Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Trail and Trading Post
Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Along Navajo Trails
Author: Will Evans
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457174898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
ISBN: 1457174898
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
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
Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Trail and Trading Post; Or, the Young Hunters of the Ohio. Illustrated by J.W. Kennedy
Author: Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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The Out Trail
Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
Publisher:
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Category : Baja California Sur (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Baja California Sur (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Fort Bridger, Wyoming
Author: Hunt Janin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger's role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper's journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
For nearly fifty years, Fort Bridger played a role in all major events of the 19th century Rocky Mountain frontier and westering experience. Founded in 1842 by mountain man Jim Bridger, this southwestern Wyoming post was one of the most important outfitting points for travelers on the Oregon Trail, riders of the Pony Express, the Overland Stage, and the Union Pacific Railroad. Trappers, buffalo hunters, Forty-niners, soldiers and outlaws would pass through what is now the Fort Bridger State Historic Site. This post, or fort, is used as a basis for an illustrated account of the Rocky Mountain West. The book explores reasons why American Indian behavior varied between helpfulness and aggression toward mountain men and emigrants. Also detailed are weapons of the frontier, Fort Bridger's role in the 1857 Mormon War, the 1867 Wind River Mountains gold rush, and the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872. Several appendices are presented, including a discussion of gender in the westering movement and a selected chronology of frontier history. Interesting and highly detailed excerpts are taken from such primary sources as a trapper's journal and an 1850 account of buffalo butchering.
The Indian Trail Down the White Water Valley
Author: John L. Heinemann
Publisher:
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Category : Connersville (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category : Connersville (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Old North Trail, Or, Life, Legends, and Religion of the Blackfeet Indians
Author: Walter McClintock
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
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.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803282582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
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.
Trails to the West
Author: Kathy Pelta
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9780817240721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Describes the hardships and accomplishments of the different groups who established the various trails used to travel westward across the United States in the mid-1800s.
Publisher: Raintree
ISBN: 9780817240721
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Describes the hardships and accomplishments of the different groups who established the various trails used to travel westward across the United States in the mid-1800s.
The Road to Oregon
Author: William James Ghent
Publisher: London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher: London ; New York [etc.] : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description