Author: Jules Leclercq
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496211707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 318
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In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world's first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq's account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park's long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
Author: Edward F. Colborn
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "To Geyserland" (Union Pacific-Oregon Short Line Railroads to the Yellowstone National Park) by Edward F. Colborn. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author: Helen Addison Howard
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149620428X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 491
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"In "Saga of Chief Joseph," Helen Addison Howard has written the definitive biography of the great Nez Perce chief, a diplomat among warriors. In times of war and peace, Chief Joseph exhibited gifts of the first rank as a leader for peace and tribal liberty. Following his people's internment in Indian Territory in 1877, Chief Joseph secured their release in 1885 and led them back to their home country. Fiercely principled, he never abandoned his quest to have his country, the Wallowa Valley, returned to its rightful owners. The struggle of the Nez Perces for the freedom they considered paramount in life constitutes one of the most dramatic episodes in Indian history. This completely revised edition of the author's 1941 version (titled War Chief Joseph) presents in exciting detail the full story of Chief Joseph, with a reevaluation of the five bands engaged in the Nez Perce War, told from the Indian, the white military, and the settler points of view. Especially valuable is the reappraisal, based on significant new material from Indian sources, of Joseph as a war leader. The new introduction by Nicole Tonkovich explores the continuing relevance of Chief Joseph and the lasting significance of Howard's work during the era of Angie Debo, Alice Marriott, and Muriel H. Wright."--Provided by publisher.
Author: Edward F. Colborn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geysers
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Author: Frank D. Carpenter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nez Percé Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Author: Harry J. Norton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 338520934X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: Richard Hatfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Utopias
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Author: Sir Harry Johnston
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788172681012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1100
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Author: Lucullus Virgil McWhorter
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870045554
Category : Americana
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Author: Jules Leclercq
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803245580
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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In the summer of 1883 Belgian travel writer Jules Leclercq spent ten days on horseback in Yellowstone, the world’s first national park, exploring myriad natural wonders: astonishing geysers, majestic waterfalls, the vast lake, and the breathtaking canyon. He also recorded the considerable human activity, including the rampant vandalism. Leclercq’s account of his travels is itself a small marvel blending natural history, firsthand impressions, scientific lore, and anecdote. Along with his observations on the park’s long-rumored fountains of boiling water and mountains of glass, Leclercq describes camping near geysers, washing clothes in a bubbling hot spring, and meeting such diverse characters as local guides and tourists from the United States and Europe. Notables including former president Ulysses S. Grant and then-president Chester A. Arthur were also in the park that summer to inaugurate the newly completed leg of the Northern Pacific Railroad. A sensation in Europe, the book was never published in English. This deft translation at long last makes available to English-speaking readers a masterpiece of western American travel writing that is a fascinating historical document in its own right.
