Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780395947432
Category : Dwellings
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Describes the challenges that American settlers faced when they left the farms and towns in the East in their Conestoga wagons and headed West.
Author: Simon Shaw
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743442709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Follows three families as they recreate the lives of Western homesteaders.
Author: Joan M. Jensen
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 0873517288
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 519
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An intimate view of frontier women--Anglo and Indian--and the communities they forged.
Author: Honor Sachs
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030021653X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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On America’s western frontier, myths of prosperity concealed the brutal conditions endured by women, slaves, orphans, and the poor. As poverty and unrest took root in eighteenth-century Kentucky, western lawmakers championed ideas about whiteness, manhood, and patriarchal authority to help stabilize a politically fractious frontier. Honor Sachs combines rigorous scholarship with an engaging narrative to examine how conditions in Kentucky facilitated the expansion of rights for white men in ways that would become a model for citizenship in the country as a whole. Endorsed by many prominent western historians, this groundbreaking work is a major contribution to frontier scholarship.
Author: Rachel Hinman
Publisher: Rosenfeld Media
ISBN: 1933820055
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Mobile user experience is a new frontier. Untethered from a keyboard and mouse, this rich design space is lush with opportunity to invent new and more human ways for people to interact with information. Invention requires casting off many anchors and conventions inherited from the last 50 years of computer science and traditional design and jumping head first into a new and unfamiliar design space.
Author: Marianne J. Dyson
Publisher: National Geographic Children's Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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Author: Theodore Catton
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421422921
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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"Exiles in Indian Country weaves together the biographies of three men who cast their fortunes with the Western fur trade in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. John Tanner was a 'white Indian' who was taken captive and raised by Ottawa, and lived among the Ottawa and Ojibwa for thirty years, hunting across the northern forests and plains of present-day Ontario, Manitoba, and northern Minnesota. Dr. John McLoughlin fled the law in Quebec at the age of eighteen to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the Lake Superior region during its two decades of war with the North West Company. Major Stephen H. Long explored the northern borderlands in a time when the United States aimed to take over British-Indian trade in its new western territories. The three men met at the HBC's Rainy Lake House near the Boundary Waters in 1823 after Tanner was badly wounded while trying to take his daughters out of Indian country, to save them from being raped by the white traders. Foregrounding this incident, Theodore Catton examines the events leading up to this fateful encounter through a Rashomon-like tale about the British-American-Indian frontier. Through these three colliding vantage points, the book describes the world of the fur trade: American, British, and Indian; imperial, capital, and labor; explorer, trader, and hunter. In its competing viewpoints, Exiles in Indian Country deftly crafts one grand narrative out of three and reveals the perilous lives of the white adventurers and their Indian families who lived on the fringe--truly the hands of empire"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Linda S. Peavy
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806126197
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Looks at the lives of the homebound wives of Western pioneers
Author: Everett Dick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780803216877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Author: Nancy Reagin
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Who owns the West? -- Buffalo Bill and Karl May : the origins of German Western fandom -- A wall runs through it : western fans in the two Germanies -- Little houses on the prairie -- "And then the American Indians came over" : fan responses to indigenous resurgence and political change -- Indians into Confederates : historical fiction fans, reenactors, and living history.
