The Far West in American history. Far Western frontiers
Author : Harvey Lewis Carter
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Harvey Lewis Carter
Publisher :
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 18,54 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Ray Allen Billington
Publisher :
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1956
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826315854
Traces the shaping of the West by frontiersmen from diverse cultural and political backgrounds who had to adapt to new ways of living
Author : Elliott West
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826311559
This illustrated study shows how frontier life shaped children's character.
Author : Harvey L. Carter
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 25,54 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1434454037
Author : Harvey Lewis Carter
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 1972
Category : History
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Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2016-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0816534136
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Author : Cynthia Culver Prescott
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0816549451
As her family traveled the Oregon Trail in 1852, Mary Ellen Todd taught herself to crack the ox whip. Though gender roles often blurred on the trail, families quickly tried to re-establish separate roles for men and women once they had staked their claims. For Mary Ellen Todd, who found a “secret joy in having the power to set things moving,” this meant trading in the ox whip for the more feminine butter churn. In Gender and Generation on the Far Western Frontier, Cynthia Culver Prescott expertly explores the shifting gender roles and ideologies that countless Anglo-American settlers struggled with in Oregon’s Willamette Valley between 1845 and 1900. Drawing on traditional social history sources as well as divorce records, married women’s property records, period photographs, and material culture, Prescott reveals that Oregon settlers pursued a moving target of middle-class identity in the second half of the nineteenth century. Prescott traces long-term ideological changes, arguing that favorable farming conditions enabled Oregon families to progress from accepting flexible frontier roles to participating in a national consumer culture in only one generation. As settlers’ children came of age, participation in this new culture of consumption and refined leisure became the marker of the middle class. Middle-class culture shifted from the first generation’s emphasis on genteel behavior to a newer genteel consumption. This absorbing volume reveals the shifting boundaries of traditional women’s spheres, the complicated relationships between fathers and sons, and the second generation’s struggle to balance their parents’ ideology with a changing national sense of class consciousness.
Author : Frederic Logan Paxson
Publisher :
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,74 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Rodman Wilson Paul
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060158361
In this book, his final work, Rodman W. Paul explores the settlement of the American West in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Lured by stories of open spaces, fertile farming, & grazing lands & by the attraction of gold & silver, people from many nations traveled westward by the thousands. Early migrants rode in stagecoaches & Conestoga wagons; their successors, on the transcontinental railroads, which linked western cities with their eastern counterparts. This comprehensive history describes not only population movement & mining development but also banking, farming, ranching, & other economic ventures. In a new foreword, Martin Ridge places Paul's history in the context of contemporary scholarship. "Paul has given us an authoritative, indeed a brilliant, history of the Far West & the Great Plains as he saw it, through the lens of miners, businessmen, & immigrants." - JOURNAL OF AMERICAN HISTORY. Rodman W. Paul was Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena & the foremost historian of mining in the West. Among his many books are CALIFORNIA GOLD, MINING FRONTIERS OF THE FAR WEST, 1848-1880, & THE FRONTIER & THE AMERICAN WEST. Martin Ridge, who originally saw Paul's work through the press, is also a Professor of History at the California Institute of Technology & the author of WESTWARD EXPANSION: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER.
Author : Frederick Jackson Turner
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :