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Westward Vision

Author : David Lavender
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803279155
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book Westward Vision written by David Lavender and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?In one very real sense,? David Lavender writes, ?the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus.? This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the ?westward vision? that impelled the early explorers of the American interior looking for a northwest passage and send fur trappers into the region charted by Lewis and Clark. For the emigrants following the trappers? routes, that vision gradually grew into a sense of a manifest American destiny. ø Lavender describes the efforts of emigration societies, of missionaries like Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, and of early pioneer settlers like Hall Jackson Kelley, Jason Lee, and Thomas Jefferson Farnham, as well as the routes they took to the ?Promised Land.? He concludes by recounting the first large-scale emigrations of 1843?45, which steeled the U. S. government for war with Mexico and agreements with Britain over the Oregon boundary. ø

Manifest Destinies

Author : Steven E. Woodworth
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307594645
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Manifest Destinies written by Steven E. Woodworth and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the 1840s, Manifest Destinies captures the enormous sense of possibility that inspired America’s growth and shows how the acquisition of western territories forced the nation to come to grips with the deep fault line that would bring war in the near future. Steven E. Woodworth gives us a portrait of America at its most vibrant and expansive. It was a decade in which the nation significantly enlarged its boundaries, taking Texas, New Mexico, California, and the Pacific Northwest; William Henry Harrison ran the first modern populist campaign, focusing on entertaining voters rather than on discussing issues; prospectors headed west to search for gold; Joseph Smith founded a new religion; railroads and telegraph lines connected the country’s disparate populations as never before. When the 1840s dawned, Americans were feeling optimistic about the future: the population was growing, economic conditions were improving, and peace had reigned for nearly thirty years. A hopeful nation looked to the West, where vast areas of unsettled land seemed to promise prosperity to anyone resourceful enough to take advantage. And yet political tensions roiled below the surface; as the country took on new lands, slavery emerged as an irreconcilable source of disagreement between North and South, and secession reared its head for the first time. Rich in detail and full of dramatic events and fascinating characters, Manifest Destinies is an absorbing and highly entertaining account of a crucial decade that forged a young nation’s character and destiny.

Westward Vision. The Story of the Oregon Trail ... With Illustrations by Marian Ebert

Author : David Lavender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Westward Vision. The Story of the Oregon Trail ... With Illustrations by Marian Ebert written by David Lavender and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Westward Expansion

Author : James F. Salisbury
Publisher : In the Hands of a Child
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Westward Expansion written by James F. Salisbury and published by In the Hands of a Child. This book was released on 1994 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 8-week interdisciplinary unit for fourth- and fifth-grade students helps children address the U.S. westward expansion in the 1840's using the interactive software program, The Oregon Trail. The unit provides connections to literature, geography, computer/mathematics skills, language arts, and research skills. The work is done in cooperative groups over the course of the unit with a variety of assessment strategies suggested. Worksheets, handouts, and student materials are included. Upon completion of the unit students will be able to: (1) locate and identify the states along the Oregon Trail; (2) identify reasons for westward expansion; (3) gain a basic understanding of some of the native North American culture; (4) participate in collaborative group activities; and (5) demonstrate knowledge of life in the 1840s--food, clothing, families, etc. Selected bibliography contains 32 items. (EH)

Reports of the United States Tax Court

Author : United States. Tax Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reports of the United States Tax Court written by United States. Tax Court and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Visions of Paradise

Author : John Warfield Simpson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520213647
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Paradise written by John Warfield Simpson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-04-15 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes which they encountered, settled in, modified, and moved westward from during the last three centuries.

Hell of a Vision

Author : Robert L. Dorman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599432
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Hell of a Vision written by Robert L. Dorman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American West has taken on a rich and evocative array of regional identities since the late nineteenth century. Wilderness wonderland, Hispanic borderland, homesteader’s frontier, cattle kingdom, urban dynamo, Native American homeland. Hell of a Vision explores the evolution of these diverse identities during the twentieth century, revealing how Western regionalism has been defined by generations of people seeking to understand the West’s vast landscapes and varied cultures. Focusing on the American West from the 1890s up to the present, Dorman provides us with a wide-ranging view of the impact of regionalist ideas in pop culture and diverse fields such as geography, land-use planning, anthropology, journalism, and environmental policy-making. Going well beyond the realm of literature, Dorman broadens the discussion by examining a unique mix of texts. He looks at major novelists such as Cather, Steinbeck, and Stegner, as well as leading Native American writers. But he also analyzes a variety of nonliterary sources in his book, such as government reports, planning documents, and environmental impact studies. Hell of a Vision is a compelling journey through the modern history of the American West—a key region in the nation of regions known as the United States.

Replenishing the Earth

Author : James Belich
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199604541
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Replenishing the Earth written by James Belich and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pioneering study of the anglophone 'settler boom' in North America, Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand between the early 19th and early 20th centuries, looking at what made it the most successful of all such settler revolutions, and how this laid the basis of British and American power in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Tree Planting Book

Author : American Tree Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tree Planting Book written by American Tree Association and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Eye for History

Author : Dean Knudsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book An Eye for History written by Dean Knudsen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stepping Westward

Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192590227
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.

Westward vision

Author : David Lavender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Westward vision written by David Lavender and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Westward the Dream (Ribbons West Book #1)

Author : Judith Pella
Publisher : Bethany House
ISBN 13 : 1441232370
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Westward the Dream (Ribbons West Book #1) written by Judith Pella and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the U.S. descends into the Civil War, photographer Brenton Baldwin travels west with his sister Jordana, taking pictures of the developing lands and in search of their sister. Along for the trip is young Caitlan O'Connor, who has just arrived from Ireland. Will they make it to California to find their family despite the danger that looms ahead? And can early romance grow into love in the face of trials and tragedy?

South Pass

Author : Will Bagley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145110
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book South Pass written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Stegner called South Pass “one of the most deceptive and impressive places in the West.” Nowhere can travelers cross the Rockies so easily as through this high, treeless valley in Wyoming immediately south of the Wind River Mountains. South Pass has received much attention in lore and memory but attracted no serious book-length study—until now. In this narrative, award-winning author Will Bagley explains the significance of South Pass to the nation’s history and to the development of the American West. Fur traders first saw South Pass in 1812. From the early 1840s until the completion of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific Railroads almost forty years later, emigrants on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails used South Pass in transforming the American West in a single generation. Bagley traces the peopling of the region by the earliest inhabitants and adventurers, including Indian peoples, trappers and fur traders, missionaries, and government-commissioned explorers. Later, California gold rushers, Latter-day Saints, and families seeking new lives went through this singular gap in the Rockies. Without South Pass, overland wagons beginning their journey far to the east along the Missouri River could not have reached their destinations in a single season, and western settlement might have been delayed for decades. The story of South Pass offers a rich history. The Overland Stage, Pony Express, and first transcontinental telegraph all came through the region. Nearly a century later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower designated South Pass as one of America’s first National Historic Landmarks. An American place so rich in historical significance, Bagley argues, deserves the best of historical preservation efforts.

Special History Report, Albert Gallatin, Statesman, Diplomat, Humanitarian, Scientist

Author : Louis Torres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Special History Report, Albert Gallatin, Statesman, Diplomat, Humanitarian, Scientist written by Louis Torres and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Raising the Flag

Author : Peter Eicher
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1612349706
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Raising the Flag written by Peter Eicher and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception the United States has sent envoys to advance American interests abroad, both across oceans and to areas that later became part of the country. Little has been known about these first envoys until now. From China to Chile, Tripoli to Tahiti, Mexico to Muscat, Peter D. Eicher chronicles the experience of the first American envoys in foreign lands. Their stories, often stranger than fiction, are replete with intrigues, revolutions, riots, war, shipwrecks, swashbucklers, desperadoes, and bootleggers. The circumstances the diplomats faced were precursors to today’s headlines: Americans at war in the Middle East, intervention in Latin America, pirates off Africa, trade deficits with China. Early envoys abroad faced hostile governments, physical privations, disease, isolation, and the daunting challenge of explaining American democracy to foreign rulers. Many suffered threats from tyrannical despots, some were held as slaves or hostages, and others led foreign armies into battle. Some were heroes, some were scoundrels, and many perished far from home. From the American Revolution to the Civil War, Eicher profiles the characters who influenced the formative period of American diplomacy and the first steps the United States took as a world power. Their experiences combine to chart key trends in the development of early U.S. foreign policy that continue to affect us today. Raising the Flag illuminates how American ideas, values, and power helped shape the modern world.

The Fate of the Corps

Author : Larry E. Morris
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130244
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Fate of the Corps written by Larry E. Morris and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-10 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Combines adventure, mystery, and tragedy . . . a ‘Who’s Who’ of explorers who opened the pathway for an ocean-to-ocean America.” —St. Joseph News-Press (Missouri) The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the Corps of Discovery once the expedition was over? The expedition ended in 1806, and the final member of the corps passed away in 1870. In the intervening decades, members of the corps witnessed the momentous events of the nation they helped to form—from the War of 1812 to the Civil War and the opening of the transcontinental railroad. Some of the expedition members went on to hold public office; two were charged with murder. Many of the explorers could not resist the call of the wild and continued to adventure forth into America’s western frontier. Engagingly written and based on exhaustive research, The Fate of the Corps chronicles the lives of the fascinating men (and one woman) who opened the American West. “A fascinating afterword to the expedition . . . demands inclusion in the canon of essential Lewis and Clark books.”—Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Succinct, clear style . . . The diverse fates of the members of the expedition . . . give the feel of a Greek epic.”—Santa Fe New Mexican