The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, and Wolfert's Roost
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Northwestern States
ISBN :
Captain Benjamin Bonneville's Wyoming Expedition: The Lost 1833 Report
Author : Jett B. Conner
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1467148644
Book Description
In 1832, Benjamin Bonneville led the first wagon train across the Continental Divide on the Oregon Trail. Financed by a rival of the Hudson's Bay Company, Bonneville and more than one hundred traders and trappers traveled from Fort Osage on the Missouri River, up to the Platte River and across present-day Wyoming. Washington Irving first gave the U.S. Army officer a brand by chronicling the three-year explorations in the 1837 book The Adventures of Captain Bonneville. Historians have long suspected that the captain, under the guise of commercial fur trading, was preparing for an eventual invasion of Mexico's California territory. Bonneville's 1833 report concerning his first year in the Wind River Range and beyond remained lost for almost a century before resurfacing in the 1920s. Author Jett B. Conner examines the intriguing details revealed in that historic document.
Captain Bonneville
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Northwestern States
ISBN :
Book Description
A Tour on the Prairies
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 49,9 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Book Description
In the Fall of 1832 Washington Irving took part in what he called "a month foray beyond the outposts of human habitation, into the wilderness of the Far West." As was his habit, Irving kept a memorandum book, which he later expanded into A Tour on the Prairies, a real-life Western adventure in the third decade of the nineteenth century. His account is fresh and clear. He saw and makes his readers see the frontiersmen, the trappers, the Indians, and the troopers as they actually were in the 1830s.
Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail
Author : Ezra Meeker
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 2022-08-10
Category : Travel
ISBN :
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.
Astoria
Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : London : R. Bentley
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 43,57 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Astoria (Or.)
ISBN :
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Classic Speedsters
Author : Ronald Sieber
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2021-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781737983408
Book Description
Classic Speedsters: The Cars, The Times, and The Characters Who Drove Them chronicles the most significant vehicles ever to have traveled American roads and racetracks. Speedsters were the pizzazz cars of their era. Speedsters were owned by entertainers, captains of industry, the wealthy, and in some cases, the everyday guy or gal. They were often expensive, but always fast and sexy. Speedsters were America's first sports cars.Each chapter frames the birth and evolution of a company that produced a speedster model in its lineup and includes a biography of a famous owner of the period. This book traces the journey of the speedster concept across several time periods and among twelve automotive companies. It answers three fundamental questions:· Why were these cars so important and influential?· Why did so many prominent people own them?· What message do they have for modern design?
Daughter of Helaman
Author : Misty Moncur
Publisher : Bonneville
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Christian fiction, American
ISBN : 9781599554976
Book Description
Keturah, a pretty Ammonite girl, wants to join the stripling warriors and fight the Lamanites. A friend teaches her to fight, and Captain Helaman accepts her into the ranks of his army.
The Nephite Wife
Author : LeAnn Larson
Publisher : Bonneville Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781462121144
Book Description
Leila's life in Zarahemla is blessed, but that doesn't mean it's easy. With her husband, Nephi, traveling as a ruler and a prophet, she often has to face her challenges alone. Now that the Gadianton robbers are threatening to plunge the city into complete chaos, Leila knows she'll have to defend her belief in the coming Christ, even if it means risking everything.
Pioneer Days in the Early Southwest
Author : Grant Foreman
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,60 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781017041880
Book Description
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