Download or read book An Incident at South Pass written by Robert Peecher and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terror on the Emigrant Trail. In the vast wilderness of the early West, a tribunal must decide the fate of one member of their party. Was it murder or self-defense? Will it be banishment or a hanging. Halfway along the two-thousand mile journey of the Oregon Trail, as the Townes Party approaches the South Pass, they realize the trail holds obstacles beyond the steep cliff faces, the treacherous river crossings, and the miles without water. Obstacles they could have never predicted. An outfit of rough men are journeying back east, carrying with them their prizes to sell to Easterners. When they encounter the Townes Party bound for Oregon's green valleys, they may have found another prize or two. If the Townes Party is going to make it to Bridger's Fort and beyond, they'll first have to survive An Incident at South Pass. If you love traditional Westerns steeped in history and full of action, then saddle up your best riding horse and pack your wagon light. This trail goes on forever. But be sure to bring plenty of powder and shot, because you never know what dangers you'll encounter on the way through the South Pass. Grab your copy today!
Download or read book South Pass and Its Tales written by James L. Sherlock and published by Wolverine Distributing, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass written by Richard Braden and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the entire Rocky Mountain intermountain region there is no place that was more traveled in the nineteenth century than the famed 'South Pass', a fortuitous spot along the American continental divide in west-central Wyoming. There people and animals could scurry like ants across the crest of the foreboding Rocky Mountains, and live to tell about it. It was as if the Creator, having surveyed His work in this part of the world, pressed a thumb into the landscape to provide a place for simple farmers, immigrants, and some ne'er-do-wells to pass through on their way to the promised land in the far west. It was on the west side of the South Pass that the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail, having existed side-by-side for over 1100 miles, now diverged. The Mormons and the California Forty-niners headed southwest as soon as they cleared the pass; the people bound for Oregon and Washington headed northwest at the same juncture.It was at this pass that a rockhound named Charley Grissom met the Cecil McGowan family, and all of their lives were changed forever.
Download or read book Mudlumps at the Mouth of South Pass Mississippi River written by James Plummer Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bowden s South Pass Justice written by Robert H. Henry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LifeMaps for Midlife Women is a motivational self-help book for the 37 million Baby Boomer women who are between the ages of 40 and 60, that "midlife" time of transition out of youth and into maturity. What makes this book different from others is that rather than focusing merely on menopause, this covers seven areas of life that are important to midlife women: body, mind, relationships, work, money, space, and spirituality. Also, instead of just providing information, this book guides readers through activities for mapping out their own plan of action for positive change in their lives. After reading this book each woman will be able to put her fears about aging to rest and awaken to the joy of having grown beyond the craziness of youth. She will be able to recognize this as a time of life that offers wisdom and freedom that allow her to embrace exciting new possibilities. And, finally, she will create her own LifeMap, a powerful personal guide for living midlife to the fullest.
Download or read book Jedediah Smith and the Opening of the West written by Dale Lowell Morgan and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1953-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1822, before Jedediah Smith entered the West, it was largely an unknown land, “a wilderness,” he wrote, “of two thousand miles diameter.” During his nine years as a trapper for Ashley and Henry and later for the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, “the mild and Christian young man” blazed the trail westward through South Pass; he was the first to go from the Missouri overland to California, the first to cross the length of Utah and the width of Nevada, first to travel by land up through California and Oregon, first to cross the Sierra Nevada. Before his death on the Santa Fe Trail at the hands of the Comanches, Jed Smith and his partners had drawn the map of the west on a beaver skin.
Download or read book Incidents Associated with Oil and Gas Operations Outer Continental Shelf written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book South Pass 1868 written by James Chisholm and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Chisholm was a staff writer For The Chicago Tribune sent to report on the gold strike made in the late 1860s at one of the great historical features of the continent?South Pass on the western trails. His journal, illustrated by himself, Is a graceful, observant narrative full of the real essence of frontier mining camp life."?Library Journal. "Chisholm had a lively sense of humor, An engaging frankness, and a fine eye for landscape. He was also a candid social critic."?Rocky Mountain News. "Lovers of the Old West will buy Chisholm's Journal and never part with it."?Pacific Historical Review. "If South Pass failed to produce gold in the paying quantities James Chisholm's miners thought it would, Chisholm himself produced finer, more lasting gold in his journal account of Wyoming's short-lived gold rush. His journal exudes the smell of sagebrush and scenic panoramas, Of torrential rain storms and night packing, Of being small in a big land, and of honest, earthy people who, In business-like fashion, went about the task of risking life, limb, health, and what small fortunes they had, To hit the big one. Chisholm sees with unpretentious eyes. His is an honest appraisal from a detached journalist, leavened with self-effacing humor. His prose is clean and clear. it can be read aloud and remembered."?Charles E. Rankin, editor of Montana the Magazine of Western History. Lola M. Homsher was director of the Wyoming State Archives and Historical Department.
Download or read book Bowden s South Pass Justice written by Robert Henry and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Pass's Town Marshal, Jim Bowden, is legally restrained from investigating the murder of a family friend because the crime occurred outside of his legal jurisdiction. That is, restrained until his close friend, Territorial Marshal Phil Howard is ambushed and deputizes Bowden and his deputy Scratchy to investigate the crime. Freed from their legal restraints, Bowden and Scratchy begin their investigation. As usual, Bowden follows his hunches, and as usual, those hunches lead him into trouble. He's determined to gather enough evidence to arrest his evil suspects, the Striker brothers, and prosecute them according to the law of the territory, but, in the end the Striker brothers leave him no choice but to deliver Bowden's South Pass Justice!
Download or read book The Story of the Mormons written by William Alexander Linn and published by General Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III HOW JOSEPH SMITH BECAME A MONEY-DIGGER The elder Smith, as we have seen, was known as a money- digger while a resident of Vermont. Of course that subject was a matter of conversation in his family, and his sons were of a character to share in his belief in the existence of hidden treasure. The territory around Palmyra was as good ground for their explorations as any in Vermont, and they soon let their neighbors know of a possibility of riches that lay within their reach. The father, while a resident of Vermont, also claimed ability to locate an underground stream of water over which would be a good site for a well, by means of a forked hazel switch,1 and in this way doubtless increased the demand for his services as a well-digger, but we have no testimonials to his success. The son Joseph, while still a young lad, professed to have his father's gift in this respect, and he soon added to his accomplishments the power to locate hidden riches, and in this way began his career as a money-digger, which was so intimately connected with his professions as a prophet. Writers on the origin of the Mormon Bible, and the gradual development of Smith the Prophet from Smith the village loafer and money-seeker, have left their readers unsatisfied on many points. Many of these obscurities will be removed by a very careful examination of Joseph's occupations and declarations during the years immediately preceding the announcement of the revelation and delivery to him of the golden plates. 1 The so-called " divining rod " has received a good deal of attention from persons engaged in psychical research. Vol. XIII, Part II, of the " Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research " is devoted to a discussion of the subject by Professor W. F. Barrett of the Royal College of ...
Download or read book South Pass written by Arthur Cobery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of the Mormons from the Date of Their Origin to the Year 1901 written by William Alexander Linn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Year of Decision 1846 written by Bernard Augustine De Voto and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-10-05 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the events of 1846 and 1847 in the development of the West including the opening of the overland trails and the war with Mexico.
Download or read book Annals of Wyoming written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars 1492 1890 written by Jerry Keenan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the longest running conflict in American history, this illustrated encyclopedia reveals the common threads that weave through four centuries of clashes, from Columbus's voyage to the Wounded Knee Massacre. 450 entries. 70 illustrations.
Download or read book The Life and Legends of Calamity Jane written by Richard W. Etulain and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the name Calamity Jane. Scores of dime novels and movie and TV Westerns have portrayed this original Wild West woman as an adventuresome, gun-toting hellion. Although Calamity Jane has probably been written about more than any other woman of the nineteenth-century American West, fiction and legend have largely obscured the facts of her life. This lively, concise, and exhaustively researched biography traces the real person from the Missouri farm where she was born in 1856 through the development of her notorious persona as a Wild West heroine. Before Calamity Jane became a legend, she was Martha Canary, orphaned when she was only eleven years old. From a young age she traveled fearlessly, worked with men, smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. By the time she arrived in the boomtown of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876, she had become Calamity Jane, and the real Martha Canary had disappeared under a landslide of purple prose. Calamity became a hostess and dancer in Deadwood’s saloons and theaters. She imbibed heavily, and she might have been a prostitute, but she had other qualities, as well, including those of an angel of mercy who ministered to the sick and the down-and-out. Journalists and dime novelists couldn’t get enough of either version, nor, in the following century, could filmmakers. Sorting through the stories, veteran western historian Richard W. Etulain’s account begins with a biography that offers new information on Calamity’s several “husbands” (including one she legally married), her two children, and a woman who claimed to be the daughter of Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity, a story Etulain discredits. In the second half of the book, Etulain traces the stories that have shaped Calamity Jane’s reputation. Some Calamity portraits, he says, suggest that she aspired to a quiet life with a husband and family. As the 2004–2006 HBO series Deadwood makes clear, well more than a century after her first appearance as a heroine in the Deadwood Dick dime novels, Calamity Jane lives on—raunchy, unabashed, contradictory, and ambiguous as ever.
Download or read book Incidents Associated with Oil and Gas Operations written by L. John Chadwell and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
