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Book Synopsis Midwest Frontier Stories by : Ed Scharff
Download or read book Midwest Frontier Stories written by Ed Scharff and published by Floyd E Scharff. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Treasury of FIRST HAND stories written by the MIDWEST FRONTIER PIONEERS of 1815-1845 in Wisconsin Territory and Iowa Territory will bring HISTORY TO LIFE. Stories about Pioneer Life, Settlers and Native American Indians. Genealogical Information on many settlers.
Book Synopsis Midwest Frontier Stories -2: Collection 2 by : Ed Scharff
Download or read book Midwest Frontier Stories -2: Collection 2 written by Ed Scharff and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Short Stories - The Beginning of IOWA. An Informative Treasury of first hand short stories in original wording by Midwest Frontier Settlers of the Midwest (Primarily SE Iowa and NE Missouri) during the period of 1815-1845 (2nd collection.) Not a thrilling novel, nor an action packed Western; rather it is where you can hear directly from the Frontier Pioneers of the Midwest. This treasury of stories will bring HISTORY TO LIFE and give interesting and fun revelations. Over 200 frontiersmen and settlers are mentioned in these stories: Peter Pierre's Great Race, John Jasper (Red John) Collard, Early Settlements, Crittington Forquerean, Iowa Missouri Border Issue, Common Little Indian Fight, William Bedell - the First Settler, First Sermon in the Elm Bottom, First Settlers in the Elm Bottom, First Jury Trial on Elm Bottom, First Wedding in Elm Bottom, Isaac Gray, Trip Down the Wabash and Mississippi, Boating on the Des Moines, Early Times in Iowa, She Shot, Burris City, Early Days in Iowa, William Clark, George Jones, Death of Clark Meeker, J C Parrott - Sixty Two Years, A Lee County Pioneer- J.W. Campbell, Alexander Cruikshank, Serious Accident to Keokuk, Black Hawk Dancing, The Half Breed Tract AND THE HALF BREED TRACT Conspiracy.
Book Synopsis Midwest Frontier Stories by : Ed Scharff
Download or read book Midwest Frontier Stories written by Ed Scharff and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical Short Stories written by the Frontiersmen - The Beginning of IOWA. A Fun and Informative Treasury of first hand short stories in original wording by Midwest Frontier Settlers of the Midwest (Primarily SE Iowa Des Moines River Valley) during the period of 1815-1845. Stories include: Lee Country, HARRISON TOWNSHIP; Squatters and Speculators at the first land sales; Old Times Hereabouts; Recollections of Thirty-four Years ago(1836); On the Wing; The "Tall Cedar" in close quarters; A Letter from an Old Settler; Pioneer Courts; William Hillhouse; Western Towns-Keokuk; Items of History; An Old Settler's Record; Pen Pictures of the Old Settlers of Van Buren County; J.C. Parrot's Address; Address of Judge C.F. Davis; CA Gold Trip, ABIATHA B. WILLIAMS; Dr Cresap; A Stirring Recollection(Meeting Black Hawk in 1831); Lee County gazetted; PASH-A-BA-HO(Stabbing Chief); The Early Settlement of Lee County; Pioneer Incidents; Pioneer Times; Keokuk's Letter to the President; The Farewell of Chief Keokuk; An Old Settler's Reminiscences; Hon. T.S. Parvin; Keokuk's Final Speech of 1838; A Weird Historical Scrap; Famous Iowa Pioneers; and more 1836 Sweet Home Ledger entries.
Book Synopsis Frontier Illinois by : James E. Davis
Download or read book Frontier Illinois written by James E. Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major new history of the making of the state, Davis tells a sweeping story of Illinois, from the Ice Age to the eve of the Civil War.
Book Synopsis Frontier Indiana by : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Download or read book Frontier Indiana written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-22 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most history concentrates on the broad sweep of events, battles and political decisions, economic advance or decline, landmark issues and events, and the people who lived and made these events tend to be lost in the big picture. Cayton's lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Jean-Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes; George Croghan, the ultimate frontier entrepreneur; the world as seen by George Rogers Clark; Josiah Hamar and John Francis Hamtramck; Little Turtle; Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison and William Henry Harrison; Tenskwatawa; Jonathan Jennings; Calvin Fletcher; and many others. Focusing his account on these and other representative individuals, Cayton retells the story of Indiana's settlement in a human and compelling narrative which makes the experience of exploration and settlement real and exciting. Here is a book that will appeal to the general reader and scholar alike while going a long way to reinfusing our understanding of history and the historical process with the breath of life itself.
Book Synopsis The American Midwest by : Andrew R. L. Cayton
Download or read book The American Midwest written by Andrew R. L. Cayton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-28 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American MidwestEssays on Regional History Edited by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray Is there a Midwest regional identity? Read this lively exploration of the Midwestern identity crisis and find out. "Many would say that ordinariness is the Midwest's 'historic burden.' A writer living in Dayton, Ohio recently suggested that dullness is a Midwestern trait. The Midwest lacks grand scenery: 'Just cornfields, silos, prairies, and the occasional hill. Dull.' He tries to put a nice face on Midwestern dullness by saying that Midwesterners '[l]ike Shaker furniture... are plain in the best sense: unadorned.' Others have found Midwestern ordinariness stultifying. Neil LaBute, who makes films about mean and nasty people, said he was negative because he came from Indiana: 'We're brutally honest in Indiana. We realize we're in the middle of nowhere, and we're very sore about it.'" -- from Chapter Five, "Barbecued Kentuckians and Six-Foot Texas Rangers," by Nicole Etcheson. In a series of often highly personal essays, the authors of The American Midwest -- all of whom are experts on various aspects of Midwestern history -- consider the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about the history of the American Midwest. They begin with the assumption that Midwesterners have never been as consciously regional as Western or Southern Americans. They note the peculiar absence of the Midwest from the recent revival of interest in American regionalism among both scholars and journalists. These lively and well-written chapters draw on personal experiences as well as a wide variety of scholarship. This book will stimulate readers into thinking more concretely about what it has meant to be from the Midwest -- and why Midwesterners have traditionally been less assertive about their regional identity than other Americans. It suggests that the best place to find Midwesternness is in the stories the residents of the region have told about themselves and each other. Being Midwestern is mostly a state of mind. It is always fluid, always contested, always being renegotiated. Even the most frequent objection to the existence of Midwestern identity, the fact that no one can agree on its borders, is part of a larger regional conversation about the ways in which Midwesterners imagine themselves and their relationships with other Americans. Andrew R. L. Cayton, Distinguished Professor of History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, is author of numerous books and articles dealing with the history of the Midwest, including Frontier Indiana (Indiana University Press) and (with Peter S. Onuf) The Midwest and the Nation. Susan E. Gray, Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, is author of Yankee West: Community Life on the Michigan Frontier as well as numerous articles about Midwest history. Midwestern History and CultureJames H. Madison and Andrew R. L. Cayton, editors July 2001256 pages, 6 1/8 x 9 1/4, index, append.cloth 0-253-33941-3 $35.00 s / £26.50 Contents The Story of the Midwest: An Introduction Seeing the Midwest with Peripheral Vision: Identities, Narratives, and Region Liberating Contrivances: Narrative and Identity in Ohio Valley Histories Pigs in Space, or What Shapes American Regional Cultures? Barbecued Kentuckians and Six-Foot Texas Rangers: The Construction of Midwestern Identity Pi-ing the Type: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the Contest of Midwestern Regionality "The Great Body of the Republic": Abraham Lincoln and the Idea of a Middle West Stories Written in the Blood: Race, Identity, and the Middle West The Anti-region: Place and Identity in the History of the American Middle West Midwestern Distinctiveness Middleness and the Middle West
Book Synopsis Beyond the Frontier by : David S. Brown
Download or read book Beyond the Frontier written by David S. Brown and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world went to war in 1941, Time magazine founder Henry Luce coined a term for what was rapidly becoming the establishment view of America's role in the world; the twentieth century, he argued, was the American Century. Many of the nation's most eminent historians - nearly all of them from the East Coast - agreed with this vision and its e...
Book Synopsis The Prairie Schooner by : William Francis Hooker
Download or read book The Prairie Schooner written by William Francis Hooker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book documents the social history of the USA pioneers at the time of the colonization of the Wild West. Parsons writes that, at the time he is writing about, the Wild West really WAS wild. There had been little change to the wild landscape and barren lands, which at that time were roamed by American Indian tribes. His book is a personal history of the times he lived through.
Download or read book Elfie written by Mary Nelson Keithahn and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the memoirs of Elfie May Loverin Minard and Frank Clyde Sheldon, Elfie's ''Double Cousin,'' Mary Nelson Keithahn's new book, ''Elfie: Adventures on the Midwest Frontier'' chronicles Elfie's story as she and her family settle in the Midwest.
Book Synopsis Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier by : Patrick J. Mahoney
Download or read book Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier written by Patrick J. Mahoney and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recovering an Irish Voice from the American Frontier is a bilingual compilation of stories by Eoin Ua Cathail, an Irish emigrant, based loosely on his experiences in the West and Midwest. The author draws on the popular American Dime Novel genre throughout to offer unique reflections on nineteenth-century American life. As a member of a government mule train accompanying the U.S. military during the Plains Indian Wars, Ua Cathail depicts fierce encounters with Native American tribes, while also subtly commenting on the hypocrisy of many famine-era Irish immigrants who failed to recognize the parallels between their own plight and that of dispossessed Native peoples. These views are further challenged by his stories set in the upper Midwest. His writings are marked by the eccentricities and bloated claims characteristic of much American Western literature of the time, while also offering valuable transnational insights into Irish myth, history, and the Gaelic Revival movement. This bilingual volume, with facing Irish-English pages, marks the first publication of Ua Cathail’s work in both the original Irish and in translation. It also includes a foreword from historian Richard White, a comprehensive introduction by Mahoney, and a host of previously unpublished historical images. “Ua Cathail’s Irish-language tales anticipate Twain and Hemingway in a multicultural world of settlers, shysters, and simple idealists still confronted by the challenge of Native Americans.”—Declan Kiberd, author of Inventing Ireland: The Literature of a Modern Nation
Download or read book Frontier Stories written by Bret Harte and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Frontier Stories" by Bret Harte Bret Harte was an American short story writer and poet best remembered for short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. This book showcases his propensity for the frontier by showcasing multiple short stories that have settlers as main characters. Flip: A California Romance, Found at Blazing Star, In the Carquinez Woods, At the Mission of San Carmel, A Blue-Grass Penelope, Left out on Lone Star Mountain, and A Ship of '40 are the tales in this collection.
Book Synopsis The Frontier in American History by : Frederick Jackson Turner
Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Frontier in American History is a collection of works related to the history of American colonization of Wild West. Turner expresses his views on how the idea of the frontier shaped the American being and characteristics. He writes how the frontier drove American history and why America is what it is today. Turner reflects on the past to illustrate his point by noting human fascination with the frontier and how expansion to the American West changed people's views on their culture. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ The Significance of the Frontier in American History_x000D_ The First Official Frontier of the Massachusetts Bay_x000D_ The Old West_x000D_ The Middle West_x000D_ The Ohio Valley in American History_x000D_ The Significance of the Mississippi Valley in American History_x000D_ The Problem of the West_x000D_ Dominant Forces in Western Life_x000D_ Contributions of the West to American Democracy_x000D_ Pioneer Ideals and the State University_x000D_ The West and American Ideals_x000D_ Social Forces in American History_x000D_ Middle Western Pioneer Democracy
Book Synopsis The Wisconsin Frontier by : Mark Wyman
Download or read book The Wisconsin Frontier written by Mark Wyman and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From French coureurs de bois coursing through its waterways in the seventeenth century to the lumberjacks who rode logs down those same rivers in the late nineteenth century, settlers came to Wisconsin's frontier seeking wealth and opportunity. Indians mixed with these newcomers, sometimes helping and sometimes challenging them, often benefiting from their guns, pots, blankets, and other trade items. The settlers' frontier produced a state with enormous ethnic variety, but its unruliness worried distant governmental and religious authorities, who soon dispatched officials and missionaries to help guide the new settlements. By 1900 an era was rapidly passing, leaving Wisconsin's peoples with traditions of optimism and self-government, but confronting them also with tangled cutover lands and game scarcities that were a legacy of the settlers' belief in the inexhaustible resources of the frontier.
Download or read book Frontier Stories written by Cy Warman and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Midwest in Film and Literature by : Adam R. Ochonicky
Download or read book The American Midwest in Film and Literature written by Adam R. Ochonicky and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do works from film and literature—Sister Carrie, Native Son, Meet Me in St. Louis, Halloween, and A History of Violence, for example—imagine, reify, and reproduce Midwestern identity? And what are the repercussions of such regional narratives and images circulating in American culture? In The American Midwest in Film and Literature: Nostalgia, Violence, and Regionalism, Adam R. Ochonicky provides a critical overview of the evolution, contestation, and fragmentation of the Midwest's symbolic and often contradictory meanings. Using the frontier writings of Frederick Jackson Turner as a starting point, this book establishes a succession of Midwestern filmic and literary texts stretching from the late-19th century through the beginning of the 21st century and argues that the manifold properties of nostalgia have continually transformed popular understandings and ideological uses of the Midwest's place-identity. Ochonicky identifies three primary modes of nostalgia at play across a set of textual objects: the projection of nostalgia onto physical landscapes and into the cultural sphere (nostalgic spatiality); nostalgia as a cultural force that regulates behaviors, identities, and appearances (nostalgic violence); and the progressive potential of nostalgia to generate an acknowledgment and possible rectification of ways in which the flawed past negatively affects the present (nostalgic atonement). While developing these new conceptions of nostalgia, Ochonicky reveals how an under-examined area of regional study has received critical attention throughout the histories of American film and literature, as well as in related materials and discourses. From the closing of the Western frontier to the polarized political and cultural climate of the 21st century, this book demonstrates how film and literature have been and continue to be vital forums for illuminating the complex interplay of regionalism and nostalgia.
Download or read book Frontier Grit written by Marianne Monson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. The author ties the stories of these pioneer women to the experiences of women today with the hope that they will be inspired to live boldly and bravely and to fill their own lives with vision, faith, and fortitude. To live with grit.
Book Synopsis Women's Voices from the Western Frontier by : Susan G. Butruille
Download or read book Women's Voices from the Western Frontier written by Susan G. Butruille and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Voices from the Western Frontier continues the evocative tone of the author's previous book, Women's Voices from the Oregon Trail. Sweeping yet intimate, Susan G. Butruille's book gives voice to the women of the many western frontiers through their journals, stories, songs & recipes. Here are strung-together moments of everydayness, punctuated by a Pueblo woman's corn grinding song, a Hispanic wedding feast & horseback rides across the prairie, hair flying free.
