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Author : Stephen Hall Meek
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258923570
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (235 download)
Download or read book The Autobiography of a Mountain Man, 1805-1889 written by Stephen Hall Meek and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1948 edition.
Author : Mike Stamm
Publisher : Medicine Wolf Press
ISBN 13 : 9780964066847
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (668 download)
Download or read book HorseMuleGrizzlyIndianBuffalo Wrecks of the Frontier West written by Mike Stamm and published by Medicine Wolf Press. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Stine
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806153148
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Way Across the Mountain written by Scott Stine and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year’s provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker brigade crossed the Sierra Nevada, becoming the first non-Native people to traverse the range from east to west. That crossing, made long and brutal by bewildering terrain and deep snow, is widely and rightly considered a milestone in the exploration of intermontane North America. Following Walker’s death in 1876, an alluring tale arose concerning his trans-Sierran route. In the course of the crossing, goes the story, Walker found himself on the northern rim of Yosemite Valley at the plungepoint of North America’s tallest waterfall, staring into the most awesome mountain chasm on the continent. Over the decades since then, this time-honored tale has hardened to folklore. Dozens of historical works have construed it as a towering moment in the opening of the West. But in fact this tale of Yosemite’s discovery has no basis or support in firsthand accounts of the 1833 Sierran crossing. Moreover, there is much in those accounts that contradicts Yosemite lore, and much that points to a trans-Sierran route well north of Yosemite Valley. In A Way Across the Mountain, Scott Stine reconstructs Walker’s 1833 route over the Sierra. Stine draws on his own intimate knowledge of the geomorphology, hydrography, biogeography, and climate of the Sierra Nevada and Great Basin, and employs the detailed travel narrative of the Walker brigade’s field clerk, Zenas Leonard. Stine documents the inception, growth, and persistence of the Yosemite Myth and explores the extent to which that lore has overshadowed Walker’s greatest discovery—that the huge swath of continent between the Wasatch Front and the Sierran crest is hydrographically closed, draining not to an ocean, but to salty lakes and desert sands.
Author : Ralph Adam Smith
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806130415
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Borderlander written by Ralph Adam Smith and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the 1920s, American historians have presented Kirker only in the worst of terms. Smith, however, demonstrates that Kirker's white contemporaries judged him a hero. At a time when evolving politics led to new methods of warfare - when desperate people resorted to desperate measures - his deeds earned him a reputation for bravery and good citizenship."--BOOK JACKET. "Whether Kirker is judged a villain or a hero, or merely a scoundrel, his colorful life reflected the turbulence of his times."--Jacket.
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1627798838
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)
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.
Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803272187
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Trappers of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1800s vast fortunes were made in the international fur trade, an enterprise founded upon the effort of a few hundred trappers scattered across the American West. From their ranks came men who still command respect for their daring, skill, and resourcefulness. This volume brings together brief biographies of seventeen leaders of the western fur trade, selected from essays assembled by LeRoy R. Hafen in The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West (ten volumes, 1965–72). The subjects and authors are: Etienne Provost (LeRoy R. Hafen); James Ohio Pattie (Ann W. Hafen); Louis Robidoux (David J. Weber); Ewing Young (Harvey L. Carter); David F. Jackson (Carl D. W Hays); Milton G. Sublette (Doyce B. Nunis, Jr.); Lucien Fontenelle (Alan C. Trottman); James Clyman (Charles L. Camp); James P. Beckwourth (Delmot R. Oswald); Edward and Francis Ermatinger (Harriet D. Munnick); John Gantt (Harvey L. Carter); William W. Bent (Samuel P. Arnold); Charles Autobees (Janet Lecompte); Warren Angus Ferris (Lyman C. Pederson, Jr.); Manuel Alvarez (Harold H. Dunham); and Robert Campbell (Harvey L. Carter). Trappers of the Far West is the companion to Mountain Men and Fur Traders of the Far West.
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803295643
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (956 download)
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.
Author : Francis Parkman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803287396
Total Pages : 878 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The Oregon Trail written by Francis Parkman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that would ultimately take him over two thousand miles. Map.
Author : LeRoy Reuben Hafen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West written by LeRoy Reuben Hafen and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Gowans
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 9781423610687
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Rendezvous written by Fred Gowans and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An excellent guide for mountain-man enthusiasts and an intriguing exploration of the West, Rocky Mountain Rendezvous focuses on the fur-trading rendezvous that took place from 1825-1840 in the Central Rocky Mountains. Originally commercial gatherings where furs were traded for necessities such as traps, guns, horses, and other supplies, they evolved into rich social events that were pivotal in shaping the early American West.
Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
ISBN 13 : 1680516434
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Last Empty Places written by Peter Stark and published by Mountaineers Books. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ". . . intriguing, both a solid refresher on our savage colonial history and a smart rumination on what it means to get lost. ― Outside First time in paperback, ebook, and audio editions Part travel adventure, part history, part exploration Features four specific "blank spots" from across the country and delves into our human relationships with place In The Last Empty Places, bestselling author Peter Stark takes the reader to four of the most remote, wild, and unpopulated areas of the United States outside of Alaska and mainly not part of protected wilderness: the rivers and forests of Northern Maine; the rugged, unpopulated region of Western Pennsylvania that lies only a short distance from the East’s big cities; the haunting canyons of Central New Mexico; and the vast, arid basins of Southeast Oregon. Stark discovers that the places he visits are only "blank" in terms of a lack of recorded history. In fact, each place holds layers of history, meaning, and intrinsic value and is far from being blank. He also finds that each region has played an important role in shaping our American idea of wilderness through the influential "natural philosophers" who visited these places and wrote about their experiences--Henry David Thoreau, William Bartram, John Muir, and Aldo Leopold. It’s a fascinating look at the value of nature, the ways humans use and approach it, and what it means to seek out empty places in today’s world.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1048 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
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Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835216036
Total Pages : 1826 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Biographical Books, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.
Author : California State Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book News Notes of California Libraries written by California State Library and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.
Author : Historical Society of Southern California
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Topical Index of All Published Works written by Historical Society of Southern California and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles A. Webbert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Idaho Local History written by Charles A. Webbert and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Keith Clark
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Terrible Trail written by Keith Clark and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
