Author: E. S. Ingalls
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51
Author: E. S. Ingalls
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
"Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51" by E. S. Ingalls. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51
Author: Eleazer Stillman Ingalls
Publisher: Ye Galleon Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher: Ye Galleon Press
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
Author: Glenda Riley
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
The Frontier Army in the Settlement of the West
Author: Michael L. Tate
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806133867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
A reassessment of the military's role in developing the Western territories moves beyond combat stories and stereotypes to focus on more non-martial accomplishments such as exploration, gathering scientific data, and building towns.
The Plains Across
Author: John D. Unruh
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
The Plains and the Rockies
Author: Henry Raup Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Oregon Trail
Author: David Dary
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307429113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307429113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the early 1800s, a vast area then the object of international rivalry among Spain, Britain, Russia, and the United States, David Dary gives us the whole sweeping story of those who came to explore, to exploit, and, finally, to settle there. Using diaries, journals, company and expedition reports, and newspaper accounts, David Dary takes us inside the experience of the continuing waves of people who traveled the Oregon Trail or took its cutoffs to Utah, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, and California. He introduces us to the fur traders who set up the first “forts” as centers to ply their trade; the missionaries bent on converting the Indians to Christianity; the mountain men and voyageurs who settled down at last in the fertile Willamette Valley; the farmers and their families propelled west by economic bad times in the East; and, of course, the gold-seekers, Pony Express riders, journalists, artists, and entrepreneurs who all added their unique presence to the land they traversed. We meet well-known figures–John Jacob Astor, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, John Frémont, the Donners, and Red Cloud, among others–as well as dozens of little-known men, women, and children who jotted down what they were seeing and feeling in journals, letters, or perhaps even on a rock or a gravestone. Throughout, Dary keeps us informed of developments in the East and their influence on events in the West, among them the building of the transcontinental railroad and the efforts of the far western settlements to become U.S. territories and eventually states. Above all, The Oregon Trail offers a panoramic look at the romance, colorful stories, hardships, and joys of the pioneers who made up this tremendous and historic migration.
Ho for California!
Author: Sandra L. Myres
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The five diaries presented here reflect the experiences of five different women, on three of the major westward routes in the middle of the nineteenth century—across Panama in 1849, the California or northern route in the 1850s, and the Gila or southern trail in the post-Civil War period. The reader will find neither the sunbonnet saint, striding grimly forward undaunted by the dangers ahead, nor the timorous and reluctant voyager living in dread of Indians and wild beasts. The self-perceptions of these women are as varied as those of male writers, as these diaries vividly illustrate. Women's diaries are comparatively rare, and this book includes five of unusual interest.
Publisher: Huntington Library Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The five diaries presented here reflect the experiences of five different women, on three of the major westward routes in the middle of the nineteenth century—across Panama in 1849, the California or northern route in the 1850s, and the Gila or southern trail in the post-Civil War period. The reader will find neither the sunbonnet saint, striding grimly forward undaunted by the dangers ahead, nor the timorous and reluctant voyager living in dread of Indians and wild beasts. The self-perceptions of these women are as varied as those of male writers, as these diaries vividly illustrate. Women's diaries are comparatively rare, and this book includes five of unusual interest.
The Americans: The National Experience
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307756475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize.
Spreading the Word
Author: Richard Thomas Stillson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803243251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A study of the ways in which Americans from the east, who traveled to the "gold country" of California in 18491851, obtained and used information.