Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820 written by Edwin James and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the Years 1819 and 1820 written by Edwin James and published by Upton Press. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Download or read book A Journal of Travels Into the Arkansas Territory During the Year 1819 written by and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall's only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. Covering his travels in Arkansas and what is now Oklahoma, it is pivotal to an understanding of the Old Southwest in the early nineteenth century, when the United States was taking inventory of its acquisitions from the Louisiana Purchase. The account follows Nuttall's route from Philadelphia to Pittsburg, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River. It is filled with valuable details on the plants, animals, and geology of the region, as well as penetrating observations of the resident native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement. Originally published in 1980 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this fine edited version of Nuttall's work boasts a valuable introduction, notes, maps, and bibliography by Savoie Lottinville. The editor provided common names for those given in scientific classification and substituted modern genus and species names for the ones used originally by Nuttall. The resulting journal is a delight to read for anyone--historian, researcher, visitor, resident, or enthusiast.

Download or read book ROCKY MOUNTAINS written by Edwin James and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, an official US Army expedition was mounted to explore the virgin American territory of the Midwest up to the Rocky Mountains. The result was a gruelling, two-year adventure among the Sioux, Cheyenne and other Indian Plains tribes, not to mention natural obstacles and dangers. The author of this book, Edwin James, was the expedition's botanist, geologist and surgeon - and, as his book proves, his many skills also embraced the writing of a fine historical narrative. The expedition commander, Major Stephen H. Long was ordered to explore and chart the Red and Arkansas rivers, as well as the Colorado Rockies where one mountain they found still bears the name Long's Peak in his honour. Among the goals achieved by the expedition was finding the site of today's Denver, and reaching the Colorado Springs. As a result of mistaking the Canada River for the Red, one branch of the expedition strayed into New Mexico and Texas, where they nearly starved and were the first white men to meet members of the KIowa and Apache Indian tribes. Although Long failed to find the sources of the two rivers he was sent to explore, his expedition remains an important milestone in opening up the American west.

Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains written by and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1823 account of a major government sponsored expedition to the Western lands, by steamboat down the Ohio, then up the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, intending to reach Yellowstone. The team's botanist and geologist Edwin James compiled the account from the journals of its commander Maj. Long, Thomas Say and other members of the party. The expedition produced the first scientific data on the flora and fauna of the general area of the Santa Fe Trail.

Download or read book ROCKY MOUNTAINS written by Edwin James and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, an official US Army expedition was mounted to explore the virgin American territory of the Midwest up to the Rocky Mountains. The result was a gruelling, two-year adventure among the Sioux, Cheyenne and other Indian Plains tribes, not to mention natural obstacles and dangers. The author of this book, Edwin James, was the expedition's botanist, geologist and surgeon - and, as his book proves, his many skills also embraced the writing of a fine historical narrative. The expedition commander, Major Stephen H. Long was ordered to explore and chart the Red and Arkansas rivers, as well as the Colorado Rockies where one mountain they found still bears the name Long's Peak in his honour. Among the goals achieved by the expedition was finding the site of today's Denver, and reaching the Colorado Springs. As a result of mistaking the Canada River for the Red, one branch of the expedition strayed into New Mexico and Texas, where they nearly starved and were the first white men to meet members of the KIowa and Apache Indian tribes. Although Long failed to find the sources of the two rivers he was sent to explore, his expedition remains an important milestone in opening up the American west.

Download or read book Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains Performed in the Years 1819 1820 by Order of J C Calhoun Under the Command of S H Long written by Stephen Harriman Long and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ROCKY MOUNTAINS written by Edwin James and published by Naval & Military Press. This book was released on 2016-10-24 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1819, an official US Army expedition was mounted to explore the virgin American territory of the Midwest up to the Rocky Mountains. The result was a gruelling, two-year adventure among the Sioux, Cheyenne and other Indian Plains tribes, not to mention natural obstacles and dangers. The author of this book, Edwin James, was the expedition's botanist, geologist and surgeon - and, as his book proves, his many skills also embraced the writing of a fine historical narrative. The expedition commander, Major Stephen H. Long was ordered to explore and chart the Red and Arkansas rivers, as well as the Colorado Rockies where one mountain they found still bears the name Long's Peak in his honour. Among the goals achieved by the expedition was finding the site of today's Denver, and reaching the Colorado Springs. As a result of mistaking the Canada River for the Red, one branch of the expedition strayed into New Mexico and Texas, where they nearly starved and were the first white men to meet members of the KIowa and Apache Indian tribes. Although Long failed to find the sources of the two rivers he was sent to explore, his expedition remains an important milestone in opening up the American west.

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Newberry Library and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968-11 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the remarkable breadth of interest, knowledge, and taste of a great bibliophile and student of Western American history. From this rich collection, now in The Newberry Library, Chicago, its former Curator, Colton Storm, has compiled a discriminating and representative Catalogue of the rarer and more unusual materials. Collectors, bibliographers, librarians, historians, and book dealers specializing in Americana will find the Graff Catalogue an interesting and essential tool. Detailed collations and binding descriptions are cited, and many of the more important works have been annotated by Mr. Graff and Mr. Storm. An extensive index of persons and subjects makes the book useful to the scholar as well as to the collector and dealer. The book is not a bibliography but rather a guide to rare or unique source materials now enriching The Newberry Library's outstanding holdings in American history.

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Download or read book A History of Livestock Raising in the United States 1607 1860 written by James Westfall Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explorers of the American West written by Jay H. Buckley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With original primary source documents, this anthology brings readers into the vast unknown 19th-century American West—through the eyes of the explorers who saw it for the first time. This volume brings together book excerpts, maps, and illustrations from 12 explorers from the 19th century, highlighting their lives and contributions. Arranged chronologically, the 10 chapters focus on individual explorers, with biographies and background information about and document excerpts from each person. The chapters offer analyses of each document's relevance to the historical period, geographic knowledge, and cultural perspective. This guide shares the important contributions from explorers like Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Jedediah Smith, James P. Beckwourth, John C. Fremont, Susan Magoffin, and John Wesley Powell. It also nurtures readers' historical literacy by modeling historians' methods of analyzing primary sources. Readers will see new and familiar events from different perspectives, including that of a woman traveling along the Santa Fe Trail, one of the most famous African American mountain men, and a Civil War veteran, among many others.

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Download or read book The Exploration of Western America 1800 1850 written by E. W. Gilbert and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1933, discusses the exploration of the western area of what became the United States.

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