Download or read book Archeological Remains in Central Kansas and Their Possible Bearing on the Location of Quivira written by Waldo Rudolph Wedel and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeology of the High Plains written by James H. Gunnerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quivira written by William Brandon and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Mexico was a frontier to the wilderness, for Europeans, for almost three hundred years. No other frontier history in the area of what is now the United States can support such continuity, or even come close. It was the outside edge of the northern borderlands of New Spain, that later became the northern borderlands of Mexico. It was the western rim of the world for the French explorers and fur traders in the Mississippi valley and for the English who followed them there. It was lastly the frontier for the newly minted Americans who came with the opening of the nineteenth century to Missouri, the sill of the great plains, across which lay fabled Santa Fe, for Santa Fe, New Mexico's capital, was in effect another name for the entire province. The route between the Missouri River and New Mexico that eventually became known as the Santa Fe Trail was a road not for would-be settlers but for exploration, trade, adventure, and as such it was more an extension of the frontier itself than a road leading to a frontier. And it remained so throughout a very long sweep of time, from before -- from long before -- the founding of Santa Fe or the earliest Spanish exploration in the Southwest. Quivira provides a closely written synthesis of Spanish exploration eastward from New Mexico and French exploration westward from Louisiana and "the Illinois" in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Archaeological and ethnological evidence is presented to show that the country between these regions had been a frontier between east and west from time immemorial. William Brandon ably demonstrates that European efforts to penetrate this ancient frontier were predominately motivated by illusion -- misconceptions or outright fictions dealing with supposed riches someplace ahead. Brandon explores the question of whether the pursuit of illusion is a distinctive activity of all people or only of certain societies who possess an overwhelming interest in gain, profit, and money. Brandon concludes by asking whether or not a world established by Europe in American continues this bent for self-delusion.
Download or read book Archaeological Investigations in the Toronto Reservoir Area Kansas written by James Henri Howard and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cartographic Encounters written by G. Malcolm Lewis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since a native American prepared a paper "charte" of the lower Colorado River for the Spaniard Hernando de Alarcon in 1540, native Americans have been making maps in the course of encounters with whites (the most recent maps often support land claims). This book charts the history of these cartographic encounters, examining native maps and mapmaking from the earliest contacts onward.
Download or read book The Paul Brave Site 32SI4 Oahe Reservoir Area North Dakota written by W. Raymond Wood and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Harpe s Post written by George H. Odell and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major contribution to contact period studies points to the Lasley Vore site in modern Oklahoma as the most likely first meeting place of Plains Indians and Europeans more than 300 years ago. In 1718, Jean-Baptiste Bénard, Sieur de la Harpe, departed St. Malo in Brittany for the New World. La Harpe, a member of the French bourgeoisie, arrived at Dauphin Island on the Gulf coast to take up the entrepreneurial concession provided by the director of the French colony, Jean Baptiste LeMoyne de Bienville. La Harpe's charge was to open a trading post on the Red River just above a Caddoan village not far from present-day Texarkana. Following the establishment of this post, La Harpe ventured farther north to extend his trade market into the region occupied by the Wichita Indians. Here he encountered a Tawakoni village with an estimated 6,000 inhabitants, a number that swelled to 7,000 during the ten-day visit. Despite years of ethnohistoric and archaeological research, no scholar had successfully established where this important meeting took place. Then in 1988, George Odell and his crew surveyed and excavated an area 13 miles south of Tulsa, along the Arkansas River, that revealed undeniable association of Native American habitation refuse with 18th-century European trade goods. Odell here presents a full account of the presumed location of the Tawakoni village as revealed through the analysis of excavated materials from nine specialist collaborators. In a strikingly well-written narrative report, employing careful study and innovative analysis supported by appendixes containing the excavation data, Odell combines documentary history and archaeological evidence to pinpoint the probable site of the first European contact with North American Plains Indians.
Download or read book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva written by Richard Flint and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organized European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors.
Download or read book Coronado written by Herbert Eugene Bolton and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 759 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Eugene Bolton, who was well-known for his books on the Southwest and Spanish Americas, here recounts in detail Francisco Vasquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. In retracing Coronado’s route, Professor Bolton—with access to new information—was able to relive the experiences of the original exploration. Originally published in 1949, he brings fresh insight and profound knowledge to CORONADO: Knight of Pueblos and Plains. “Thoroughly documented, this tells of the search for El Dorado, the preliminary explorations of Fray Marcos seeking the Seven Cities of Cibola, Alarcon’s voyage, the discovery of the Colorado, the explorations of Coronado and his lieutenants...Then there are Coronado’s later years as governor of Nueva Galicia, his trial and acquittal.”—Kirkus Review
Download or read book Northwest Anthropological Research Notes written by Roderick Sprague and published by Northwest Anthropology. This book was released on with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Reprint Edition of the Entire Davidson Journal of Anthropology, 1955, 1956, & 1957
Download or read book Documents of the Coronado Expedition 1539 1542 written by Richard Flint and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2005.
Download or read book Erich F Schmidt s Investigations of Salado Sites in Central Arizona written by John W. Hohmann and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Jumanos written by Nancy Parrott Hickerson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late sixteenth century, Spanish explorers described encounters with North American people they called "Jumanos." Although widespread contact with Jumanos is evident in accounts of exploration and colonization in New Mexico, Texas, and adjacent regions, their scattered distribution and scant documentation have led to long-standing disagreements: was "Jumano" simply a generic name loosely applied to a number of tribes, or were they an authentic, vanished people? In the first full-length study of the Jumanos, anthropologist Nancy Hickerson proposes that they were indeed a distinctive tribe, their wide travel pattern linked over well-established itineraries. Drawing on extensive primary sources, Hickerson also explores their crucial role as traders in a network extending from the Rio Grande to the Caddoan tribes' confederacies of East Texas and Oklahoma. Hickerson further concludes that the Jumanos eventually became agents for the Spanish colonies, drafted as mercenary fighters and intelligence-gatherers. Her findings reinterpret the cultural history of the South Plains region, bridging numerous gaps in the area's comprehensive history and in the chronicle of these elusive people.
Download or read book Coronado written by Herbert E. Bolton and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Eugene Bolton’s classic of southwestern history, first published in 1949, delivers the epic account of Francisco Vásquez de Coronado’s sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire. Leaving Mexico City in 1540 with some three hundred Spaniards and a large body of Indian allies, Coronado and his men—the first Europeans to explore what are now Arizona and New Mexico—continued on to the buffalo-covered plains of Texas and into Oklahoma and Kansas. With documents in hand, Bolton personally followed the path of the Coronado expedition, providing readers with unsurpassed storytelling and meticulous research.
Download or read book Arkansas City written by Heather D. Ferguson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arkansas City has often been called the gateway to the West. The name lends a lot to describing the towna town that was founded as a border town to Indian Territory, a major trade hub to the Indian agencies in Indian Territory, and a major transportation center for those wishing to travel through the territory and farther west. Arkansas City started off as a small town with false-fronted stores but became a bustling community where the people were forward thinkers and pushed for quality and modernization in everything they brought to the city whether that was business, industry, or entertainment. Arkansas City is known for the Cherokee Strip Land Rush of September 16, 1893, interaction with the Native Americans in Indian Territory, farming, ranching, and aircraft. Although Arkansas City was a civilized community, it was a city on the fringe of a lawless and unsettled territory where outlaws lurked and Native Americans were forced to settle. People loaded their wagons or went by train to cross through Oklahoma to Texas, New Mexico, or Arizona, leaving from Arkansas City. Due to Arkansas Citys location, interaction with major figures and events in history, and its importance to travel farther west, Arkansas City was truly the gateway to the West.
Download or read book Archaeological Techniques for Amateurs written by Philip C. Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
