Download or read book Frontier Leaders and Pioneers written by Dorothy Heiderstadt and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief Stories Of Men Such As Boone, Bowie, Muir And Catlin Who Helped Explore And Settle The American West.
Download or read book Famous Frontiersmen and Heroes of the Border written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ill Fated Frontier written by Samuel Forman and published by Lyons Press. This book was released on 2020-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happened in between--a cautionary tale of greed, incompetence, and hubris--lies at the center of this fascinating account by Harvard historian Samuel A. Forman. Endorsed by New York Times best-selling author Nathaniel Philbrick, it is a startling and frank portrait of a young America that examines the dream of an inclusive American experience and its reality--a debate that continues today. Ill-Fated Frontier is at once a pioneer adventure and a compelling narrative of the frictions that emerged among entrepreneurial pioneers and their sixty slaves, Indians fighting to preserve their land, and Spanish colonials with their own agenda. Here is a lively and visceral portrait of the wild and enduring American frontier in 1879.
Download or read book Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier written by Bettye Burkhalter and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Romance, & Destiny Daring Pioneers Tame the Frontier is an exquisite saga of Dr. Jean (John) Baptiste Elzèar Burel's lifelong desire to cross the Atlantic Ocean to the beckoning new America. With his naval surgeon license in one hand and his medical chest in the other, he followed Marquis de Lafayette to Colonial America during the Revolutionary War. During the war he fell passionately in love and married a beautiful Acadian French woman in Philadelphia. After the war they made plans to return to his home at Ollioules, France. Homeward bound, the bourgeois doctor boarded the ship in Philadelphia with his new bride and their few belongings. There on deck he was unexpectedly forced to choose between his beloved homeland and family in France and his wife with child. Disembarking the ship with grave disappointment, John knowingly forfeited his inheritance as sole heir. Struggling to survive in Philadelphia, oftentimes John sat quietly admiring the beautiful woman who owned his heart as he secretly yearned for his prominent family and lifestyle on the Mediterranean Coast of France. Standing on the threshold of the newly independent America, the young doctor decided to take his wife and infant son and pioneer down the Great Wagon Road into the raw frontier of South Carolina. Believing he would build a new and prosperous life, he settled at Goshen Hill between the Tyger and Enoree Rivers within the lawless backcountry of South Carolina. Fighting the dangers and hardships of the frontier, and the recurring restlessness to return to France, John and his family carved out a simple life. Although disappointed at times, within the walls of his log home the enduring love and warmth of his wife and six children transcended adversity and hardships of the outside world. The heartwarming story is filled with humanity as John faced his inevitable destiny. The first novel in the trilogy closes with Dr. Burel's widow standing helplessly in her front yard watching the wagon train take her spirited children and grandchildren west in search of richer land and prosperity. It was déjà vu!
Download or read book The American Frontier written by William C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States; History, 1809-1901.
Download or read book History of the American Frontier written by Frederic L. Paxson and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-05-31 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Masterwork and Winner of The Pulitzer Prize for History Frederic L Paxson’s History of the American Frontier offers a sweeping account of the American West and the country’s westward expansion from 1763-1893. This gripping journey through the heart of America’s past is a must-read for every student of American history. Paxson masterfully paints a picture of how the land of the United States was settled over approximately 150 years, starting with the English settlers in New England and tracing the expansion across the continent, ending at the shores of the Pacific Ocean. Paxton’s literary genius shines through in this meticulously researched chronicle as he takes a historical, geographic, and pragmatic view of Westward expansion. He masterfully illuminates the untamed expanses, courageous pioneers, and the pivotal events in American history, from the War for Independence to the Louisiana Purchase, regional conflicts with Native Americans as well as the Civil War. In addition to these events that shaped American history, Paxton offers keen insight into the intricacies behind the scenes of frontier finance, executive orders from Presidents Washington to Roosevelt, and an inside look at the corporations who constructed and managed the canals and railroads. The vivid portrait Paxton paints of this captivating era in American history was worthy of The Pulitzer Prize he received in History for his portrayal of the intense struggles, the hard won triumphs and the pioneer spirt. This beautifully designed edition includes 10 easy to read maps so the reader can follow along on the journey west.
Download or read book Planting the Wilderness written by James Dabney McCabe and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Daniel Boone written by John Mack Faragher and published by Henry Holt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first popular and reliable biography of Daniel Boone in over 50 years, an award-winning historian portrays the man who became the prototype of the American frontier hero: the surveyor and builder of the Wilderness Road and the military leader of the settlers' struggle against the Shawnee. His life is here recounted by the author of Sugar Creek. 8 pages of photos.
Download or read book Pioneer Women written by Joanna L. Stratton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a rediscovered collection of autobiographical accounts written by hundreds of Kansas pioneer women in the early twentieth century, Joanna Stratton has created a collection hailed by Newsweek as “uncommonly interesting” and “a remarkable distillation of primary sources.” Never before has there been such a detailed record of women’s courage, such a living portrait of the women who civilized the American frontier. Here are their stories: wilderness mothers, schoolmarms, Indian squaws, immigrants, homesteaders, and circuit riders. Their personal recollections of prairie fires, locust plagues, cowboy shootouts, Indian raids, and blizzards on the plains vividly reveal the drama, danger and excitement of the pioneer experience. These were women of relentless determination, whose tenacity helped them to conquer loneliness and privation. Their work was the work of survival, it demanded as much from them as from their men—and at last that partnership has been recognized. “These voices are haunting” (The New York Times Book Review), and they reveal the special heroism and industriousness of pioneer women as never before.
Download or read book Famous Frontiersmen Pioneers and Scouts written by E. G. Cattermole and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Frontier written by William C. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontier Merchants written by Jerry Stanley and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Lionel and Barron Jacobs, Jewish merchants who started with a general store in Tucson in 1867 and went on to found Arizona's first bank.
Download or read book Frontier Grit written by Marianne Monson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the stories of twelve women who heard the call to settle the west and who came from all points of the globe to begin their journey. The author ties the stories of these pioneer women to the experiences of women today with the hope that they will be inspired to live boldly and bravely and to fill their own lives with vision, faith, and fortitude. To live with grit.
Download or read book The Frontier Against Slavery written by Eugene H. Berwanger and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene H. Berwanger's study of anti-slavery sentiment in the antebellum West is as resoundingly important now, in a new paperback edition, as when first published in 1967. In The Frontier against Slavery, Berwanger attributes the social and political climates of the states and territories Ohio River Valley pioneers settled before 1860 to racial prejudice. Drawing from newspaper accounts, political speeches, correspondence, and legal documents, Berwanger reveals that the whites-only sentiments of the pioneers, rather than humanitarian concern for African Americans, limited the expansion of slavery. This whites-only prejudice shaped laws in the majority of western states and territories that excluded all African Americans, enslaved or free, from citizenship, evidencing the deep-rooted discrimination of political leaders and pioneers.
Download or read book Pioneer Life and Frontier Adventures written by De Witt Clinton Peters and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Famous Scouts Including Trappers Pioneers and Soldiers of the Frontier written by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes trappers, pioneers, and soldiers of the frontier.
Download or read book Famous Scouts Including Trappers Pioneers and Soldiers of the Frontier written by Charles Haren Ladd Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
