Author: James Henry Cook
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.
Fifty Years on the Old Frontier as Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman
Author: James Henry Cook
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806117614
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The keen-eyed, cool-headed, and fearless men (Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Buffalo Bill Cody, Big Foot Wallace, and Captain Jim Cook, among others) who were pivotal personalities for more than half a century in the almost ceaseless task of clearing the way for and guarding the lives and properties of explorers, emigrants, and settlers in the West, are an extinct type of pioneer, Accounts of the heroic deeds of this handful of men, however, remain today as indelible records that dramatize the melting away of this country’s vast frontiers.
Wondrous Times on the Frontier
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.
Publisher: august house
ISBN: 9780874836752
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.
Outposts on the Frontier
Author: Jay Chladek
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620106X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev's in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620106X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 511
Book Description
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these earlier programs have been all but forgotten as the public focused on other, higher-profile adventures such as the Apollo moon landings. A vast trove of stories filled with excitement, danger, humor, sadness, failure, and success, Outposts on the Frontier reveals how the Soviets and the Americans combined strengths to build space stations over the past fifty years. At the heart of these scientific advances are people of both greatness and modesty. Jay Chladek documents the historical tapestry of the people, the early attempts at space station programs, and how astronauts and engineers have contributed to and shaped the ISS in surprising ways. Outposts on the Frontier delves into the intriguing stories behind the USAF Manned Orbiting Laboratory, the Almaz and Salyut programs, Skylab, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, Spacelab, Mir station, Spacehab, and the ISS and gives past-due attention to Vladimir Chelomei, the Russian designer whose influence in space station development is as significant as Sergei Korolev's in rocketry. Outposts on the Frontier is an informative and dynamic history of humankind's first outposts on the frontier of space.
Fifty Years on the Trail
Author: John Young Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dakota Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
American Grit
Author: Emily Foster
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081314941X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081314941X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
In 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote her mother and sisters over the next fifty years as she strove to keep herself and her children in their memories. With Anna's natural talent for storytelling and her unique, female perspective, the letters provide a sustained and vivid account of everyday domestic life on the Ohio frontier. She writes of carving a farm out of the forest, bearing many children, darning and patching the family clothes, standing her ground in religious controversy, nursing wounds and fevers, and burying beloved family and friends. Emily Foster presents these revealing letters of a pioneer woman in a framework of insightful commentary and historical context, with genealogical appendices.
Cowman's Country
Author: Pauline Durrett Robertson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Wild West Women
Author: Erin H. Turner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493023349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon to the Texas Gulf.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493023349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Wild West Women features the true stories of the pioneering wives, mothers, daughters, teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists who shaped the frontier and helped change the face of American history. These fifty stories cover the Western experience from Kansas City to Sacramento and the Yukon to the Texas Gulf.
The Way West
Author: James A. Crutchfield
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765304506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765304506
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
A seasoned historian assembles a remarkable cadre of authors, who reveal forgotten, true stories of the American frontier.
Tomorrow Now
Author: Bruce Sterling
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812969766
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Predicting that the next generation will be living in a substantially different world, a forecast for the next fifty years discusses such topics as technology, health, law enforcement, and politics, and has been updated to include an all-new afterword. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812969766
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Predicting that the next generation will be living in a substantially different world, a forecast for the next fifty years discusses such topics as technology, health, law enforcement, and politics, and has been updated to include an all-new afterword. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Tularosa, Last of the Frontier West
Author: Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826305619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826305619
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
The history of the Tularosa Basin--which includes White Sands Missile Range--from pioneer days through the atomic age.