Trail and Trading Post
Author : Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Edward Stratemeyer
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Will Evans
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 25,91 MB
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1457174898
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.
Author : Edward Stratemeyer
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Page : pages
File Size : 50,88 MB
Release : 2020
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Author : Walter McClintock
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 35,1 MB
Release : 1999-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803282582
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.
Author : Susan Butcher
Publisher : University of Alaska Press
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0975402900
During a raging Arctic blizzard, Granite helps Susan and the rest of the dogs brave the storm and win the Iditarod.
Author : Harold L. James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2011
Category : California
ISBN : 9781893061088
"Bruff's Wake tells the story of forty-niners who survived hardship with resolve and endurance. The accompanying illustrations, which include a number of Bruff's sketches paired with modern photographs taken at the same sites, give vivid depictions of life and death on the California Trail in 1849. In addition, Bruff's route is correlated to the geography of the modern era, so that the trail can be traced on modern maps. Taken together, the narrative, sketches, photographs, and geological descriptions of the terrain, coupled with generous quotes from Bruff's long-out-of-print journal, allow the reader to follow in Bruff's wake" -- Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Author : Louis L'Amour
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553899627
In Ride the Dark Trail, Louis L’Amour tells the story of Logan Sackett, a cynical drifter who changes his ways to help a widow keep her land. Logan Sackett is wild and rootless, riding west in search of easy living. Then he meets Emily Talon, a fiery old widow who is even wilder than he is. Tall and lean, Em is determined to defend herself against the jealous locals who are trying to take her home. Logan doesn’t want to get involved—until he finds out that Em was born a Sackett. Em is bucking overwhelming odds, but Logan won’t let her stand alone. For even the rebellious drifter knows that part of being a Sackett is backing up your family when they need you.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,60 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Outdoor recreation for children
ISBN : 9780160946363
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2010
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Author : Winton Porter
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 23,14 MB
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0897328493
Like a well-crafted stage play, Just Passin' Thru delivers one suspenseful scene after another. But in this historic setting — a store on the Appalachian Trail called Mountain Crossings — the characters who show up are no fictional creations. They are the real-life stars of the author’s new life as a backpack-purging, canteen-selling, hostel-running, bandage-taping, lost-child finding, argument-settling, romance-fixing, chili-making man of many faces. Like any good drama, there are the good guys (and gals) and the weirdos, too. Some show up once (and that’s enough), and some appear again and again. Some are friends, and some dangerous. But all are united by two things: the author’s story-capturing talent, and whatever it is that lures them to attempt (or conquer) a 2,200-mile path that climbs and plummets from Georgia to Maine.