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Publisher : Reprint Services Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0781264421
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)
Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 Volume 9 ~ Paperbound written by and published by Reprint Services Corporation. This book was released on with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin James
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ISBN 13 : 3752409231
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV written by Edwin James and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Early Western Travels 1748-1846, Volume XIV by Edwin James
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
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Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Early Western Travels, 1748-1846 written by Reuben Gold Thwaites and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James R. Atkinson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817350330
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Splendid Land, Splendid People written by James R. Atkinson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough examination of the Chickasaw Indians, tracing their history as far back as the documentation and archeological record will allow Before the Chickasaws were removed to lands in Oklahoma in the 1800s, the heart of the Chickasaw Nation was located east of the Mississippi River in the upper watershed of the Tombigbee River in what is today northeastern Mississippi. Their lands had been called "splendid and fertile" by French governor Bienville at the time they were being coveted by early European settlers. The people were also termed “splendid” and described by documents of the 1700s as “tall, well made, and of an unparalleled courage. . . . The men have regular features, well-shaped and neatly dressed; they are fierce, and have a high opinion of themselves.” The progenitors of the sociopolitical entity termed by European chroniclers progressively as Chicasa, Chicaca, Chicacha, Chicasaws, and finally Chickasaw may have migrated from west of the Mississippi River in prehistoric times. Or migrating people may have joined indigenous populations. Despite this longevity in their ancestral lands, the Chickasaw were the only one of the original "five civilized tribes" to leave no remnant community in the Southeast at the time of removal. Atkinson thoroughly researches the Chickasaw Indians, tracing their history as far back as the documentation and archaeological record will allow. He historicizes from a Native viewpoint and outlines political events leading to removal, while addressing important issues such as slave-holding among Chickasaws, involvement of Chickasaw and neighboring Indian tribes in the American Revolution, and the lives of Chickasaw women. Splendid Land, Splendid People will become a fundamental resource for current information and further research on the Chickasaw. A wide audience of librarians, anthropologists, historians, and general readers have long awaited publication of this important volume.
Author : Lake Douglas
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807138371
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Public Spaces, Private Gardens written by Lake Douglas and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape architect Lake Douglas employs written accounts, archival data, historic photographs, lithographs, maps, and city planning documents -- many of which have never before been published -- to explore public and private outdoor spaces in New Orleans and those who shaped them. The result offers the first in-depth examination of the city's landscape history. Douglas presents this "beautiful and imposing" city as a work of art crafted by numerous influences. His survey from the colonial period to the twentieth century finds that geography, climate, and, above all, the multicultural character of its residents have made New Orleans unique in American landscape design history. French and Spanish settlers, Africans and Native Americans, as well as immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Italy, and other parts of the world all participated in creating this community's unique public and private landscapes. Places such as Congo Square, Audubon Park, the river levees, and "neutral grounds" -- local residents' own term for medians -- together with ordinary residential gardens are all testaments to the city's international imprint. Douglas identifies five types of public and private designed landscapes in New Orleans: squares, linear open spaces, urban parks, commercial pleasure gardens, and domestic gardens. Discussing their design, function, and content, he shows how specific examples of each contribute to the city's unique character and also fit within the larger context of American landscape design history. Each type has its own complexion and reflects the influence of those who occupied it. Though New Orleanians lived in strata according to language, cultural identity, economics, and race, they found common ground, literally, in their community's landscapes. Douglas's sweeping study, illustrated with over 90 color and black-and-white images, includes an exploration of archival horticultural books, almanacs, and periodicals; information about laborers who actually built landscapes; details of horticultural commerce, services, and marketing materials; and an exhaustive inventory of plants grown in New Orleans for agricultural, medicinal, and ornamental uses. Public Spaces, Private Gardens provides an informative look at two hundred years of the designed landscapes and horticulture of New Orleans and a fresh perspective on one of America's most interesting and historic cities.
Author : Gary A. O'Dell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813196736
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Bluegrass Paradise written by Gary A. O'Dell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the earliest days of the United States as settlers made their way west and into what would eventually become Kentucky, they were faced with many challenges in the task of surveying and claiming new and unknown land. Among the highest priorities for new residents was to determine if their chosen homestead could provide the fertile soil and fresh water they needed to sustain life and service their agricultural needs. Kentucky, with its underlying base of predominantly limestone rock—perfectly suited to the natural formation of caves, sinking streams, and springs of cool water—proved the ideal location on which to build their new lives. In Bluegrass Paradise: Royal Spring and the Birth of Georgetown, Kentucky, author Gary A. O'Dell tells the story of the Royal Spring, the largest spring in central Kentucky. Practical and essential to the creation of a successful settlement, the spring and its location became the primary reason pioneers would eventually congregate here and found the city of Georgetown as one of the earliest Kentucky communities. In the ensuing 250 years, the Royal Spring has faithfully served the water needs of the community and the locale remains a cherished cultural and historical asset that provides greenspace within a rapidly growing city.
Author : Rowland Willard
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153288
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Over the Santa Fe Trail to Mexico written by Rowland Willard and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the first Anglo-Americans to record their travels to New Mexico, Dr. Rowland Willard (1794–1884) journeyed west on the Santa Fe Trail in 1825 and then down the Camino Real into Mexico, taking notes along the way. This edition of the young physician’s travel diaries and subsequent autobiography, annotated by New Mexico Deputy State Librarian Joy L. Poole, is a rich historical source on the two trails and the practice of medicine in the 1820s. Few Americans knew much about New Mexico when Willard set out on his journey from St. Charles, Missouri, where he had recently completed a medical apprenticeship. The growing commerce with the Southwest presented opportunities for the ambitious doctor. On his first day travelling the plains of the Santa Fe Trail, he met the mountain man Hugh Glass, who regaled Willard with stories of his wilderness experiences. Conducting a physical examination of Glass, Dr. Willard provided the only eye witness medical account of Glass’s deformities resulting from a grizzly bear attack. Willard referred to the mountain man as Father Glass, a testimony to his age. He visited Santa Fe, practiced medicine in Taos, then traveled south to Chihuahua, arriving during a measles epidemic. Willard treated patients in Mexico for two years before returning to Missouri in 1828. Willard’s narrative challenges long-accepted assumptions about the exact routes taken by pack trains on the Santa Fe Trail. It also provides thrilling glimpses of a landscape densely populated with wildlife. The doctor describes “a great theater of nature,” with droves of elk and buffalo, and “wolf and antelope skipping in every direction.” With his traveling companions he hunted buffalo by crawling after them on all fours, afterward making jerky out of bison meat and boats out of their hides. Willard also details his medical practice, offering a revealing view of physicians’ operating practices in a time when sanitation and anesthesia were rare. The Santa Fe Trail and Camino Real took Willard on the journey of a lifetime. This account recalls the early days of the Santa Fe Trail trade and westward American migration, when a doctor from Missouri could cross paths with mountain men, traders, Mexican clergymen, and government officials on their way to new opportunities.
Author : Henry Atkinson
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780917298691
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (986 download)
Download or read book Wheel Boats on the Missouri written by Henry Atkinson and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2001 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1824 Brig. Gen. Henry Atkinson and Indian Agent Benjamin O'Fallon traveled up the Missouri River, along with 475 soldiers of the First and Sixth Infantry regiments. Their mission: to negotiate peace treaties with tribes along the Missouri River, and to secure their promise to trade exclusively with American citizens. It was hoped this combination of military power and proffered friendship would put an end to Indian attacks on American fur trappers and traders. The full record of this early military expedition is now available. The diaries of General Atkinson and Maj. Stephen Watts Kearny describe the trip from St. Louis to Fort Atkinson in the fall of 1824, the expedition from the fort to the Yellowstone River and back in 1825, and the return of a portion of the troops to St. Louis in 1826, while the diary of Angus Lewis Langham, the expedition's secretary, describes the passage of the wheel boat Antelope from St. Louis to Fort Atkinson in early spring of 1825. This fully annotated volume also includes a discussion of the early use of the wheel boat to travel the Missouri and the expedition's financial records.
Author : Virginia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia. Library Board
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia. Library Board and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Report of the State Librarian written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Virginia State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the Virginia State Library written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports.
Author : Virginia State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Library Board to the Virginai State Library to which is Appended the Annual Report of the State Librarian written by Virginia State Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports
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Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Annual Report of the Library Board of the Virginia State Library to which is Appended the Annual Report of the State Librarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Raymond Wood
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806136899
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Prologue to Lewis and Clark written by W. Raymond Wood and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “To follow the journeys made by Mackay and Evans up the Missouri and across the plains in 1795–97 is to begin to appreciate the kind of world Lewis and Clark found when they voyaged up the river in 1804. . . . Of all those waterways, none has captured the American imagination more than the Missouri. . . . It is a river of promise, of dreams, and of dreams denied.” –James P. Ronda, from the Foreword When Mackay and Evans returned to Spanish St. Louis in 1797, they were hailed as “the two most illustrious travelers in the northern parts of this continent.” Ironically, though the findings of Mackay and Evans were responsible for much of the early success of Lewis and Clark in their expedition, the adulation that followed Lewis and Clark’s successful return completely eclipsed Mackay and Evans’s reputations. In Prologue to Lewis and Clark, W. Raymond Wood narrates the history of this long-forgotten but important expedition up the Missouri River. The Mackay and Evans expedition was more than an exploratory mission. It was the last effort by Spain to gain control over the Missouri River basin in the decade before the United States purchased the Louisiana territory. In that respect, it failed. But the expedition was successful as a journey of exploration. The maps and documents they created later provided the Lewis and Clark expedition with invaluable information for its first full year. Consolidating a collection of eighteen contemporary documents relating to the Mackay and Evans expedition as well as his own research and analysis, Wood provides an in-depth examination of the expedition’s background, execution, and final results. Volume 79 in the American Exploration and Travel Series
Author : John Canfield Ewers
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129433
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (294 download)
Download or read book Plains Indian History and Culture written by John Canfield Ewers and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plains Indian History and Culture, an engaging collection of articles and essays, reflects John C. Ewers multifaceted approach to Indian history, an approach that combines his far-reaching interest in American history generally, his professional training in anthropology, and his many decades of experience as a field-worker and museum curator. The author has drawn on interviews collected during a quarter-century of fieldwork with Indian elders, who in recalling their own experiences during the buffalo days, revealed unique insights into Plains Indian life. Ewers use his expertise in examining Indian-made artifacts and drawings as well as photographs taken by non-Indian artists who had firsthand contact with Indians. He throws new light on important changes in Plains Indian culture, on the history of intertribal relations, and on Indian relation with whites—traders, missionaries, soldiers, settlers, and the U.S. Government.
Author : Karl Raitz
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813136644
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Kentucky's Frontier Highway written by Karl Raitz and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Kentucky beckoned to hunters, surveyors, and settlers from the mid-Atlantic coast colonies as a source of game, land, and new trade opportunities. Unfortunately, the Appalachian Mountains formed a daunting barrier that left only two primary roads to this fertile Eden. The steep grades and dense forests of the Cumberland Gap rendered the Wilderness Road impassable to wagons, and the northern route extending from southeastern Pennsylvania became the first main thoroughfare to the rugged West, winding along the Ohio River and linking Maysville to Lexington in the heart of the Bluegrass. Kentucky's Frontier Highway reveals the astounding history of the Maysville Road, a route that served as a theater of local settlement, an engine of economic development, a symbol of the national political process, and an essential part of the Underground Railroad. Authors Karl Raitz and Nancy O'Malley chart its transformation from an ancient footpath used by Native Americans and early settlers to a central highway, examining the effect that its development had on the evolution of transportation technology as well as the usage and abandonment of other thoroughfares, and illustrating how this historic road shaped the wider American landscape.
