Book Description
An index of sources, illustrations, etc used in the Early western travels, 1748-1846 series.
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN :
An index of sources, illustrations, etc used in the Early western travels, 1748-1846 series.
Author : Reuben Gold Thwaites
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 24,18 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Mississippi River Valley
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Author : Colton Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Americana
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Author : Elliott West
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826316530
Elegantly assembles the environmental, social, cultural, political, and economic history of the Great Plains in the 19th century.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 1899
Category : America
ISBN :
Author : Elliott West
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 33,98 MB
Release : 1998-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0700610294
Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs, and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. The Contested Plains recounts the rise of the Native American horse culture, white Americans' discovery and pursuit of gold in the Rocky Mountains, and the wrenching changes and bitter conflicts that ensued. After centuries of many peoples fashioning many cultures on the plains, the Cheyennes and other tribes found in the horse the power to create a heroic way of life that dominated one of the world's great grasslands. Then the discovery of gold challenged that way of life and led finally to the infamous massacre at Sand Creek and the Indian Wars of the late 1860s. Illuminating both the ancient and more recent history of the plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, West weaves together a brilliant tapestry interlaced with environmental, social, and military history. He treats the "frontier" not as a morally loaded term-either in the traditional celebratory sense or the more recent critical sense-but as a powerfully unsettling process that shattered an old world. He shows how Indians, goldseekers, haulers, merchants, ranchers, and farmers all contributed to and in turn were consumed by this process, even as the plains themselves were utterly transformed by the clash of cultures and competing visions. Exciting and enormously engaging, The Contested Plains is the first book to examine the Colorado gold rush as the key event in the modern transformation of the central great plains. It also exemplifies a kind of history that respects more fully our rich and ambiguous past--a past in which there are many actors but no simple lessons.
Author : Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Library
Publisher :
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 1971
Category : British Columbia
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Author : Arthur H. Clark Company
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
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Author : E. W. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 39,16 MB
Release : 2013-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1107683696
This book, first published in 1933, discusses the exploration of the western area of what became the United States.