Author: Tim Blevins
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"To Spare No Pains"
Author: Tim Blevins
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
"To Spare No Pains": Zebulon Montgomery Pike and His 1806-1807 Southwest Expedition
Author:
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Publisher: Pikes Peak Library District
ISBN: 1567352537
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
With Announcements for the Winter Semester and the Spring Semester of ... and ...
Author: University of Notre Dame
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Universities and colleges
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Author: Royal Institution of Naval Architects
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Naval architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Citizen Explorer
Author: Jared Orsi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishing expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pike's Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau, patriarchs of St. Louis's most powerful fur-trading family, who sought to make themselves indispensible to Jefferson's administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans, and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whom resisted the expansion of the United States. Through Pike's life, Orsi examines how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical, materialist sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he became increasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental perspective, rich in cultural and political context, Citizen Explorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199314543
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on the unclimbed peak-and new adventures lay ahead of him and his republic. In Citizen Explorer, historian Jared Orsi provides the first modern biography of this soldier and explorer, who rivaled contemporaries Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Born in 1779, Pike joined the army and served in frontier posts in the Ohio River valley before embarking on a series of astonishing expeditions. He sought the headwaters of the Mississippi and later the sources of the Arkansas and Red Rivers, which led him to Pike's Peak and capture by Spanish forces. Along the way, he met Aaron Burr and General James Wilkinson; Auguste and Pierre Couteau, patriarchs of St. Louis's most powerful fur-trading family, who sought to make themselves indispensible to Jefferson's administration; as well as British fur-traders, Native Americans, and officers of the Spanish empire, all of whom resisted the expansion of the United States. Through Pike's life, Orsi examines how American nationalism thinned as it stretched west, from the Jeffersonian idealism on the Atlantic to a practical, materialist sensibility on the frontier. Surveying and gathering data, Pike sought to incorporate these distant territories into the republic, to overlay the west with the American map grid; yet he became increasingly dependent for survival on people who had no attachment to the nation he served. He eventually died in that service, in a victorious battle in the War of 1812. Written from an environmental perspective, rich in cultural and political context, Citizen Explorer is a state-of-the-art biography of a remarkable man.
Sir Victor's Choice
Author: Annie Thomas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752569018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752569018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Education and Educators
Author: David Kay
Publisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1240
Book Description
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE AMUSEMENT , AND INSTRUCTION : VOL V
Author: The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Journal of the Royal United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description