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Author : Oregon Trail Memorial Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Covered-wagon Centennial and Ox-team Days written by Oregon Trail Memorial Association and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank McLynn
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802199143
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Wagons West written by Frank McLynn and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian’s “compellingly told” year-by-year account of the pioneering efforts to conquer the American West in the mid-nineteenth century (The Guardian). In all the sagas of human migration, few can top the drama of the journey by Midwestern farmers to Oregon and California from 1840 to 1849—between the era of the fur trappers and the beginning of the gold rush. Even with mountain men as guides, these pioneers literally plunged into the unknown, braving all manner of danger, including hunger, thirst, disease, and drowning. Employing numerous illustrations and extensive primary sources, including original diaries and memoirs, McLynn underscores the incredible heroism and dangerous folly on the overland trails. His authoritative narrative investigates the events leading up to the opening of the trails, the wagons and animals used, the roles of women, relations with Native Americans, and much else. The climax arrives in McLynn’s expertly re-created tale of the dreadful Donner party, and he closes with Brigham Young and the Mormons beginning communities of their own. Full of high drama, tragedy, and triumph, “rarely has a book so wonderfully brought to life the riveting tales of Americans’ trek to the Pacific” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300153511
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Women and Men on the Overland Trail written by John Mack Faragher and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Author : Ezra Meeker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book Ox-team Days on the Oregon Trail written by Ezra Meeker and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dennis M. Larsen
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 163682062X
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Saving the Oregon Trail written by Dennis M. Larsen and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Meeker lived ninety-eight highly productive years. At times endearing and captivating, he could also be exasperating and irrational. Once he committed to a cause, he was an unabashed promoter. Meeker devoted his final three decades to commemorating the Oregon Trail. A part of his story no one has previously told, this volume begins in 1901 and completes an epic biography. One of Washington Territory’s earliest pioneers, Meeker first came west on the overland trail in 1852. He became a Puyallup community builder, agricultural tycoon, and world traveler before hop lice and the Panic of 1893 devoured his fortune. He dallied in mining and joined the Klondike gold rush, spending four years as a Yukon store proprietor. At age 75 he trekked east over the Oregon Trail with oxen and a covered wagon, setting markers along the way, and became a national celebrity. He visited New York, Washington, DC, and the White House, and managed to convince regular citizens, the rich and famous, governors, legislators, and even three U.S. presidents to support his trail preservation schemes. Never one to shy away from adventure, his other exploits included publishing books, lecture tours, additional Oregon Trail expeditions (one in a bi-plane), attending the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, experimenting with motion pictures, founding societies, cruising in what may have been the first motorized RV, performing in a Wild West show, and roaming the country selling commemorative coins. In the end, Meeker’s extraordinary efforts were crucial to saving the trail.
Author : Michael Kammen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307761401
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Mystic Chords of Memory written by Michael Kammen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Scouting written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Annual report of the Boy Scouts of America.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2438 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1933 with total page 2438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 938 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Copyright Entries written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : West Springfield (Mass.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)
Download or read book Account of the Centennial Celebration of the Town of West Springfield, Mass written by West Springfield (Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cleveland Centennial Commission
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Official Report of the Centennial Celebration of the Founding of the City of Cleveland and the Settlement of the Western Reserve written by Cleveland Centennial Commission and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Dary
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307429113
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by David Dary and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Author : Levi Parsons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book 1794-1894, Centennial Celebration, Mt. Morris, N.Y., August 15, 1894 written by Levi Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federal Writers' Project
Publisher : US History Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1603540652
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Oregon Trail: The Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean written by Federal Writers' Project and published by US History Publishers. This book was released on 1972 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Merrill J. Mattes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Fort Laramie Park History, 1834-1977 written by Merrill J. Mattes and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book World's Fair Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
