Author: Obridge Allen
Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Guide Book and Map to the Gold Fields of Kansas & Nebraska and Great Salt Lake City
Author: Obridge Allen
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Success Depends on the Animals
Author: Diana L. Ahmad
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1943859108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Between 1840 and 1869, thousands of people crossed the American continent looking for a new life in the West. Success Depends on the Animals explores the relationships and encounters that these emigrants had with animals, both wild and domestic, as they traveled the Overland Trail. In the longest migration of people in history, the overlanders were accompanied by thousands of work animals such as horses, oxen, mules, and cattle. These travelers also brought dogs and other companion animals, and along the way confronted unknown wild animals. Ahmad’s study is the first to explore how these emigrants became dependent upon the animals that traveled with them, and how, for some, this dependence influenced a new way of thinking about the human-animal bond. The pioneers learned how to work with the animals and take care of them while on the move. Many had never ridden a horse before, let alone hitched oxen to a wagon. Due to the close working relationship that the emigrants were forced to have with these animals, many befriended the domestic beasts of burden, even attributing human characteristics to them. Drawing on primary sources such as journals, diaries, and newspaper accounts, Ahmad explores how these new experiences influenced fresh ideas about the role of animals in pioneer life. Scholars and students of western history and animal studies will find this a fascinating and distinctive analysis of an understudied topic.
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
ISBN: 1943859108
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Between 1840 and 1869, thousands of people crossed the American continent looking for a new life in the West. Success Depends on the Animals explores the relationships and encounters that these emigrants had with animals, both wild and domestic, as they traveled the Overland Trail. In the longest migration of people in history, the overlanders were accompanied by thousands of work animals such as horses, oxen, mules, and cattle. These travelers also brought dogs and other companion animals, and along the way confronted unknown wild animals. Ahmad’s study is the first to explore how these emigrants became dependent upon the animals that traveled with them, and how, for some, this dependence influenced a new way of thinking about the human-animal bond. The pioneers learned how to work with the animals and take care of them while on the move. Many had never ridden a horse before, let alone hitched oxen to a wagon. Due to the close working relationship that the emigrants were forced to have with these animals, many befriended the domestic beasts of burden, even attributing human characteristics to them. Drawing on primary sources such as journals, diaries, and newspaper accounts, Ahmad explores how these new experiences influenced fresh ideas about the role of animals in pioneer life. Scholars and students of western history and animal studies will find this a fascinating and distinctive analysis of an understudied topic.
All Because of a Mormon Cow
Author: John D. McDermott
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080616302X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant’s cow. The terrible series of events that followed, which became known as the Grattan Massacre, unleashed the opening volley in the First Sioux War—and marked the beginning of a generation of Indian warfare on the Great Plains. All Because of a Mormon Cow tells, for the first time, the full story of this seminal event in the history of the American West. Where previous accounts of the Grattan Massacre have made do with limited primary sources, this volume includes eighty contemporary, annotated accounts of the fight and its aftermath, many newly discovered or recovered from obscurity. Recorded when the events were fresh in their narrators’ memories, these documents bring a sense of immediacy to a story more than a century and a half old. Alongside the voices heard here—of the Indian leaders Little Thunder and Big Partisan, of Mormons from passing emigrant trains, and of government officials charged with investigating the massacre, among many others—the editors include a substantial and thorough introduction that underscores the significance of the Grattan Massacre in all its depth and detail. All Because of a Mormon Cow offers a better understanding even as it evokes the drama of a highly controversial episode in the history of relations between Indians and non-Indians in the American West.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 080616302X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
On August 19, 1854, U.S. Army lieutenant John L. Grattan led a detachment of twenty-nine soldiers and one civilian interpreter to a large Lakota encampment near Fort Laramie to arrest an Indian man accused of killing a Mormon emigrant’s cow. The terrible series of events that followed, which became known as the Grattan Massacre, unleashed the opening volley in the First Sioux War—and marked the beginning of a generation of Indian warfare on the Great Plains. All Because of a Mormon Cow tells, for the first time, the full story of this seminal event in the history of the American West. Where previous accounts of the Grattan Massacre have made do with limited primary sources, this volume includes eighty contemporary, annotated accounts of the fight and its aftermath, many newly discovered or recovered from obscurity. Recorded when the events were fresh in their narrators’ memories, these documents bring a sense of immediacy to a story more than a century and a half old. Alongside the voices heard here—of the Indian leaders Little Thunder and Big Partisan, of Mormons from passing emigrant trains, and of government officials charged with investigating the massacre, among many others—the editors include a substantial and thorough introduction that underscores the significance of the Grattan Massacre in all its depth and detail. All Because of a Mormon Cow offers a better understanding even as it evokes the drama of a highly controversial episode in the history of relations between Indians and non-Indians in the American West.
Colorado, the Diamond Jubilee of Statehood
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Pike's Peak Gold Rush Guidebooks of 1859
Author: Luke Tierney
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Kansas Territory and the Pike's Peak Gold Rush
Author: Calvin W. Gower
Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Publisher:
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Category : Colorado
Languages : en
Pages : 702
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Publications - Nebraska State Historical Society
Author: Nebraska State Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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LeRoy R. and Ann W. Hafen: Their Writings
Author: J. Reuben Clark, Jr., Library
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
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Publisher:
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Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publications of the Nebraska State Historical Society
Author:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Published Sources on Territorial Nebraska
Author: John Browning White
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Publisher:
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Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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