Author: Ezra Meeker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a book written by Ezra Meeker about his experience traveling the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later on in his life, Meeker became convinced that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, and he determined to bring it publicity so it could be marked and monuments erected. In 1906–1908, while in his late 70s, he retraced his steps along the Oregon Trail by wagon, seeking to build monuments in communities along the way. His trek reached New York City, and in Washington, D.C., he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He traveled the Trail again several times in the final two decades of this life, including by oxcart in 1910–1912 and by airplane in 1924.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Author: Ezra Meeker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a book written by Ezra Meeker about his experience traveling the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later on in his life, Meeker became convinced that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, and he determined to bring it publicity so it could be marked and monuments erected. In 1906–1908, while in his late 70s, he retraced his steps along the Oregon Trail by wagon, seeking to build monuments in communities along the way. His trek reached New York City, and in Washington, D.C., he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He traveled the Trail again several times in the final two decades of this life, including by oxcart in 1910–1912 and by airplane in 1924.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
'Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail' is a book written by Ezra Meeker about his experience traveling the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific Coast. Later on in his life, Meeker became convinced that the Oregon Trail was being forgotten, and he determined to bring it publicity so it could be marked and monuments erected. In 1906–1908, while in his late 70s, he retraced his steps along the Oregon Trail by wagon, seeking to build monuments in communities along the way. His trek reached New York City, and in Washington, D.C., he met President Theodore Roosevelt. He traveled the Trail again several times in the final two decades of this life, including by oxcart in 1910–1912 and by airplane in 1924.
Ox-team Days on the Oregon Trail
Author: Ezra Meeker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Covered-wagon Centennial and Ox-team Days
Author: Oregon Trail Memorial Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Northwestern States
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
By Ox Team to California
Author: Lavinia Honeyman Porter
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Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
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ISBN:
Category : Overland journeys to the Pacific
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The Farmer's Every-day Book, Or, Sketches of Social Life in the Country
Author: John Lauris Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
The Farmer's Every-day Book
Author: John Lauris Blake
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Early Days in Kansas: Along the Santa Fe and Lawrence trails. Old Ridgeway, 1855-69
Author: Charles Ransley Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Mystic Chords of Memory
Author: Michael Kammen
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307761401
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic." —Washington Post Book World In this ground-breaking, panoramic work of American cultural history, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Machine That Would Go of Itself examines a central paradox of our national identity How did "the land of the future" acquire a past? And to what extent has our collective memory of that past—as embodied in our traditions—have been distorted, or even manufactured? Ranging from John Adams to Ronald Reagan, from the origins of Independence Day celebrations to the controversies surrounding the Vietnam War Memorial, from the Daughters of the American Revolution to immigrant associations, and filled with incisive analyses of such phenonema as Americana and its collectors, "historic" villages and Disneyland, Mystic Chords of Memory is a brilliant, immensely readable, and enormously important book. "Fascinating . . . a subtle and teeming narrative . . . masterly." —Time "This is a big, ambitious book, and Kammen pulls it off admirably. . . . [He] brings a prodigious mind and much scholarly rigor to his task . . . an importnat book—and a revealing look at how Americans look at themselves." —Milwaukee Journal
Early Days in Kansas: Along the Santa Fe trail, Council City, 1854-5, Superior, 1856, and Burlingame, 1856-64
Author: Charles Ransley Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Use of Land and Water Resources in the Past and Present Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico
Author: Anne V. T. Kirkby
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 194909846X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the first volume of a series on Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Anne V. T. Kirkby investigated the agricultural production in the valley. With land-use data gathered at the time of her study (the 1960s), she created population and distribution models to help archaeologists interpret prehistoric settlement patterns in the region.
Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY
ISBN: 194909846X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In the first volume of a series on Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Valley of Oaxaca, Anne V. T. Kirkby investigated the agricultural production in the valley. With land-use data gathered at the time of her study (the 1960s), she created population and distribution models to help archaeologists interpret prehistoric settlement patterns in the region.