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Book Advancing the Frontier  1830 1860

Download or read book Advancing the Frontier 1830 1860 written by Grant Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Far Western Frontier  1830 1860

Download or read book The Far Western Frontier 1830 1860 written by Ray Allen Billington and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Dual objective[s] ... to describe, as thoroughly as space limitations permitted, both the movement of settlers into the Far West and the national or world events which directly influenced their migration ... second purpose: to advance evidence pertaining to the generations-old conflict over the so called : 'frontier hypothesis' ..."--Preface

Book Advancing the Frontier  1820 1860

Download or read book Advancing the Frontier 1820 1860 written by Grant Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Oklahoma  a History of Five Centuries

Download or read book Oklahoma a History of Five Centuries written by Arrell Morgan Gibson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the Oklahoma Collection.

Book The Frontier in American History

Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick J. Turner and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Book The Frontier in American History

Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-26 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a recent bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census for 1890 appear these significant words: "Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports." This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historic movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the Great West. The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement westward, explain American development.Behind institutions, behind constitutional forms and modifications, lie the vital forces that call these organs into life and shape them to meet changing conditions. The peculiarity of American institutions is, the fact that they have been compelled to adapt themselves to the changes of an expanding people--to the changes involved in crossing a continent, in winning a wilderness, and in developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier into the complexity of city life. Said Calhoun in 1817, "We are great, and rapidly--I was about to say fearfully--growing! So saying, he touched the distinguishing feature of American life. All peoples show development; the germ theory of politics has been sufficiently emphasized. In the case of most nations, however, the development has occurred in a limited area; and if the nation has expanded, it has met other growing peoples whom it has conquered. But in the case of the United States we have a different phenomenon. Limiting our attention to the Atlantic coast, we have the familiar phenomenon of the evolution of institutions in a limited area, such as the rise of representative government; the differentiation of simple colonial governments into complex organs; the progress from primitive industrial society, without division of labor, up to manufacturing civilization. But we have in addition to this a recurrence of the process of evolution in each western area reached in the process of expansion. Thus American development has exhibited not merely advance along a single line, but a return to primitive conditions on a continually advancing frontier line, and a new development for that area. American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character. The true point of view in the history of this nation is not the Atlantic coast, it is the Great West. Even the slavery struggle, which is made so exclusive an object of attention by writers like Professor von Holst, occupies its important place in American history because of its relation to westward expansion.In this advance, the frontier is the outer edge of the wave--the meeting point between savagery and civilization. Much has been written about the frontier from the point of view of border warfare and the chase, but as a field for the serious study of the economist and the historian it has been neglected.

Book An American Profession of Arms

Download or read book An American Profession of Arms written by William B. Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the formation of a regular army in 1784, a popular distruct of military power and the generally unsettled nature of national administration kept the army in a continual state of fluctuation, both in terms of organisation and size. Few officers were making a long-term commitment to military service. But by 1860, a professional army career was becoming a way of life. In that year, 41.5 percent of officers had served 30 years, compared to only 2.6 percent in 1797.

Book The Frontier in American History

Download or read book The Frontier in American History written by Frederick Jackson Turner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1961 with total page 2006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1 & 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - December)

Book Review of Current Military Literature

Download or read book Review of Current Military Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Advancing the Frontier  1830 1860

Download or read book Advancing the Frontier 1830 1860 written by Grant Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The United States Army Chaplaincy

Download or read book The United States Army Chaplaincy written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Struggling for Recognition

Download or read book Struggling for Recognition written by Herman Albert Norton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Stranger and a Sojourner

Download or read book A Stranger and a Sojourner written by Billy D. Higgins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary story of a pioneering African-American community leader is now told. After serving in the War of 1812, Peter Caulder, a free African-American settler in the Arkansas territory, has his life turned upside down on the eve of the Civil War.

Book Rivers of Sand

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher D. Haveman
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2016-02-01
  • ISBN : 0803284888
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Rivers of Sand written by Christopher D. Haveman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory through treaties and by the unchecked intrusion of white settlers who illegally expropriated Native soil. With the Jackson administration unwilling to aid the Creeks in removing the squatters, the Creek people suffered from dispossession, starvation, and indebtedness. Between the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and the forced migrations beginning in 1836, nearly twenty-three thousand Creek Indians were relocated—voluntarily or involuntarily—to Indian Territory. Rivers of Sand fills a substantial gap in scholarship by capturing, for the first time, the full breadth and depth of the Creeks’ collective tragedy during the marches westward, on the Creek home front, and during the first years of resettlement. Unlike the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which was conducted largely at the end of a bayonet, most Creeks were removed through a combination of coercion and negotiation. Hopelessly outnumbered military personnel were forced to make concessions in order to gain the compliance of the headmen and their people. Christopher D. Haveman’s meticulous study uses previously unexamined documents to weave narratives of resistance and survival, making Rivers of Sand an essential addition to the ethnohistory of American Indian removal.

Book A Nation Moving West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert W. Richmond
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book A Nation Moving West written by Robert W. Richmond and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facets of the pioneer experience on the changing American frontier from the Revolution to 1900.

Book Painting Texas History to 1900

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  • Author : Sam DeShong Ratcliffe
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-11-06
  • ISBN : 0292785976
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Painting Texas History to 1900 written by Sam DeShong Ratcliffe and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History, 1994 T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical Commission, 1992 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 1993 Dramatic historical events have frequently provided subject matter for artists, particularly in pre-twentieth-century Texas, where works portraying historical, often legendary, events and individuals predominated. Until now, however, these paintings of Texas history have never received the kind of study given to historical, fictional, and film versions of the same events. Painting Texas History to 1900 fills this gap with an interdisciplinary approach that explores these paintings both as works of art and as historical documents. The author examines the works of more than forty artists, including Henry McArdle, Theodore Gentilz, Robert Onderdonk, William Huddle, Frederic Remington, Friedrich Richard Petri, Arthur T. Lee, Seth Eastman, Sarah Hardinge, Frank Reaugh, W. G. M. Samuel, Carl G. von Iwonski, and Julius Stockfleth. He places each work within its historical and cultural context to show why such subject matter was chosen, why it was depicted in a particular way, and why such a depiction gained popular acceptance. For example, paintings of heroic events of the Texas Revolution were especially popular in the years following the Civil War, when, in Ratcliffe's view, Texans needed such images to assuage the loss of the war and the humiliation of Reconstruction. Though the paintings cut across traditional art history categories—from the pictographs of early historic Indians to European-inspired oil paintings—they are bound together by their artists' intent for them to function as historically evocative documents. With their visual narratives of events that characterized all of America's westward expansion—Indian encounters, military battles, farming, ranching, surveying, and the closing of the frontier—these works add an important chapter to the story of the American West.