Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by R. A. Rees and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines life in the American West, from the time when American Indians flourished, through the spread of white settlers to the close of the frontier and the end of the battle for the Plains.
Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by Dave Martin and published by Hodder Murray. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretch and challenge your students with SHP's longest-lived and best-selling series for GCSE History.
Download or read book Slavery and the American West written by Michael A. Morrison and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the sectionalization of American politics in the 1840s and 1850s, Michael Morrison offers a comprehensive study of how slavery and territorial expansion intersected as causes of the Civil War. Specifically, he argues that the common heritage of the American Revolution bound Americans together until disputes over the extension of slavery into the territories led northerners and southerners to increasingly divergent understandings of the Revolution's legacy. Manifest Destiny promised the literal enlargement of freedom through the extension of American institutions all the way to the Pacific. At each step--from John Tyler's attempt to annex Texas in 1844, to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to the opening shots of the Civil War--the issue of slavery had to be confronted. Morrison shows that the Revolution was the common prism through which northerners and southerners viewed these events and that the factor that ultimately made consensus impossible was slavery itself. By 1861, no nationally accepted solution to the dilemma of slavery in the territories had emerged, no political party existed as a national entity, and politicians from both North and South had come to believe that those on the other side had subverted the American political tradition.
Download or read book The American West written by Dee Brown and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned storyteller Dee Brown, author of the bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, recreates the struggles of Native Americans, settlers, and ranchers in this stunning volume that illuminates the history of the old West that’s filled with maps and vintage photographs. Beginning with the demise of the Native Americans of the Plains, Brown depicts the onrush of the burgeoning cattle trade and the waves of immigrants who ultimately “settled” the land. In the retelling of this oft-told saga, Brown has demonstrated once again his abilities as a master storyteller and an entertaining popular historian. By turns heroic, tragic, and even humorous, The American West brings to life American tragedy and triumph in the years from 1840 to the turn of the century, and a roster of characters both great and small: Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, Dull Knife, Crazy Horse, Captain Jack, John H. Tunstall, Billy the Kid, Pat Garrett, Wyatt Earp, the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, Wild Bill Hickok, Charles Goodnight, Oliver Loving, Buffalo Bill, and many others. The American West is about cattle and the railroads; it is about settlers who came to claim a land not originally their own and how they slowly imposed law and order on these wild and untamed places; and it is about the wanton destruction of the Native American way of life. This is epic history at its best and popular history at its most readable. This new work is culled from Dee Brown’s highly acclaimed writings, which instantly established him as one of America’s foremost Western authorities. Fully revised, rewritten, and edited into one seamless account of America’s most famous frontier, this epic narrative, along with the introduction and a chronological table of events, etches an unforgettable and poignant portrait. The American West is at once a tribute to the West and a majestic new peak for a writer whose long and successful career has been synonymous with excellence in frontier history.
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Download or read book Translating Property written by María E. Montoya and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2005-05-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When American settlers arrived in the southwestern borderlands, they assumed that the land was unencumbered by property claims. But, as María Montoya shows, the Southwest was no empty quarter simply waiting to be parceled up. Although Anglo farmers claimed absolute rights under the Homestead Act, their claims were contested by Native Americans who had lived on the land for generations, Mexican magnates like Lucien Maxwell who controlled vast parcels under grants from Mexican governors, and foreign companies who thought they had purchased open land. The result was that the Southwest inevitably became a battleground between land regimes with radically different cultural concepts. The struggle over the Maxwell Land Grant, a 1.7-million-acre tract straddling New Mexico and Colorado, demonstrates how contending parties reinterpreted the meaning of property to uphold their claims to the land. Montoya reveals how those claims, with their deep historical and racial roots, have been addressed to the satisfaction of some and the bitter frustration of others. Translating Property describes how European and American investors effectively mistranslated prior property regimes into new rules that worked to their own advantage--and against those who had lived on the land previously. Montoya explores the legal, political, and cultural battles that swept across the Southwest as this land was drawn into world market systems. She shows that these legal issues still have real meaning for thousands of Mexican Americans who continue to fight for land granted to their families before the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, or for continuing communal access to land now claimed by others. This new edition of Montoya’s book brings the land grant controversy up to date. A year after its original publication, the Colorado Supreme Court tried once more to translate Mexican property ideals into the U.S. system of legal rights; and in 2004 the Government Accounting Office issued the federal government’s most comprehensive effort to sort out the tangled history of land rights, concluding that Congress was under no obligation to compensate heirs of land grants. Montoya recaps these recent developments, further expanding our understanding of the battles over property rights and the persistence of inequality in the Southwest.
Download or read book The American West 1840 95 written by Robin Wichard and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 1998 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the nature of the Great Plains, the beliefs and lifestyle of the Plains Indians and the reasons for, and impact of, white settlement on the Plains. Other topics include the life and work of cowboys, law and order, and farming the Plains. The ultimate struggle for dominance of the territories is given coverage and the investigations encourage an evaluation and understanding of the reasons for conflict. Major events such as Sand Creek and the Plains Wars, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the final destruction of Indian resistance at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 are all studied. Also included are broad perspectives on the impact of government and the railways on the American West.
Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by Mike Mellor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-06-04 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book meets the requirements of the Study in Depth part of SHP (Schools History Project) GCSE History syllabuses. It concentrates on the way the American West was settled and developed by various groups of people between 1840 and 1895, and the impact of this settlement on the Native American peoples. Through enquiry based investigations the book explores the reasons for the settlement of the American West, the conflicts which resulted from the clash of different cultures and life styles, and the consequences of these conflicts.
Download or read book The American West written by Marjorie Godfrey and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series designed to meet the requirements of the revised GCSE syllabuses, this foundation pupil's book for lower attainers looks at the American West. It contains exam practice questions at the end of each unit and a simplified version of the contents of the core pupil's book.
Download or read book The Plains Across written by John D. Unruh and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most honored book ever released by the University of Illinois Press, The Plains Across was the result of more than a decade's work by its author. Here, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Oregon Trail, is a paperback reissue that includes the notes, bibliography, and illustrations contained in the 1979 cloth edition.
Download or read book Taking Land Breaking Land written by Glenda Riley and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Download or read book Go West Young Man Westward Expansion 1840 1900 written by The Open The Open Courses Library and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 U.S. History In the middle of the nineteenth century, farmers in the "Old West"--the land across the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania--began to hear about the opportunities to be found in the "New West." They had long believed that the land west of the Mississippi was a great desert, unfit for human habitation. But now, the federal government was encouraging them to join the migratory stream westward to this unknown land. For a variety of reasons, Americans increasingly felt compelled to fulfill their "Manifest Destiny," a phrase that came to mean that they were expected to spread across the land given to them by God and, most importantly, spread predominantly American values to the frontier. Chapter Outline: Introduction The Westward Spirit Homesteading: Dreams and Realities Making a Living in Gold and Cattle The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens The Open Courses Library introduces you to the best Open Source Courses.
Download or read book The American West written by Susan Willoughby and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pupil's book on the American West is part of a series written by teachers and SHP examiners, that is designed to meet the requirements of the revised GCSE syllabuses.
Download or read book Founding the Far West written by David Alan Johnson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding the Far West is an ambitious and vividly written narrative of the early years of statehood and statesmanship in three pivotal western territories. Johnson offers a model example of a new approach to history that is transforming our ideas of how America moved west, one that breaks the mold of "regional" and "frontier" histories to show why Western history is also American history. Johnson explores the conquest, immigration, and settlement of the first three states of the western region. He also investigates the building of local political customs, habits, and institutions, as well as the socioeconomic development of the region. While momentous changes marked the Far West in the later nineteenth century, distinctive local political cultures persisted. These were a legacy of the pre-Civil War conquest and settlement of the regions but no less a reflection of the struggles for political definition that took place during constitutional conventions in each of the three states. At the center of the book are the men who wrote the original constitutions of these states and shaped distinctive political cultures out of the common materials of antebellum American culture. Founding the Far West maintains a focus on the individual experience of the constitution writers—on their motives and ambitions as pioneers, their ideological intentions as authors of constitutions, and the successes and failures, after statehood, of their attempts to give meaning to the constitutions they had produced.
Download or read book The Winning of the West written by Theodore Roosevelt and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American West 1840 1895 written by Allan Todd and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook discusses the history of the American West in the 19th century. It includes discussions of Native Americans and their lives, geography of the west, explorers and early pioneers, and the creation of the rail network.
Download or read book The American West 1840 1900 written by Barbara Currie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
