Download or read book When Money Grew on Trees written by Greg Gordon and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his death in 1934, Hammond had built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron. Although he began his career as a pioneer entrepreneur, Hammond, unlike many of his associates, successfully negotiated the transition to corporate businessman. Against the backdrop of western expansion and nation-building, his life dramatically demonstrates how individuals—more than the impersonal forces of political economy—shaped capitalism in this country, and in doing so, transformed the forests of the West from functioning natural ecosystems into industrial landscapes. In revealing Hammond’s instrumental role in converting the nation’s public domain into private wealth, historian Greg Gordon also shows how the struggle over natural resources gave rise to the two most pervasive forces in modern American life: the federal government and the modern corporation. Combining environmental, labor, and business history with biography, When Money Grew on Trees challenges the conventional view that the development and exploitation of the western United States was dictated from the East Coast. The West, Gordon suggests, was perfectly capable of exploiting itself, and in his book we see how Hammond and other regional entrepreneurs dammed rivers, logged forests, and leveled mountains in just a few decades. Hammond and his like also built cities, towns, and a vast transportation network of steamships and railroads to export natural resources and import manufactured goods. In short, they established much of the modern American state and economy.
Download or read book The Chronicles of the Old West 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West written by Emerson Hough and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2024-01-15 with total page 979 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerson Hough's 'The Chronicles of the Old West' is a collection of four historical books that delve deep into the wild past of the American West, offering readers a vivid and immersive journey through the rugged terrain and tumultuous times of the frontier. Hough's literary style is characterized by meticulous attention to historical detail and a keen sense of storytelling that captures the essence of the era, making the narratives come alive with vivid imagery and rich character development. The books are not merely a recounting of events, but a deep exploration of the human experience in the untamed wilderness of the West, showcasing the triumphs and tribulations of pioneers, outlaws, and indigenous peoples alike. Hough's work stands as a significant contribution to Western literature, shedding light on a pivotal period in American history that continues to captivate readers today. Recommended for history enthusiasts, lovers of Western fiction, and anyone seeking a compelling and authentic portrayal of the Old West.
Download or read book The Passing of the Frontier A Chronicle of the Old West written by Emerson Hough and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Passing of the Frontier is a book about post-Civil War history. This detailed, informational novel showcases such engaging topics as the gold rush, outlaws, and the wild western frontier. Excerpt: "The frontier! There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase..."
Download or read book Passing of the Frontier written by Emerson Hough and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Midwesterner Emerson Hough nurtured a life-long interest in the Wild West, and after receiving his law degree, he set up shop as an attorney in a rural town in New Mexico. Based on his experiences in the region, he penned a series of histories of the Old West. This volume contains a series of insightful essays about the meaning of the frontier and the pioneer spirit.
Download or read book A Most Desperate Situation written by Walter Cooper and published by Falcon Guides. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of western stories illustrated by photos and 11 never-before-published C.M. Russell pen and inks.
Download or read book Race and the Wild West written by Laura J. Arata and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Western Writers of America “SPUR Award” and the Western Association of Women Historians “Gita Chaudhuri Prize”! Born a slave in eastern Tennessee, Sarah Blair Bickford (1852–1931) made her way while still a teenager to Montana Territory, where she settled in the mining boomtown of Virginia City. Race and the Wild West is the first full-length biography of this remarkable woman, whose life story affords new insight into race and belonging in the American West around the turn of the twentieth century. For many years, Sarah Bickford’s known biography fit into a single paragraph. By examining her life in all its complexity, Arata fills in what were long believed to be unrecoverable “silent spaces” in her story. Before establishing herself as a successful business owner, we learn, she was twice married, both times to white men. Her first husband, an Irish immigrant, physically abused her until she divorced him in 1881. Their three children all died before the age of ten. In 1883, she married Stephen Bickford and gave birth to four more children. Upon his death, she inherited his shares of the Virginia City Water Company, acquiring sole ownership in 1917. For the final decade of her life, Bickford actively preserved and promoted a historic Virginia City building best known as the site of the brutal lynching in 1864 of five men. Her conspicuous role in developing an early form of heritage tourism challenges long-standing narratives that place white men at the center of the “Wild West” myth and its promotion. Bickford’s story offers a window into the dynamics of race in the rural West. Although her experiences defy easy categorization, what is clear is that her navigation of social norms and racial barriers did not hinge on exceptionalism or tokenism. Instead, she built a life that deserves to be understood on its own terms. Through exhaustive research and nuanced analysis, Laura J. Arata advances our understanding of a woman whose life embodied the contradictory intersections of hope and disappointment that characterized life in the early-twentieth-century American West for brave pioneers of many races.
Download or read book The Journals and Letters of Major John Owen Pioneer of the Northwest 1850 1871 written by John Owen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owen was an early resident of the Bitterroot Valley and served at agent to the Indians of Western Montana in the 1860's. Includes many short references to Flathead and Kootenai Indians with information on their enemies, treaties, and removals from aborignal territories.
Download or read book The Chronicles of the Yellowstone written by Eugene Sayre Topping and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book Genealogist s Address Book 6th Edition written by Elizabeth Petty Bentley and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the answer to the perennial question, "What's out there in the world of genealogy?" What organizations, institutions, special resources, and websites can help me? Where do I write or phone or send e-mail? Once again, Elizabeth Bentley's Address Book answers these questions and more. Now in its 6th edition, The Genealogist's Address Book gives you access to all the key sources of genealogical information, providing names, addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, e-mail addresses, websites, names of contact persons, and other pertinent information for more than 27,000 organizations, including libraries, archives, societies, government agencies, vital records offices, professional bodies, publications, research centers, and special interest groups.
Download or read book Bluecoat and Pioneer written by John Benton Hart and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1918, urged on by his son Harry, John Benton Hart began to tell stories of a three-year period in his youth. He recalled his days as a trooper in the Eleventh Kansas Cavalry, fighting in Missouri and on the frontier, and his time as a civilian jack-of-all-trades doing risky work for the U.S. Army on the Wyoming-Montana Bozeman Trail in the middle of the Indian resistance campaign known as Red Cloud’s War. Once started, John Benton Hart became an enthusiastic raconteur, describing events with an almost cinematic vividness, while his son, an aspiring writer, documented his father’s testimony in what became several manuscripts. Compiled and reproduced here, edited by historian John Hart, John Benton Hart’s great-grandson, this memoir is a singular document of living history. As a young Kansas cavalryman, John Benton Hart participated in two momentous episodes of the Civil War era—Sterling Price’s Missouri Expedition of 1864, including the Battle of Westport, and such engagements in the Plains Indian Wars as the Battle of Platte Bridge in July 1865 and the Hayfield Fight near Fort C. F. Smith in 1867. In the engaging style of a natural storyteller, Hart re-creates these events as he experienced them, giving readers a rare glimpse at moments of historical import from the point of view of the “ordinary” soldier. In arresting detail, he also tells of crossing the Plains as a bullwhacker, carrying the mail between the beleaguered forts on the Bozeman Trail, and befriending scout Jim Bridger and Mountain Crow Chief Blackfoot. Framed and supplemented with the editor’s biographical, historical, and explanatory notes, Hart’s memoir offers a new perspective on events long fixed in the historical imagination. As history writ large or on a personal scale, Bluecoat and Pioneer tells a remarkable story.
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