Author : E. W. Gilbert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 32,18 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.
Author : Gary Allen Hood
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780806199597
More than sixty paintings, drawings, and prints inspired during the sixty-five years of exploration in the West after the Corps of Discovery completed its epic journey are featured in this collection of historical artwork by George Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Seth Eastman, Charles Bird King, and other notable artists of the nineteenth-century American West.
Author : P. Scott Corbett
Publisher :
Page : 1886 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2024-09-10
Category : History
ISBN :
U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.
Author : Edmund William Gilbert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,49 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN :
Author : Harvey L. Carter
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1434454037
Author : John Logan Allen
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,64 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486269146
The author traces how Lewis and Clark's epic journey of 1804–06 and their charting of the American Northwest dramatically revised generally held concepts of the area's geography. With 45 maps. "Splendidly researched and highly readable" — Donald Jackson, editor of the Letters of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Author : Brian W. Blouet
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 27,66 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803208391
Sixteen papers by foremost American, Canadian, and English historical geographers examine the sources of Imagery of the American and Canadian Great Plains, the processes of image formation, and the behavioral implications of various kinds of images. The papers deal with exploratory images of the Plains, resource evaluation in the prefrontier West, governmental appraisal of the western frontier, real and imagined climatic hazards, the desert and garden myths, and adaptations to reality.
Author : Gordon Morris Bakken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 11,91 MB
Release : 2010-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1136931597
The World of the American West is an innovative collection of original essays that brings the world of the American West to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing region. Twenty scholars incorporate the freshest research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn "Cowboys and Indians" stereotype right up into the major issues being discussed today, from water rights to the presence of the defense industry. Other topics covered in this heavily illustrated, highly accessible volume include the effects of leisure and tourism, western women, politics and politicians, Native Americans in the twentieth century, and of course, oil. With insight both informative and unexpected, The World of the American West offers perspectives on the latest developments affecting the modern American West, providing essential reading for all scholars and students of the field so that they may better understand the vibrant history of this globally significant, ever-evolving region of North America.
Author : Everett Eugene Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : William Turrentine Jackson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 1979
Category :
ISBN :
