Trail and Trading Post

Trail and Trading Post PDF Author: Edward Stratemeyer
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Trail and Trading Post

Trail and Trading Post PDF Author: Edward Stratemeyer
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Along Navajo Trails

Along Navajo Trails PDF Author: Will Evans
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457174898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Will Evans's writings should find a special niche in the small but significant body of literature from and about traders to the Navajos. Evans was the proprietor of the Shiprock Trading Company. Probably more than most of his fellow traders, he had a strong interest in Navajo culture. The effort he made to record and share what he learned certainly was unusual. He published in the Farmington and New Mexico newspapers and other periodicals, compiling many of his pieces into a book manuscript. His subjects were Navajos he knew and traded with, their stories of historic events such as the Long Walk, and descriptions of their culture as he, an outsider without academic training, understood it. Evans's writings were colored by his fondness for, uncommon access to, and friendships with Navajos, and by who he was: a trader, folk artist, and Mormon. He accurately portrayed the operations of a trading post and knew both the material and artistic value of Navajo crafts. His art was mainly inspired by Navajo sandpainting. He appropriated and, no doubt, sometimes misappropriated that sacred art to paint surfaces and objects of all kinds. As a Mormon, he had particular views of who the Navajos were and what they believed and was representative of a large class of often-overlooked traders. Much of the Navajo trade in the Four Corners region and farther west was operated by Mormons. They had a significant historical role as intermediaries, or brokers, between Native and European American peoples in this part of the West. Well connected at the center of that world, Evans was a good spokesperson.

Trail and Trading Post; Or, The Young Hunters of the Ohio

Trail and Trading Post; Or, The Young Hunters of the Ohio PDF Author: Edward Stratemeyer
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Languages : en
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Granite

Granite PDF Author: Susan Butcher
Publisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 0975402900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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During a raging Arctic blizzard, Granite helps Susan and the rest of the dogs brave the storm and win the Iditarod.

Ride the Dark Trail

Ride the Dark Trail PDF Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 0553899627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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In Ride the Dark Trail, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land. Logan Sackett is wild and rootless, riding west in search of easy living. Then he meets Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who is even wilder than he is. Tall and lean, Em is determined to defend herself against the jealous locals who are trying to take her home. Logan doesn’t want to get involved—until he finds out that Em was born a Sackett. Em is bucking overwhelming odds, but Logan won’t let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knows that part of being a Sackett is backing up your family when they need you.

The Old North Trail, Or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians

The Old North Trail, Or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians PDF Author: Walter McClintock
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602

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In 1886 Walter McClintock went to northwestern Montana as a member of a U.S. Forest Service expedition. He was adopted as a son by Chief Mad Dog, the high priest of the Sun Dance, and spent the next four years living on the Blackfoot Reservation. The Old North Trail, originally published in 1910, is a record of his experiences among the Blackfeet.

Bulletin

Bulletin PDF Author:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Bruff's Wake

Bruff's Wake PDF Author: Harold L. James
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ISBN: 9781893061088
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.

Pecos

Pecos PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780160946363
Category : Outdoor recreation for children
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Just Passin' Thru

Just Passin' Thru PDF Author: Winton Porter
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328493
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that’s enough), and some appear again and again. Some are friends, and some dangerous. But all are united by two things: the author’s story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.