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Author : George A. Crofutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide ... written by George A. Crofutt and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George A. Crofutt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783337783396
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Crofutt's New Overland Tourist and Pacific Coast Guide written by George A. Crofutt and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-17 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce C. Cooper
Publisher : Polyglot PressInc
ISBN 13 : 9781411599932
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (999 download)
Download or read book Riding the Transcontinental Rails written by Bruce C. Cooper and published by Polyglot PressInc. This book was released on 2004 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 006221831X
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Astoria written by Peter Stark and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Skeletons in the Zahara, Astoria is the thrilling, true-adventure tale of the 1810 Astor Expedition, an epic, now forgotten, three-year journey to forge an American empire on the Pacific Coast. Peter Stark offers a harrowing saga in which a band of explorers battled nature, starvation, and madness to establish the first American settlement in the Pacific Northwest and opened up what would become the Oregon trail, permanently altering the nation's landscape and its global standing. Six years after Lewis and Clark's began their journey to the Pacific Northwest, two of the Eastern establishment's leading figures, John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson, turned their sights to founding a colony akin to Jamestown on the West Coast and transforming the nation into a Pacific trading power. Author and correspondent for Outside magazine Peter Stark recreates this pivotal moment in American history for the first time for modern readers, drawing on original source material to tell the amazing true story of the Astor Expedition. Unfolding over the course of three years, from 1810 to 1813, Astoria is a tale of high adventure and incredible hardship in the wilderness and at sea. Of the more than one hundred-forty members of the two advance parties that reached the West Coast—one crossing the Rockies, the other rounding Cape Horn—nearly half perished by violence. Others went mad. Within one year, the expedition successfully established Fort Astoria, a trading post on the Columbia River. Though the colony would be short-lived, it opened provincial American eyes to the potential of the Western coast and its founders helped blaze the Oregon Trail.
Author : Frank Albert Root
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Overland Stage to California written by Frank Albert Root and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most valuable narratives of the overland stage. As the agent of the postal department, Root oversaw the transportation of the mail over the great stage line ... The narrative is packed with anecdotes and details and is abundantly illustrated"--Bookdealer's description.
Author : Jesse G. Petersen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Route for the Overland Stage written by Jesse G. Petersen and published by . This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1859 exploration of the Great Basin by army topographical engineer James Simpson opened up one of the West's most important transportation and communication corridors, a vital link between the Pacific Coast and the rest of the nation. It became the route of the Pony Express and the Overland Mail and Stage, the line of the Pacific telegraph, a major wagon road for freighters and emigrants, and, later, the first transcontinental auto road, the Lincoln Highway, now Highway 50. No one has accurately tracked or mapped Simpson's original route, until now. Jesse Petersen shows in words, maps, and photos exactly where the explorer went. Sharing his detective-like reasoning as he walked or drove the entire trail west and Simpson's variant route returning east, Petersen takes readers on a mountain and desert trek through some of America's most remote and striking landscapes.
Author : Best Books on
Publisher : Best Books on
ISBN 13 : 1623760658
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail; the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean; written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1939 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: compiled and written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration. Sponsored by Oregon Trail Memorial Association, inc.
Author : Derek Hayes
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781926706597
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book First Crossing written by Derek Hayes and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Crossing recounts an adventure of epic proportions -- in equal parts romantic, historically significant and compelling. It is the story of Canada's most famous explorer, Alexander Mackenzie, who in 1793 became the first person to cross the continent of North America north of Mexico. With a mix of wonderfully readable text, historical and contemporary photographs, and archival maps and illustrations, here is fresh insight into what drove Mackenzie to undertake his dramatic and dangerous quest for the Pacific Ocean, and how his daring secured Canada's legacy.
Author : Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440156220
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Medicine Bow Valley Pioneers written by Frances Elizabeth Strayer-Hanson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEDICINE BOW, WYOMING home of Owen Wister s Virginian. When you call me that, smile. Learn the real history of Medicine Bow and its pioneers. Robbers Roost Ranch home of one of the world s great fossil beds. Discovered in the 1880s and 1890s, archeologists from all over the country came to dig for fossils at Como Bluff near Medicine Bow, Wyo. Fort Halleck, Overland Trail; First Home of John Sublet Jr. Was Wyoming s John Sublet (1840-1928) denied his rightful inheritance to his famous relative s estate, because of his African-American ancestry? Did the hearings on the famous Sublet Will end because a mixed-race man in the wilds of Wyoming was about to prove his relationship to this branch of the Sublet family? Elk Mountain, Wyoming---Home of the renowned GARDEN SPOT PAVILLION with the famous swing and sway dance floor. If you can t dance, hop on and ride! Learn the secret to the famous floor! Dancers from everywhere danced to the music of Harry James, Lawrence Welk, Tommy Dorsey, T. Texas Tyler, and many more famous bands. SADIE S GROVE---Talk of the old days always comes around to Sadie and Sadie s Grove. Learn who she was and why she has become a legend. One of the valley s ghost towns, Carbon, Wyoming was the first coal mine opened in Wyoming by the Union Pacific Railroad. Read about these courageous pioneers and their struggle to make a better life in the prairies and along the river in the Medicine Bow Valley. THE OVERLAND TRAIL; Historians say over 20,000 people a year crossed the Medicine Bow Valley on the Overland Trail. This book has over 1,000 names of people who crossed through or lived in the Medicine Bow Valley. From Hanna, Wyoming come exciting biographies, genealogies, myths, legends, and tales from when Hanna was an infant.
Author : Barry M. Gough
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130026
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (3 download)
Download or read book First Across the Continent written by Barry M. Gough and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the perils and triumphs of the intrepid Scotsman who explored Canada's northwestern wilderness
Author : Randolph Barnes Marcy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Prairie Traveler written by Randolph Barnes Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert Guinness
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925640116
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Overlander written by Rupert Guinness and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful memoir about an epic bike race across one of the most challenging landscapes in the world. Rupert Guinness set out on the trip of a lifetime: to race across Australia in the inaugural Indian Pacific Wheel Race. This would be no ordinary bike race. Unlike the Tour de France, which Guinness made his name reporting on for decades, competitors would ride completely unassisted from Fremantle in Western Australia to the Opera House in Sydney on the other side of the country – a gruelling distance of over 5,000 kilometres that would not only test riders’ physical endurance but their psychological resilience as well. Dubbed ‘The Hunger Games on Wheels’, there would be no help, just riders and their bikes crossing one of the most beautiful – and most inhospitable – places on earth. Rupert’s mission was to test his own grit, physical and emotional, as he followed the trail of the pioneering men and women whose historic rides over the last two centuries unveiled a largely unknown interior. But when a terrible tragedy stopped competitors in their tracks, Rupert was forced to make one of the toughest decisions he had ever faced – and ultimately, what he discovered was the extraordinary power of the human spirit.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142004838
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Sea of Glory written by Nathaniel Philbrick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-10-26 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pacific Educational Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1604532327
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book To the Pacific written by John Hamilton and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the fall of 1805 near Weippe, Idaho, as they travel to Gray's Bay, twenty miles from the Pacific Ocean, and build Fort Clatsop as a winter home. Includes highlights and directions to historical points of interest.
Author : Tim Slessor
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1908493208
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (84 download)
Download or read book First Overland written by Tim Slessor and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why Not? After all, no-one had ever done it before. It would be one of the longest of all overland journeys – half way round the world, from the English Channel to Singapore. They knew that several expeditions had already tried it. Some had got as far as the desrts of Persia; a few had even reached the plains of India. But no one had managed to go on from there: over the jungle clad mountains of Assam and across northern Burma to Thailand and Malaya. Over the last 3,000 miles it seemed there were ‘just too many rivers and too few roads'. But no-one really knew … In fact, their problems began much earlier than that. As mere undergraduates, they had no money, no cars, nothing. But with a cool audacity, which was to become characteristic, they set to work – wheedling and cajoling. First, they coaxed the BBC to come up with some film for a possible TV series. They then gently persuaded the manufacturers to lend them two factory-fresh Land Rovers. A publisher was even sweet-talked into giving them an advance on a book. By the time they were ready to go, their sponsors (more than 80 of them) ranged from whiskey distillers to the makers of collapsible buckets. In late 1955, they set off. Seven months and 12,000 miles later, two very weary Land Rovers, escorted by police outriders, rolled into Singapore – to flash bulbs and champagne. Now, fifty years on, their book, ‘First Overland', is republished – with a foreword by Sir David Attenborough. After all, it was he who gave them that film.
Author : George Monro Grant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book Ocean to Ocean written by George Monro Grant and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
