Author: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
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ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States, Extending from Detroit Through the Great Chain of American Lakes, to the Sources of the Mississippi River, Performed as a Member of the Expedition Under Governor Cass, in the Year 1820
Author: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Narrative Journal of Travels Through the Northwestern Regions of the United States
Author: Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to locate the Mississippi River's sources, to explore the Great Lakes region, and to describe its significant topographical features, natural history, and mineral wealth. Schoolcraft joined the expedition as a mineralogist, and this is the journal of his participation. He describes his preliminary journey from New York to Detroit, where the expedition embarks for Michilimackinac and presses on to Sault de Ste. Marie and Fond du Lac. Eventually the explorers locate Lake Itasca in Minnesota, where the Mississippi originates. Schoolcraft also highlights St. Peter's, Prairie du Chien, the lead mines at Dubuque, and Green Bay, and devotes a whole chapter to the Ontagenon River and its nearby copper mines. His journal blends narrative with historical, ethnographic and statistical information.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793-1864) was an explorer, Indian agent, and early ethnologist of Native American culture who joined an expedition organized by Governor Cass of Michigan in 1819. Its purpose was to locate the Mississippi River's sources, to explore the Great Lakes region, and to describe its significant topographical features, natural history, and mineral wealth. Schoolcraft joined the expedition as a mineralogist, and this is the journal of his participation. He describes his preliminary journey from New York to Detroit, where the expedition embarks for Michilimackinac and presses on to Sault de Ste. Marie and Fond du Lac. Eventually the explorers locate Lake Itasca in Minnesota, where the Mississippi originates. Schoolcraft also highlights St. Peter's, Prairie du Chien, the lead mines at Dubuque, and Green Bay, and devotes a whole chapter to the Ontagenon River and its nearby copper mines. His journal blends narrative with historical, ethnographic and statistical information.
Essayons: a History of the Detroit District, U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Author: John W. Larson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Lakes Region (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Arkansas Travelers
Author: Andrew J. Milson
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1610756657
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
Winner, 2020 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award from the Arkansas Historical Association “I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods,” a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and settlers depicted in Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804–1834. This book is the first to integrate the stories of four travelers who explored Arkansas during the transformative period between the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and statehood in 1836: William Dunbar, Thomas Nuttall, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and George William Featherstonhaugh. In addition to gathering their tales of treacherous rivers, drunken scoundrels, and repulsive food, historian and geographer Andrew J. Milson explores the impact such travel narratives have had on geographical understandings of Arkansas places. Using the language in each traveler’s narrative, Milson suggests, and the book includes, new maps that trace these perceptions, illustrating not just the lands traversed, but the way travelers experienced and perceived place. By taking a geographical approach to the history of these spaces, Arkansas Travelers offers a deeper understanding—a deeper map—of Arkansas.
Catalogue of Accessions to the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario During the Years
Author: Ontario. Legislative Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Catalogue of Accessions to the Legislative Library of the Province of Ontario During the Years 1913, 1914 and 1915
Author: Ontario. Legislative Library
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Essayons
Author: John W. Larson
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Native American Warriors
Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 078583429X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Learn how Native American tribes across North America waged war during European colonization, and how they adapted with things like horses, firearms, and stealth.
Publisher: Chartwell Books
ISBN: 078583429X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Learn how Native American tribes across North America waged war during European colonization, and how they adapted with things like horses, firearms, and stealth.
Warriors of the World: The Native American Warrior
Author: Chris McNab
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312596898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Surveys the training, tools, and strategies of Native American warriors from both large and remote tribes, examining their equipment, disparate combat techniques, and influence on European and American technology.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312596898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Surveys the training, tools, and strategies of Native American warriors from both large and remote tribes, examining their equipment, disparate combat techniques, and influence on European and American technology.
Those Army Engineers
Author: John W. Larson
Publisher:
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Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civil engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description