Author: Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
By Ox Team to California
Author: Lavinia Honeyman Porter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915
Author: Sandra L. Myres
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826306265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Pioneer Days in California: (Abridged, Annotated)
Author: John Carr
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
When John Carr published this book in 1891, he had already been a Californian for over forty years. His true tales of gold prospecting, gun fights, encounters with Indians, rough characters of the West, and politicos are amusing and highly entertaining. He knew many of the early big players in the state and provides an interesting view of the west during the American Civil War. Among his other employments, he sat as a police judge in Eureka, California and spent time in Tombstone, Arizona, during its wild west period. At the end of the book he provides short biographies of notables he knew. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
Publisher: BIG BYTE BOOKS
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
When John Carr published this book in 1891, he had already been a Californian for over forty years. His true tales of gold prospecting, gun fights, encounters with Indians, rough characters of the West, and politicos are amusing and highly entertaining. He knew many of the early big players in the state and provides an interesting view of the west during the American Civil War. Among his other employments, he sat as a police judge in Eureka, California and spent time in Tombstone, Arizona, during its wild west period. At the end of the book he provides short biographies of notables he knew. Every memoir of the American West provides us with another view of the movement that changed the country forever. For the first time, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
The Opening of the California Trail
Author: George R. Stewart
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520349245
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1953.
Growing Up with the Country
Author: Elliott West
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826311559
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915
Author: Glenda Riley
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307804
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
The first account of how and why pioneer women altered their self-images and their views of American Indians.
Travellers and Explorers from 1846 to 1900 ...
Author: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300153511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
This classic book offers a lively and penetrating analysis of what the overland journey was really like for midwestern farm families in the mid-1800s. Through the subtle use of contemporary diaries, memoirs, and even folk songs, John Mack Faragher dispels the common stereotypes of male and female roles and reveals the dynamic of pioneer family relationships. This edition includes a new preface in which Faragher looks back on the social context in which he formulated his original thesis and provides a new supplemental bibliography. Praise for the earlier edition: "Faragher has made excellent use of the Overland Trail materials, using them to illuminate the society the emigrants left as well as the one they constructed en route. His study should be important to a wide range of readers, especially those interested in family history, migration and western history, and women's history."--Kathryn Kish Sklar "An enlightening study."--American West "A helpful study which not only illuminates the daily life of rural Americans but which also begins to compensate for the male orientation of so much of western history."--Journal of Social History
So Rugged and Mountainous
Author: Will Bagley
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service’s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources—personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts—into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806184019
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The story of America’s westward migration is a powerful blend of fact and fable. Over the course of three decades, almost a million eager fortune-hunters, pioneers, and visionaries transformed the face of a continent—and displaced its previous inhabitants. The people who made the long and perilous journey over the Oregon and California trails drove this swift and astonishing change. In this magisterial volume, Will Bagley tells why and how this massive emigration began. While many previous authors have told parts of this story, Bagley has recast it in its entirety for modern readers. Drawing on research he conducted for the National Park Service’s Long Distance Trails Office, he has woven a wealth of primary sources—personal letters and journals, government documents, newspaper reports, and folk accounts—into a compelling narrative that reinterprets the first years of overland migration. Illustrated with photographs and historical maps, So Rugged and Mountainous is the first of a projected four-volume history, Overland West: The Story of the Oregon and California Trails. This sweeping series describes how the “Road across the Plains” transformed the American West and became an enduring part of its legacy. And by showing that overland emigration would not have been possible without the cooperation of Native peoples and tribes, it places American Indians at the center of trail history, not on its margins.
Books by American Travellers and Explorers from 1846 to 1900
Author: Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description