Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : August House Pub Incorporated
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874831375
Portrays the lighter side of American frontier history with anecdotes about such characters as Amelia Jenks Bloomer, who introduced the frontier garment bearing her name, and Joshua Norton, who declared himself emperor of the United States
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : august house
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874836752
Uses many sources to portray the diversity of the American frontier of the 1800s.
Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 29,51 MB
Release : 2022-08-08T22:59:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The war in the Pacific cost the army 57,137 lives. The Eighth Air Force suffered 26,000 airmen deaths in Europe, and the merchant marine lost 4,780 people when their ships sank or they were blown overboard. #2 The United States suffered a lot of civilian casualties during World War II, but compared to the countries that suffered the greatest slaughter, Russia, China, Germany, Poland, and Japan, it might seem like the United States got off easy. #3 The deaths of the Japanese military and civilians during World War II were tragic, but the Allied bombings of Japanese cities and the use of American B-29 Superfortresses to firebomb them was the deadliest night of the war, claiming more lives than Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki. #4 The final death toll for all countries lies between about 50 million and 100 million deaths. However many died, they were more than statistics on a sheet of paper.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 26,11 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1453274146
The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2012-12-25
Category : History
ISBN : 147110933X
As the railroads opened up the American West to settlers in the last half of the 19th Century, the Plains Indians made their final stand and cattle ranches spread from Texas to Montana. Eminent Western author Dee Brown here illuminates the struggle between these three groups as they fought for a place in this new landscape. The result is both a spirited national saga and an authoritative historical account of the drive for order in an uncharted wilderness, illustrated throughout with maps, photographs and ephemera from the period.
Author : Claudio Saunt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2014-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 039324430X
This panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies. In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that fateful year, the Spanish landed in San Francisco, the Russians pushed into Alaska to hunt valuable sea otters, and the Sioux discovered the Black Hills. Hailed by critics for challenging our conventional view of the birth of America, West of the Revolution “[coaxes] our vision away from the Atlantic seaboard” and “exposes a continent seething with peoples and purposes beyond Minutemen and Redcoats” (Wall Street Journal).
Author : Scott Weidensaul
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 25,18 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Modern dance
ISBN : 0151015155
Author : Melissa L. Cook
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2021-11-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781956413052
Melissa Cook shares her Alaska adventures, joys, struggles, and daily life in the Last Frontier with heart-pounding excitement and humor.
Author : Rob Storter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 21,80 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820330433
A visually stunning account of bygone days in the Everglades transports readers to the remote, half-wild frontier of southwest Florida in the early part of the twentieth century. Reprint.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1476627789
Western movies are full of images of swaggering outlaws brought to justice by valiant lawmen shooting them down in daring gunfights before riding off into the sunset. In reality it would not have happened that way. Real lawmen did not simply walk away from a gunfight--they had to face the legal system and justify shooting a civilian in the line of duty. Providing a more realistic view of criminal justice in the Old West, this history focuses on how criminals came into conflict with the law and how the law responded. The process is described in detail, from the common crimes of the day--such as train robbery and cattle theft--to the methods of apprehending criminals to their adjudication and punishment by incarceration, flogging or hanging.
