A New and Complete Statistical Gazetteer of the United States of America
Author : Richard Swainson Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Names, Geographical
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Author : Richard Swainson Fisher
Publisher :
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 17,73 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Names, Geographical
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 1970
Category : United States
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Author : Richard L. Forstall
Publisher : National Technical Information Services (NTIS)
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,67 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
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Report provides the total population for each of the nation's 3,141 counties from 1990 back to the first census in which the county appeared.
Author : National Archives Trust Fund Board
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 12,28 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Archives
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Author : National Archives (U.S.)
Publisher :
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 24,60 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Archives
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Author : Jessica S. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN :
"This two-volume work ... with its almost 8,900 abstracts and annotations of articles drawn from an international list of over 500 periodicals dealing with history and related disciplines published between 1974 and 1984 ... "Introduction, p. viii.
Author : Helen Chapman
Publisher : Texas State Historical Association
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Of their times and their roles in the founding of a significant Texas city on the Mexican border. Readers interested in the history of the military, Texas and the Southwest, women and minorities, and domestic life on the frontier will find this to be an invaluable addition to the literature of the American experience. The editor, a fifth generation descendant of the Chapmans, drew these letters from an extensive collection of family papers dating from the American.
Author : Dan Worrall
Publisher : Dan Michael Worrall
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0982599625
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.
Author : Frank Lawrence Owsley
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 11,87 MB
Release : 2008-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807133422
First published in 1949, Frank Lawrence Owsley’s Plain Folk of the Old South refuted the popular myth that the antebellum South contained only three classes—planters, poor whites, and slaves. Owsley draws on a wide range of source materials—firsthand accounts such as diaries and the published observations of travelers and journalists; church records; and county records, including wills, deeds, tax lists, and grand-jury reports—to accurately reconstruct the prewar South’s large and significant “yeoman farmer” middle class. He follows the history of this group, beginning with their migration from the Atlantic states into the frontier South, charts their property holdings and economic standing, and tells of the rich texture of their lives: the singing schools and corn shuckings, their courtship rituals and revival meetings, barn raisings and logrollings, and contests of marksmanship and horsemanship such as “snuffing the candle,” “driving the nail,” and the “gander pull.” A new introduction by John B. Boles explains why this book remains the starting point today for the study of society in the Old South.
Author : David L. Ames
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture, Domestic
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