Numbering close to a thousand persons, it was composed for the most part of families. Members ranged in age from an occasional grandfather and grandmother down to a scattering of babes - even unborn babes to judge from the appearance of a few of the women. They planned to journey to the Pacific Coast - more than twice as far as Santa Fe - ih ordinary farm wagons covered with flimsy roofs of canvas. What was more, none of those setting forth that year intended, at least at the outset, to come back again. When news of this gathering reached New York, Horace Greeley, editor of the influential Tribune, picked up his pen in amazement. Years later, Gree ley would advise the youth of the nation, Go west, young man, and grow up with the country. In 1843, however, he wasn't ready for so radical an idea. Instead he wrote scornfully, This migration of more than a thousand persons in one body to Oregon wears an aspect of insanity. 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.
Book Synopsis Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by : Eleazer Stillman Ingalls
Download or read book Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 written by Eleazer Stillman Ingalls and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Overland Journey to California by : James Bennett
Download or read book Overland Journey to California written by James Bennett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1906 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Overland Journey to California: Journal of James Bennett Whose Party Left New Harmony in 1850 and Crossed the Plains and Mountains Until the Golden West Was Reached The ruddy glow shone sparkling up on the bosom oi the river and exposed the course for the canoes loaded with friends who were coming to speak a last farewell The journal says the argonauts and visitors danced upon the grassy bank of the river and passed the last night in an attempt to drive away painful reflections. 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.
Download or read book Nevada written by Michael S. Green and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada: A History of the Silver State has been named a CHOICE Outstanding Title. Michael S. Green, a leading Nevada historian, provides a detailed survey of the Silver State’s past, from the arrival of the early European explorers, to the predominance of mining in the 1800s, to the rise of world-class tourism in the twentieth century, and to more recent attempts to diversify the economy. Of the numerous themes central to Green’s analysis of Nevada’s history, luck plays a significant role in the state’s growth. The miners and gamblers who first visited the state all bet on luck. Today, the biggest contributor to Nevada’s tourist economy, gaming, still relies on that same belief in luck. Nevada’s financial system has generally been based on a “one industry” economy, first mining and, more recently, gaming. Green delves deeply into the limitations of this structure, while also exploring the theme of exploitation of the land and the overuse of the state’s natural resources. Green covers many more aspects of the Silver State’s narrative, including the dominance of one region of the state over another, political forces and corruption, and the citizens’ often tumultuous relationship with the federal government. The book will appeal to scholars, students, and other readers interested in Nevada history.
Book Synopsis The Overland Migrations by : Gordon Press Publishers
Download or read book The Overland Migrations written by Gordon Press Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1997-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
