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Period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings are used to provide a history of the Fur Trade Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816.
Author : Myrna Kostash
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Fur trade
ISBN : 9781926455532
Period accounts and journals, histories, memoirs, songs and fictional retellings are used to provide a history of the Fur Trade Wars, with a focus on the Battle of Seven Oaks in 1816.
Author : Lawrence J. Barkwell
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2010-01
Category : Seven Oaks, Battle of, Man., 1816
ISBN : 9780980991291
Author : Gustavus Woodson Smith
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Fair Oaks, Battle of, Va., 1862
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 12,95 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fur trade
ISBN :
Author : George Colpitts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,96 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107044901
Pemmican Empire explores the fascinating and little-known environmental history of the role of pemmican (bison fat) in the opening of the British-American West.
Author : Marc R. Matrana
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1604736399
Along the fertile banks of the Mississippi River across from New Orleans, planter Camille Zeringue transformed a mediocre colonial plantation into a thriving gem of antebellum sugar production, complete with a columned mansion known as Seven Oaks. Under the moss-strewn oaks, the privileged master nurtured his own family, but enslaved many others. Excelling at agriculture, business, an ambitious canal enterprise, and local politics, Zeringue ascended to the very pinnacle of southern society. But his empire soon came crashing down. After the ravages of the Civil War and a nasty battle with a railroad company the family eventually lost the great estate. Seven Oaks ultimately ended up in the hands of distant railroad executives whose only desire was to rid themselves of this heap of history. Lost Plantation: The Rise and Fall of Seven Oaks tells both of Zeringue's climb to the top and of his legacy's eventual ruin. Preservationists and community members abhorred the railroad's indifferent attitude, and the question of the plantation mansion's fate fueled years of fiery, political battles. These hard-fought confrontations ended in 1977 when the exasperated railroad executives sent bulldozers through the decaying house. By analyzing one failed effort, Lost Plantation provides insight into the complex workings of American historical preservation efforts as a whole, while illustrating how southerners deal with their multifaceted past. The rise and fall of Seven Oaks is much more than just a local tragedy-it is a glaring example of how any community can be robbed of its history. Now, as parishes around New Orleans recognize the great aesthetic and monetary value of restoring plantation homes and attracting tourism, Jefferson Parish mourns a manor lost. Marc R. Matrana, Westwego, Louisiana, is a local historian and preservationist. See the author's site.
Author : Katherena Vermette
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1553797353
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place—a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie—and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars. Pemmican Wars is the first graphic novel in a new series, A Girl Called Echo, by Governor General Award–winning writer, and author of Highwater Press’ The Seven Teaching Stories, Katherena Vermette.
Author : James Longstreet
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 1895
Category : United States
ISBN :
Donated by Lloyd Miller.
Author : Irene Gordon
Publisher : Heritage Amazing Stories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Seven Oaks, Battle of, Man., 1816
ISBN : 9781554390250
Chronicles the struggle between the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company, out of which the Red River settlement (and later, Winnipeg) was born.
Author : Jim Stempel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786485604
It is commonly accepted that the South could never have won the Civil War. By chronicling perhaps the best of the South's limited opportunities to turn the tide, this provocative study argues that Confederate victory was indeed possible. On June 30, 1862, at a small Virginia crossroads known as Glendale, Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee sliced the retreating Army of the Potomac in two and came remarkably close to destroying their Federal foe. Only a string of command miscues on the part of the Confederates--and a stunning command failure by Stonewall Jackson--enabled the Union army to escape a defeat that day, one that may well have vaulted the South to its independence. Never before or after would the Confederacy come as close to transforming American history as it did at the Battle of Glendale.