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The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail

Author : Donald H. Shannon
Publisher : Tamarack Books
ISBN 13 : 9780963582829
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book The Utter Disaster on the Oregon Trail written by Donald H. Shannon and published by Tamarack Books. This book was released on 1993 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1860 on the South Alternate Route of the Oregon Trail in the Snake River Country of present day Idaho and Oregon. A rare instance when Indians not only attempted but maintained a successful attack on encircled emigrant wagons. Attacks on the Utter wagon train and then on the survivors resulted in the greatest loss of life to an emigrant train and to the attacking Indians, of any such encounters. Survivors' starvation camp on the Owyhee River and eventual rescue by an army expedition commanded by Captain Frederick T. Dent (his sister married U.S. Grant). Discovery of the Van Ornum massacre -- the bodies "gleaming in the moonlight"--By a fast-moving dragoon force led by Lieutenant Marcus A. Reno (later with Custer at the Little Big Horn). Two-year attempt to rescue children held captive by the Shoshoni as the US Army disintegrated at the onset of the Civil War."--Cover.

The Boise Massacre on the Oregon Trail

Author : Donald H. Shannon
Publisher : Snake Country
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Boise Massacre on the Oregon Trail written by Donald H. Shannon and published by Snake Country. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Shannon devoted more than two decades to documenting attacks on emigrant trains on the Oregion and California trails in the region that later became the state of Idaho. In The Boise Massacre on the Oregon Trail, Shannon details attacks that occurred in 1854 and 1859, including the grisly Ward Massacre on the Boise River near present-day Caldwell, Idaho. Shannon's latest book profiles many of the victims of the attacks and the response of the military to the deaths. It also includes material from many emigrant diaries.

A Fate Worse Than Death

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 0870044869
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book A Fate Worse Than Death written by Gregory Michno and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivity narratives have been a standard genre of writings about Indians of the East for several centuries.a Until now, the West has been almost entirely neglected.a Now Gregory and Susan Michno have rectified that with this painstakenly researched collection of vivid and often brutal accounts of what happened to those men and women and children that were captured by marauding Indians during the settlement of the West."

The Great Medicine Road, Part 4

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166991
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 4 written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than a half-million people followed trails to Oregon, California, and Utah in one of the largest mass migrations in American history. The Great Medicine Road, Part 4 collects the letters, diaries, and reminiscences of some of the emigrants who made this journey between 1856 and 1869, as a second generation of miners, farmers, town builders, and religious believers turned their adventurous eyes westward in search of new beginnings. Here, in their own words, are the experiences of young men hoping to make their fortunes in mining operations that had sprung up as the gold rush wore down, in California but also now in the silver mines of Nevada’s Comstock Lode and the recently discovered gold mines of Colorado’s Denver and Pike’s Peak regions. Here also are families and farmers looking for land in the fertile Willamette Valley of Oregon, or joining the Mormon community in Utah. And here are the stories of intrepid sojourners traveling with—or without—military escorts as the Civil War, conflicts with Indians, and the Mormon stand against the U.S. government altered the circumstances of westward traffic. These documents, with an introduction and editorial notes written by historian Michael L. Tate to provide context and commentary, comprise the fourth and final installment in a documentary history of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails. They give a living voice to the history of the American experience at a time of westward expansion and profound, unprecedented change.

Warrior's Heart

Author : Georgina Gentry
Publisher : Zebra Books
ISBN 13 : 1420138405
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Warrior's Heart written by Georgina Gentry and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2014-05-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Danger and desire await on the Oregon trail for two members of a wagon train in this epic historical romance by the author of Warrior’s Honor. HE LIVED WITH SAVAGE ABANDON . . . A half-Indian wanted for murder among his own native Shoshoni, Rider is hard and bitter from the injustice that has sealed his fate. Now, his only goal is survival. But when he sees lovely, vulnerable Emma Trent, a woman heartlessly denied passage on a wagon train bound for the Oregon trail, he offers to lead the train—but only if she is permitted to come along. And though he plans only to sate his lust with her, Rider soon finds that the spirited beauty has challenged him to love. . . .UNTIL SHE CAPTURED HIS PASSIONATE HEART Emma invested all her life savings in the wagon train, only to be cruelly cast out by a greedy bunch of greenhorns. The powerful half-Indian came to her rescue, demanding an impossible price: she will share his bed. Desperate to make it to Oregon, she surrenders to his touch, while secretly vowing to seek revenge. Yet as the train moves through the treacherous territory, as hate softens in the sensual embrace of a skilled lover, and tender intimacy replaces false pride, Emma discovers a love she cannot deny. “Georgina Gentry brings the West to life and gives her fans hours of true reading pleasure” —RT Book Reviews

The Great Medicine Road, Part 1

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147490
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs-many previously unpublished-accompanied by biographical information and historical background.

The Deadliest Indian War in the West

Author : Gregory Michno
Publisher : Caxton Press
ISBN 13 : 0870044877
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Deadliest Indian War in the West written by Gregory Michno and published by Caxton Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gregroy Michno, author of several critically acclaimed books on America's Indian wars, gives readers the first comprehensive look at the natives, soldiers and settlers who clashed on the high desert of Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Oregon and Northern California in a struggle that, over a four-year period, claimed more lives than any other western Indian War.

Violent Encounters

Author : Deborah Lawrence
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806184345
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Violent Encounters written by Deborah Lawrence and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies. The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the Sand Creek Massacre, the Battle of the Washita, and the Mountain Meadows Massacre are iconic events that have been repeatedly described and analyzed, but the interviews included in this volume offer new points of view. Other events discussed here are little-known today, such as the Camp Grant Massacre, in which Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians killed more than a hundred Pinal and Aravaipa Apache men, women, and children. In addition to specific events, the interviews cover broader themes such as violence in early California; hostilities between the frontier army and the Sioux, including the Santee Sioux Revolt and Wounded Knee; and violence between European Americans and Great Basin tribes, such as the Bear River Massacre. The scholars interviewed include academic historians, public historians, an anthropologist, and a journalist. The interview format provides insights into the methodology and tools of historical research and allows questions and speculations often absent from conventional, written accounts. The scholars share their latest thoughts on long-standing controversies, address the political uses often made of history, and discuss the need to incorporate multiple viewpoints. Scholars and students of history and historiography will be fascinated by the nuts-and-bolts information about the practice of history revealed in these interviews. In addition, readers with specific interests in the events discussed will gain much new information and many fresh insights.

Left by the Indians: Story of My Life

Author : Emeline Fuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520369068
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Left by the Indians: Story of My Life written by Emeline Fuller and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left by the Indians is an eyewitness account of the Utter-Van Ornum wagon train massacre on the Oregon Trail. Includes an introduction by Ethan E. Harris for the updated version.

The Great Medicine Road, Part 1

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806147482
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background. Beginning with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet’s letters relating his encounters with Plains Indians, and ending with an account of a Mormon gold miner’s journey from California to Salt Lake City, these narratives tell varied and vivid stories. Some travelers fled hard times: religious persecution, the collapse of the agricultural economy, illness, or unpredictable weather. Others looked ahead, attracted by California gold, the verdant Willamette Valley of Oregon, or the prospect of converting Native people to Christianity. Although many welcomed the adventure and adjusted to the rigors of trail life, others complained in their accounts of difficulty adapting. Remembrances of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails have yielded some of the most iconic images in American history. This and forthcoming volumes in The Great Medicine Road series present the pioneer spirit of the original overlanders supported by the rich scholarship of the past century and a half.

Above Snakes

Author : Patti Hudson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511400848
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Above Snakes written by Patti Hudson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Above Snakes vividly brings to life the little known story of the Utter-Van Orman wagon train and the deadliest events in the history of the Oregon Trail. Old Man Munson is afraid he'll never leave Fort Hall. It's too late to expect another wagon train; the soldiers are packing up and leaving it to the Indians already gathering there for the winter. Worn out from months on the trail, his wagon destroyed and his provisions lost, Munson is about to give up hope. Thirteen-year old Emeline Trimble is also losing hope. Her stepfather is an incompetent wagon master and she's worried they won't make the Blue Mountains before snowfall. The young girl's concern only deepens when they finally reach Fort Hall, find it thick with Indians, the army in retreat and a strange old man begging for a ride.Munson thinks his luck has turned. But he's about to join this late group of travelers as they enter the most desolate stretch of the trail and begin a harrowing 400-mile ordeal that will test the limits of their endurance. Who among them has what it takes to survive?

Massacring Indians

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806170018
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Massacring Indians written by Roger L. Nichols and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenous populations, and some of the conflicts stand out today as massacres, as they involved violent attacks on often defenseless Native communities, including women and children. Although historians have written full-length studies about each of these episodes, Massacring Indians is the first to present them as part of a larger pattern of aggression, perpetuated by heartless or inept military commanders. In clear and accessible prose, veteran historian Roger L. Nichols examines ten significant massacres committed by U.S. Army units against American Indians. The battles range geographically from Alabama to Montana and include such well-known atrocities as Sand Creek, Washita, and Wounded Knee. Nichols explores the unique circumstances of each event, including its local context. At the same time, looking beyond the confusion and bloodshed of warfare, he identifies elements common to all the massacres. Unforgettable details emerge in the course of his account: inadequate training of U.S. soldiers, overeagerness to punish Indians, an inflated desire for glory among individual officers, and even careless mistakes resulting in attacks on the wrong village or band. As the author chronicles the collective tragedy of the massacres, he highlights the roles of well-known frontier commanders, ranging from Andrew Jackson to John Chivington and George Armstrong Custer. In many cases, Nichols explains, it was lower-ranking officers who bore the responsibility and blame for the massacres, even though orders came from the higher-ups. During the nineteenth century and for years thereafter, white settlers repeatedly used the term “massacre” to describe Indian raids, rather than the reverse. They lacked the understanding to differentiate such raids—Indians defending their homeland against invasion—from the aggressive decimation of peaceful Indian villages by U.S. troops. Even today it may be tempting for some to view the massacres as exceptions to the norm. By offering a broader synthesis of the attacks, Massacring Indians uncovers a more disturbing truth: that slaughtering innocent people was routine practice for U.S. troops and their leaders.

National Historic Trails

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book National Historic Trails written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Meek Cutoff

Author : Brooks Geer Ragen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295806869
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.

Indians and Emigrants

Author : Michael L. Tate
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806182040
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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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.

Agents of Empire

Author : James Robbins Jewell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496233034
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Agents of Empire written by James Robbins Jewell and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Robbins Jewell examines the First Oregon Cavalry Regiment's role in protecting and policing the Pacific Northwest during the Civil War.

Oh, Give Me a Home

Author : Ann Ronald
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137995
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)

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Download or read book Oh, Give Me a Home written by Ann Ronald and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A realistic but nostalgic look at the land that is as much a state of mind as it is an actual place examines what it means to be a westerner today and how present actions are shaping the landscapes, institutions, culture, and potential of the American West for future generations. Original.