Author: Barbara S. Mahoney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870718915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men whom they named the 'Salem Clique' for the bitter party struggles of the time. Led by Asahel Bush, editor of the Oregon Statesman, the Salem Clique was accused of dictatorship, corruption, and the intention of imposing slavery on the Territory. The Clique, critics maintained, even conspired to establish a government separate from the United States, conceivably a 'bigamous Mormon republic.' While not in agreement with some of the more extreme contemporary accusations against the Clique, many historians have concluded that its members were vicious and unscrupulous men who were able, because of their command of the Democratic Party, to impose their hegemony on the Oregon Territory's inhabitants. Other scholars have seen them as merely another manifestation of the contentious politics of the period. Although the Salem Clique has been given considerable prominence in nearly every account of Oregon's Territorial period, there has not been a detailed study of its role until now. What sort of people were these men? What was their impact on the issues, events, and movements of the period? What role did they play in the years after Oregon became a state? Historian Barbara Mahoney sets out to answer these and many other questions in this comprehensive and deeply researched history"--Publisher description.
The Salem Clique
Author: Barbara S. Mahoney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870718915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men whom they named the 'Salem Clique' for the bitter party struggles of the time. Led by Asahel Bush, editor of the Oregon Statesman, the Salem Clique was accused of dictatorship, corruption, and the intention of imposing slavery on the Territory. The Clique, critics maintained, even conspired to establish a government separate from the United States, conceivably a 'bigamous Mormon republic.' While not in agreement with some of the more extreme contemporary accusations against the Clique, many historians have concluded that its members were vicious and unscrupulous men who were able, because of their command of the Democratic Party, to impose their hegemony on the Oregon Territory's inhabitants. Other scholars have seen them as merely another manifestation of the contentious politics of the period. Although the Salem Clique has been given considerable prominence in nearly every account of Oregon's Territorial period, there has not been a detailed study of its role until now. What sort of people were these men? What was their impact on the issues, events, and movements of the period? What role did they play in the years after Oregon became a state? Historian Barbara Mahoney sets out to answer these and many other questions in this comprehensive and deeply researched history"--Publisher description.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780870718915
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"During the decade of the 1850s, the Oregon Territory progressed toward statehood in an atmosphere of intense political passion and conflict. Editors of rival newspapers blamed a group of young men whom they named the 'Salem Clique' for the bitter party struggles of the time. Led by Asahel Bush, editor of the Oregon Statesman, the Salem Clique was accused of dictatorship, corruption, and the intention of imposing slavery on the Territory. The Clique, critics maintained, even conspired to establish a government separate from the United States, conceivably a 'bigamous Mormon republic.' While not in agreement with some of the more extreme contemporary accusations against the Clique, many historians have concluded that its members were vicious and unscrupulous men who were able, because of their command of the Democratic Party, to impose their hegemony on the Oregon Territory's inhabitants. Other scholars have seen them as merely another manifestation of the contentious politics of the period. Although the Salem Clique has been given considerable prominence in nearly every account of Oregon's Territorial period, there has not been a detailed study of its role until now. What sort of people were these men? What was their impact on the issues, events, and movements of the period? What role did they play in the years after Oregon became a state? Historian Barbara Mahoney sets out to answer these and many other questions in this comprehensive and deeply researched history"--Publisher description.
Journal
Author: Oregon. Legislative Assembly. Senate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Anna
Author: Charlotte Lewis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465305262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The first book "BECKY"in this series brings the Harrigan family and several of their neighbors out of Ohio to the Oregon Territory. The second "REBECCA" relives the first two years of establishing a home in the Oregon Territory - the trials, tribulations and triumphs. This Book "ANNA" brings Becky Harrigan and her childhood friends, Anna, Betty and Sissy, to an age of accountability. They live the history of the Oregon Territory as it struggles to become a state. They struggle as well with their personal feelings and emotions as they marry young men they have met in the five years they´ve lived in the Oregon Territory. There is much happiness as well as overwhelming sorrow in this story of four young girls coming of age in the late 1850´s Oregon Territory.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1465305262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
The first book "BECKY"in this series brings the Harrigan family and several of their neighbors out of Ohio to the Oregon Territory. The second "REBECCA" relives the first two years of establishing a home in the Oregon Territory - the trials, tribulations and triumphs. This Book "ANNA" brings Becky Harrigan and her childhood friends, Anna, Betty and Sissy, to an age of accountability. They live the history of the Oregon Territory as it struggles to become a state. They struggle as well with their personal feelings and emotions as they marry young men they have met in the five years they´ve lived in the Oregon Territory. There is much happiness as well as overwhelming sorrow in this story of four young girls coming of age in the late 1850´s Oregon Territory.
The Rise and Early History of Political Parties in Oregon 1843-1868
Author: Walter Carleton Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Conversion
Author: Katherine Howe
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147511550
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe. It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. "[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."—USA Today "...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."—The New York Times "A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0147511550
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
A chilling mystery based on true events, from New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe. It’s senior year, and St. Joan’s Academy is a pressure cooker. Grades, college applications, boys’ texts: Through it all, Colleen Rowley and her friends keep it together. Until the school’s queen bee suddenly falls into uncontrollable tics in the middle of class. The mystery illness spreads to the school's popular clique, then more students and symptoms follow: seizures, hair loss, violent coughing fits. St. Joan’s buzzes with rumor; rumor erupts into full-blown panic. Everyone scrambles to find something, or someone, to blame. Pollution? Stress? Are the girls faking? Only Colleen—who’s been reading The Crucible for extra credit—comes to realize what nobody else has: Danvers was once Salem Village, where another group of girls suffered from a similarly bizarre epidemic three centuries ago . . . Inspired by true events—from seventeenth-century colonial life to the halls of a modern-day high school—Conversion casts a spell. "[Howe] has a gift for capturing the teenage mindset that nears the level of John Green."—USA Today "...this creepy, gripping novel is intimately real and layered, shedding light on the challenges teenage girls have faced throughout history."—The New York Times "A chilling guessing game . . . that will leave readers thinking about the power (and powerlessness) of young women in the past and present alike."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Founding the Far West
Author: David Alan Johnson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520910982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520910982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 467
Book Description
Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society
Author: Oregon Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft: History of Oregon. 1886-1888
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
... History of Oregon ...
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oregon
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
History of the Pacific States of North America: Oregon
Author: Hubert Howe Bancroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description