Author: Mike Cox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
Finding the Wild West: The Pacific West
Author: Mike Cox
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493064185
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture. This guide to the Pacific West states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, and Alaska--one of the five-volume Finding the Wild West series--highlights the best preserved historic sites as well as ghost towns, reconstructions, museums, historical markers, statues, works of public art that tell the story of the Old West. Use this book in planning your next trip and for a storytelling overview of America’s Wild West history.
New Towns in the New World
Author: David Allan Hamer
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231066204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Hamer has written a broad, comparative overview of the evolution of British-derived urban traditions in four former colonies: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231066204
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Hamer has written a broad, comparative overview of the evolution of British-derived urban traditions in four former colonies: the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.
Economic Base for Power Markets in Thurston County, Washington
Author: United States. Bonneville Power Administration
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
American Capitals
Author: Christian Montès
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608051X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committing place-names to memory. But geographers have yet to analyze state capitals in any depth. In American Capitals, Christian Montès takes us on a well-researched journey across America—from Augusta to Sacramento, Albany to Baton Rouge—shedding light along the way on the historical circumstances that led to their appointment, their success or failure, and their evolution over time. While all state capitals have a number of characteristics in common—as symbols of the state, as embodiments of political power and decision making, as public spaces with private interests—Montès does not interpret them through a single lens, in large part because of the differences in their spatial and historical evolutionary patterns. Some have remained small, while others have evolved into bustling metropolises, and Montès explores the dynamics of change and growth. All but eleven state capitals were established in the nineteenth century, thirty-five before 1861, but, rather astonishingly, only eight of the fifty states have maintained their original capitals. Despite their revered status as the most monumental and historical cities in America, capitals come from surprisingly humble beginnings, often plagued by instability, conflict, hostility, and corruption. Montès reminds us of the period in which they came about, “an era of pioneer and idealized territorial vision,” coupled with a still-evolving American citizenry and democracy.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022608051X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
State capitals are an indelible part of the American psyche, spatial representations of state power and national identity. Learning them by heart is a rite of passage in grade school, a pedagogical exercise that emphasizes the importance of committing place-names to memory. But geographers have yet to analyze state capitals in any depth. In American Capitals, Christian Montès takes us on a well-researched journey across America—from Augusta to Sacramento, Albany to Baton Rouge—shedding light along the way on the historical circumstances that led to their appointment, their success or failure, and their evolution over time. While all state capitals have a number of characteristics in common—as symbols of the state, as embodiments of political power and decision making, as public spaces with private interests—Montès does not interpret them through a single lens, in large part because of the differences in their spatial and historical evolutionary patterns. Some have remained small, while others have evolved into bustling metropolises, and Montès explores the dynamics of change and growth. All but eleven state capitals were established in the nineteenth century, thirty-five before 1861, but, rather astonishingly, only eight of the fifty states have maintained their original capitals. Despite their revered status as the most monumental and historical cities in America, capitals come from surprisingly humble beginnings, often plagued by instability, conflict, hostility, and corruption. Montès reminds us of the period in which they came about, “an era of pioneer and idealized territorial vision,” coupled with a still-evolving American citizenry and democracy.
The Americana
Author: Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
The World Book
Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The World's Work
Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A history of our time.
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
A history of our time.
Moody's Manual of Investments: American and Foreign
Author:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1934
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 1934
Book Description
History of the State of Washington
Author: Edmond Stephen Meany
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Washington (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
Moody's Manual of Investments
Author: John Sherman Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 2250
Book Description
American government securities); 1928-53 in 5 annual vols.:[v.1] Railroad securities (1952-53. Transportation); [v.2] Industrial securities; [v.3] Public utility securities; [v.4] Government securities (1928-54); [v.5] Banks, insurance companies, investment trusts, real estate, finance and credit companies ( 1928-54)
Publisher:
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Category : Corporations
Languages : en
Pages : 2250
Book Description
American government securities); 1928-53 in 5 annual vols.:[v.1] Railroad securities (1952-53. Transportation); [v.2] Industrial securities; [v.3] Public utility securities; [v.4] Government securities (1928-54); [v.5] Banks, insurance companies, investment trusts, real estate, finance and credit companies ( 1928-54)