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The Journal of William H. Ashley

Author : William H. Ashley
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546376668
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of William H. Ashley written by William H. Ashley and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William H. Ashley, with his partner Andrew Henry, owned a fur trading company based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Prior to the period covered by these papers, he had lost a fortune in an ill-fated attempt to establish a trapping business on the upper Missouri river. His new plan was trap the region to the south, just over the divide. The previous year, an Ashley-Henry party led by Jedediah Smith had crossed the continental divide at what came to be known as South Pass and found the valley of the Green river to be rich with beaver. Consequently, the remainder of Ashley's fur company left St. Louis and made their way up the Platte. Ashley left two documents describing the events of 1825: One is what appears to be his field diary, containing daily entries. The other is a letter to Gen. Atkinson written after Ashley's return that fall, and contains a narrative of his 1825 season in the Rockies. These two documents are mostly consistent, although the narrative appears to have been written from memory because in some cases, details are different from those recorded in the contemporaneous diary. The diary was kept from March 25 to June 27, 1825. The diary commences on the Platte, just east of the continental divide. It describes the journey to the Green River and the division of the trapping party there. It also details Ashley's trip down the Green River in bullboats, and ends just a few days before Ashley's parties met on the Henry's Fork for the first Rocky Mountain Rendezvous. The narrative covers a longer period of time, from the time he left Ft. Atkinson on November 3, 1824 until he reached the Yellowstone below Big Horn Mountain on the 7th day of August, 1825. From there he proceeded downriver in boats with his rich cargo of furs, to the settlements.

The West of William H. Ashley

Author : William Henry Ashley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book The West of William H. Ashley written by William Henry Ashley and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Life Wild and Perilous

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627798838
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book A Life Wild and Perilous written by Robert M. Utley and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier.” —Jay P. Dolan, The New York Times Book Review Early in the nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the trans-Mississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the West remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders—such as Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, and Jedediah Smith—opened paths through the snow-choked mountain wilderness. These and other Mountain Men opened the way west to Fremont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845–1848 when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question was decided, and the Mexican War ended with the Southwest and California in American hands—thus making the Pacific Ocean America’s western boundary.

The Lumbee Problem

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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261976
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Lumbee Problem written by and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly "Indian" customs come to be accepted?socially and legally?as Indians? Originally published in 1980, The Lumbee Problem traces the political and legal history of the Lumbee Indians of Robeson County, North Carolina, arguing that Lumbee political activities have been powerfully affected by the interplay between their own and others' conceptions of who they are. The book offers insights into the workings of racial ideology and practice in both the past and the present South?and particularly into the nature of Indianness as it is widely experienced among nonreservation Southeastern Indians. Race and ethnicity, as concepts and as elements guiding action, are seen to be at the heart of the matter. By exploring these issues and their implications as they are worked out in the United States, Blu brings much-needed clarity to the question of how such concepts are?or should be?applied across real and perceived cultural borders.

The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829

Author : Harrison Clifford Dale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 372 pages
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Download or read book The Ashley-Smith Explorations and the Discovery of a Central Route to the Pacific, 1822-1829 written by Harrison Clifford Dale and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

From Furs to Farms

Author : John Reda
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609091930
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book From Furs to Farms written by John Reda and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended the Seven Years' War in the early 1760s. Spain acquired the territory on the west side of the river and Great Britain the territory on the east. After the 1783 Treaty of Paris and the 1803 Louisiana Purchase, the entire region was controlled by the United States, and the white inhabitants were transformed from subjects to citizens. By 1825, Indian claims to the land that had become the states of Illinois and Missouri were nearly all extinguished, and most of the Indians had moved west. John Reda focuses on the people behind the Illinois Country's transformation from a society based on the fur trade between Europeans, Indians, and mixed-race (métis) peoples to one based on the commodification of land and the development of commercial agriculture. Many of these people were white and became active participants in the development of local, state, and federal governmental institutions. But many were Indian or métis people who lost both their lands and livelihoods, or black people who arrived—and remained—in bondage. In From Furs to Farms, Reda rewrites early national American history to include the specific people and places that make the period far more complex and compelling than what is depicted in the standard narrative. This fascinating work will interest historians, students, and general readers of US history and Midwestern studies.

After Lewis and Clark

Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295643
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book After Lewis and Clark written by Robert M. Utley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1807, a year after Lewis and Clark returned from the shores of the Pacific, groups of trappers and hunters began to drift West to tap the rich stocks of beaver and to trade with the Native nations. Colorful and eccentric, bold and adventurous, mountain men such as John Colter, George Drouillard, Hugh Glass, Andrew Henry, and Kit Carson found individual freedom and financial reward in pursuit of pelts. Their knowledge of the country and its inhabitants served the first mapmakers, the army, and the streams of emigrants moving West in ever-greater numbers. The mountain men laid the foundations for their own displacement, as they led the nation on a westward course that ultimately spread the American lands from sea to sea.

Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1366 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 1366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."

Journal

Author : United States. Congress. House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Journal written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cycle of the West

Author : John Gneisenau Neihardt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149620736X
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book A Cycle of the West written by John Gneisenau Neihardt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cycle of the West rewards its readers with a sweeping saga of the American West and John G. Neihardt's exhilarating vision of frontier history. It is infused with wonder, nostalgia, and a keen appreciation of epic history. Unquestionably the masterpiece of the poet who has been called the "American Homer," A Cycle of the West celebrates the land and legends of the Old West in five narrative poems: The Song of Three Friends (1919), The Song of Hugh Glass (1915), The Song of Jed Smith (1941), The Song of the Indian Wars (1925), and The Song of the Messiah (1935). This unforgettable epic of discovery, conquest, courage, and tragedy speaks movingly and resoundingly of a unique American experience. The new introduction by former Texas poet laureate Alan Birkelbach and annotations by Joe Green present fresh views of Neihardt's iconic work.

Annual Report of the Register of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ending

Author : United States. Register of the Treasury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the Register of the Treasury to the Secretary of the Treasury for the Fiscal Year Ending written by United States. Register of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Settlement of America

Author : James A. Crutchfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317454618
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Settlement of America written by James A. Crutchfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2015. This encyclopaedic collection includes Volumes 1 (A-L) and 2 (M-Z) as well as essays on the settlement of America. It can be argued that the westward expansion occurred only one week after the English landfall at Jamestown, Virginia, on May 14, 1607. Beginning on May 21, Captain John Smith, one of the colonization company’s leaders, and twenty-one companions made their way northwest up the James River for some 50 or 60 miles (80 or 96 km).

The United States Treasury Register

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The United States Treasury Register written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United States Treasury Register Containing a List of Persons Employed in the Treasury Department

Author : United States. Department of the Treasury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
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Download or read book The United States Treasury Register Containing a List of Persons Employed in the Treasury Department written by United States. Department of the Treasury and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866]

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Illinois ... [1861-1866] written by and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Utah Since Statehood

Author : Noble Warrum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Utah Since Statehood written by Noble Warrum and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Warrior Nations

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080615070X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Nations written by Roger L. Nichols and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the century following George Washington’s presidency, the United States fought at least forty wars with various Indian tribes, averaging one conflict every two and a half years. Warrior Nations is Roger L. Nichols’s response to the question, “Why did so much fighting take place?” Examining eight of the wars between the 1780s and 1877, Nichols explains what started each conflict and what the eight had in common as well as how they differed. He writes about the fights between the United States and the Shawnee, Miami, and Delaware tribes in the Ohio Valley, the Creek in Alabama, the Arikara in South Dakota, the Sauk and Fox in Illinois and Wisconsin, the Dakota Sioux in Minnesota, the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Colorado, the Apache in New Mexico and Arizona, and the Nez Perce in Oregon and Idaho. Virtually all of these wars, Nichols shows, grew out of small-scale local conflicts, suggesting that interracial violence preceded any formal declaration of war. American pioneers hated and feared Indians and wanted their land. Indian villages were armed camps, and their young men sought recognition for bravery and prowess in hunting and fighting. Neither the U.S. government nor tribal leaders could prevent raids, thievery, and violence when the two groups met. In addition to U.S. territorial expansion and the belligerence of racist pioneers, Nichols cites a variety of factors that led to individual wars: cultural differences, border disputes, conflicts between and within tribes, the actions of white traders and local politicians, the government’s failure to prevent or punish anti-Indian violence, and Native determination to retain their lands, traditional culture, and tribal independence. The conflicts examined here, Nichols argues, need to be considered as wars of U.S. aggression, a central feature of that nation’s expansion across the continent that brought newcomers into areas occupied by highly militarized Native communities ready and able to defend themselves and attack their enemies.