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Book Synopsis The Brazen Overlanders of 1845 by : Donna Wojcik Montgomery
Download or read book The Brazen Overlanders of 1845 written by Donna Wojcik Montgomery and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845 many people gave up homes, farms, family ties, life-time friends, and close neighbors to make a trek of over 2,000 miles in the face of unknown dangers. Why? They had moved to the area around the Mississippi River and its tributaries to find new farmland and to escape slavery, only to find disease that left many chronically ill, floods that swept away years of hard work, and, during the late 1830s and early 1840s, national monetary problems. These people looked westward again, towards Oregon territory, in 1845. Under President James Polk, land was made available to those who would emigrate to and settle in the territory.
Download or read book The Brazen Overlanders of 1845 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 by : Will Bagley
Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 written by Will Bagley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs-many previously unpublished-accompanied by biographical information and historical background.
Book Synopsis The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 by : Michael L. Tate
Download or read book The Great Medicine Road, Part 1 written by Michael L. Tate and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers’ accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a new series of trail narratives, comprises excerpts from pioneer and missionary letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs—many previously unpublished—accompanied by biographical information and historical background. Beginning with Father Pierre-Jean de Smet’s letters relating his encounters with Plains Indians, and ending with an account of a Mormon gold miner’s journey from California to Salt Lake City, these narratives tell varied and vivid stories. Some travelers fled hard times: religious persecution, the collapse of the agricultural economy, illness, or unpredictable weather. Others looked ahead, attracted by California gold, the verdant Willamette Valley of Oregon, or the prospect of converting Native people to Christianity. Although many welcomed the adventure and adjusted to the rigors of trail life, others complained in their accounts of difficulty adapting. Remembrances of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails have yielded some of the most iconic images in American history. This and forthcoming volumes in The Great Medicine Road series present the pioneer spirit of the original overlanders supported by the rich scholarship of the past century and a half.
Book Synopsis The Meek Cutoff by : Brooks Geer Ragen
Download or read book The Meek Cutoff written by Brooks Geer Ragen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1845, an estimated 2,500 emigrants left Independence and St. Joseph, Missouri, for the Willamette Valley in what was soon to become the Oregon Territory. It was general knowledge that the route of the Oregon Trail through the Blue Mountains and down the Columbia River to The Dalles was grueling and dangerous. About 1,200 men, women, and children in over two hundred wagons accepted fur trapper and guide Stephen Meek's offer to lead them on a shortcut across the trackless high desert of eastern Oregon. Those who followed Meek experienced a terrible ordeal when his memory of the terrain apparently failed. Lost for weeks with little or no water and a shortage of food, the Overlanders encountered deep dust, alkali lakes, and steep, rocky terrain. Many became ill and some died in the forty days it took to travel from the Snake River in present-day Idaho to the Deschutes River near Bend, Oregon. Stories persist that children in the group found gold nuggets in a small, dry creek bed along the way. From 2006 to 2011, Brooks Ragan and a team of specialists in history, geology, global positioning, metal detecting, and aerial photography spent weeks every spring and summer tracing the Meek Cutoff. They located wagon ruts, gravesites, and other physical evidence from the most difficult part of the trail, from Vale, Oregon, to the upper reaches of the Crooked River and to a location near Redmond where a section of the train reached the Deschutes. The Meek Cutoff moves readers back and forth in time, using surviving journals from members of the 1845 party, detailed day-to-day maps, aerial photographs, and descriptions of the modern-day exploration to document an extraordinary story of the Oregon Trail.
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the writings and recollections of thirteen Anglo women who traveled to the American West in the 1840s, taken from their letters and diaries, and reflecting the political, social, and economic forces of the era.
Book Synopsis A Heart for Any Fate by : Linda Crew
Download or read book A Heart for Any Fate written by Linda Crew and published by Ooligan Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovisa King, 17, comes of age on the Oregon Trail and finds the strength to help her family survive a deadly shortcut on their journey to the Willamette Valley.
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).
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 1 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.
Book Synopsis Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 by : Kenneth L. Holmes
Download or read book Covered Wagon Women, Volume 11 written by Kenneth L. Holmes and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories seem simple?they left, they traveled, they settled?yet the restless westering impulse of Americans created one of the most enduring figures in our frontier pantheon: theøhardy pioneer persevering against all odds. Undeterred by storms, ruthless bandits, towering mountains, and raging epidemics, the women in these volumes suggest why the pioneer represented the highest ideals and aspirations of a young nation. In this concluding volume of the Covered Wagon Women series, we see the final animal-powered overland migrations that were even then yielding to railroad travel and, in a few short years, to the automobile. The diaries and letters resonate with the vigor and spirit that made possible the settling and community-building of the American West.
Book Synopsis A Light in the Wilderness by : Jane Kirkpatrick
Download or read book A Light in the Wilderness written by Jane Kirkpatrick and published by Revell. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letitia holds nothing more dear than the papers that prove she is no longer a slave. They may not cause white folks to treat her like a human being, but at least they show she is free. She trusts in those words she cannot read--as she is beginning to trust in Davey Carson, an Irish immigrant cattleman who wants her to come west with him. Nancy Hawkins is loathe to leave her settled life for the treacherous journey by wagon train, but she is so deeply in love with her husband that she knows she will follow him anywhere--even when the trek exacts a terrible cost. Betsy is a Kalapuya Indian, the last remnant of a once proud tribe in the Willamette Valley in Oregon territory. She spends her time trying to impart the wisdom and ways of her people to her grandson. But she will soon have another person to care for. As season turns to season, suspicion turns to friendship, and fear turns to courage, three spirited women will discover what it means to be truly free in a land that makes promises it cannot fulfill. This multilayered story from bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick will grip readers' hearts and minds as they travel with Letitia on the dusty and dangerous Oregon trail into the boundless American West.
Download or read book Pioneer Mother written by Hillary Brown and published by Hillary Brown. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life and times of Esther Clark Short.
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:
Book Synopsis From the Potomac to the Columbia by : Patricia Hewitt Morrison
Download or read book From the Potomac to the Columbia written by Patricia Hewitt Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Camby was born May 4, 1762 probably in Virginia and died April 11, 1858 reportedly in Clinton Co., Indiana. The name of his first wife and their marriage date are unknown. He married Mary Prather (b. ca. 1792-d. ca. 1830/3) in the late 1790's. He married thirdly Rebecca Ingersoll, a widow, October 27, 1833. His fourth marriage was to Nancy Devoss (b. ca 1792-d. aft. 1860) on April 9, 1837. Descendants live in Ohio, Indiana, California, Idaho, Illinois, Washington, Virginia, West Virginia and elsewhere. Includes Cambe, Camby, Courtney, Hewitt, Stewart, Young and related families.
Download or read book Prairie Roots written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tracking Down Coyote written by Mike Helm and published by Rainy Day Publishing Incorporated. This book was released on 1990 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of the author's travels in the eastern Oregon desert, with related frontier history and native American mythology; author's stated intent is to raise awareness of present environmental threat to this high desert country.
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Download or read book Genealogical & Local History Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous editions titled: Genealogical books in print
