Author: P.H. Hassrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Tracey Baptiste
Publisher: Children's Press
ISBN: 9780531232156
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"During the 1800s, many settlers moved westward across North America to seek their fortunes as farmers, ranchers, and miners. In the Wild West, there were few towns and few people paid much attention to laws. Readers will take a trip through this thrilling period of American history as they join Louise and Nat for a tale of cowboys in a frontier town. They will find out how people lived, worked, and traveled in the Wild West, and much more."--Publisher's description.

Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300042634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Follows the development of a rural Illinois community from its origins near the beginning of the nineteenth century, looks at community activity, and tells the stories of ordinary pioneers

Author: Earl Spencer Pomeroy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300158526
Category : Pacific and Mountain States
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"A leading western specialist argues that the history of the American West did not end in the year 1900 and was shaped as much by events and innovations in the twentieth century, in a study that describes a modern West." -- annotation from Book Index with Reviews.

Author: Hampton Sides
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307387674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.

Author: Elliott West
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.

Author: Brenda C. Calloway
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
ISBN: 9780932807342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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Concentrating primarily within the period of 1600–1839, this narrative describes the first "Old West"—the land just beyond the crest of the Appalachian Mountains—and the many firsts that occurred there.

Author: H. W. Brands
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 1541672534
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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"Epic in its scale, fearless in its scope" (Hampton Sides), this masterfully told account of the American West from a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist sets a new standard as it sweeps from the California Gold Rush and beyond. In Dreams of El Dorado, H. W. Brands tells the thrilling, panoramic story of the settling of the American West. He takes us from John Jacob Astor's fur trading outpost in Oregon to the Texas Revolution, from the California gold rush to the Oklahoma land rush. He shows how the migrants' dreams drove them to feats of courage and perseverance that put their stay-at-home cousins to shame-and how those same dreams also drove them to outrageous acts of violence against indigenous peoples and one another. The West was where riches would reward the miner's persistence, the cattleman's courage, the railroad man's enterprise; but El Dorado was at least as elusive in the West as it ever was in the East. Balanced, authoritative, and masterfully told, Dreams of El Dorado sets a new standard for histories of the American West.

Author: Henry Inman
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Tales of the Trail: Short Stories of Western Life" by Henry Inman. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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