Download or read book Medorem and John D Crawford Papers written by Medorem Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collection consists of both original and reproduced papers of and relating to Medorem Crawford and his younger brother, John D. Crawford. Medorem Crawford's papers include materials relating to his role as a U.S. Army officer for military escorts accompanying emigrants to Oregon during the U.S. Civil War. These include typescript copies, photocopies, and photostatic reproductions of his correspondence and reports, including ones published by the U.S. Senate, and a photostatic reproduction of Secretary of War Edwin Stanton's letter appointing Crawford as an officer. These also include a handwritten transcript of a diary by his brother LeRoy Crawford, who accompanied Medorem Crawford on the 1861 escort; and a photocopy of an Oregonian newspaper clipping showing a picture of officers from the 1861 escort, including Medorem Crawford and LeRoy Crawford. Medorem Crawford's other papers in the collection consist of a typescript copy of the journal he kept when he traveled overland to Oregon in 1842; a certificate for his marriage with Adeline Brown; property records, including a quitclaim deed; letters from his father, S. G. Crawford, and from Benjamin Stark; and a letter that he wrote to W. H. Rees about Oregon history. John D. Crawford's papers in the collection consist of letters that his father, S. G. Crawford, wrote to him; a letter from Joel Palmer, appointing him as a commissary officer in the conflict between Euro-Americans and Cayuse Native people; and a letter from A. E. Wait about supplies, written during that same conflict. The collection also includes several letters that Medorem Crawford and John D. Crawford wrote to each other.
Download or read book Business Papers of Medorem Crawford for Emigrant Provisions written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonel John H Crawford Papers written by John H. Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters of John Crawford dating from 1855 to 1862 and a petition to President Jefferson Davis concerning the commission of Crawford for Confederate service. The majority of the correspondence concerns the recruitment and organization of the Sixtieth Tennessee Infantry Regiment. One letter, from Isham G. Harris, relates activities of the Tennessee legislature in the fall of 1855.
Download or read book House documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John A Crawford Papers written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earlier papers reflect activities of Crawford's father, Daniel McLauchlan Crawford (1810-1874), a native of Castledawson in County Londonderry (Ireland)
Download or read book Medorem Crawford s Correspondence 1849 1857 written by and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Crawford To Accompany Bill H R No 223 April 3 1856 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Claims and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Containing a List of the Officers and Employes in the Civil Military and Naval Service on the First of July 1893 Together with a List of Vessels Belonging to the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Catalogue of the Everett D Graff Collection of Western Americana written by Colton Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Breakaway Americas written by Thomas Richards Jr. and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States—and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory. Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University Most Americans know that the state of Texas was once the Republic of Texas—an independent sovereign state that existed from 1836 until its annexation by the United States in 1846. But few are aware that thousands of Americans, inspired by Texas, tried to establish additional sovereign states outside the borders of the early American republic. In Breakaway Americas, Thomas Richards, Jr., examines six such attempts and the groups that supported them: "patriots" who attempted to overthrow British rule in Canada; post-removal Cherokees in Indian Territory; Mormons first in Illinois and then the Salt Lake Valley; Anglo-American overland immigrants in both Mexican California and Oregon; and, of course, Anglo-Americans in Texas. Though their goals and methods varied, Richards argues that these groups had a common mindset: they were not expansionists. Instead, they hoped to form new, independent republics based on the "American values" that they felt were no longer recognized in the United States: land ownership, a strict racial hierarchy, and masculinity. Exposing nineteenth-century Americans' lack of allegiance to their country, which at the time was plagued with economic depression, social disorder, and increasing sectional tension, Richards points us toward a new understanding of American identity and Americans as a people untethered from the United States as a country. Through its wide focus on a diverse array of American political practices and ideologies, Breakaway Americas will appeal to anyone interested in the Jacksonian United States, US politics, American identity, and the unpredictable nature of history.
Download or read book Desperate Passage written by Ethan Rarick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival. But until now, the full story of what happened, what it tells us about human nature and about America's westward expansion, remained shrouded in myth. Drawing on fresh archaeological evidence, recent research on topics ranging from survival rates to snowfall totals, and heartbreaking letters and diaries made public by descendants a century-and-a-half after the tragedy, Ethan Rarick offers an intimate portrait of the Donner party and their unimaginable ordeal: a mother who must divide her family, a little girl who shines with courage, a devoted wife who refuses to abandon her husband, a man who risks his life merely to keep his word. But Rarick resists both the gruesomely sensationalist accounts of the Donner party as well as later attempts to turn the survivors into archetypal pioneer heroes. "The Donner Party," Rarick writes, "is a story of hard decisions that were neither heroic nor villainous. Often, the emigrants displayed a more realistic and typically human mixture of generosity and selfishness, an alloy born of necessity." A fast-paced, heart-wrenching, clear-eyed narrative history, A Desperate Hope casts new light on one of America's most horrific encounters between the dream of a better life and the harsh realities such dreams so often must confront.
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.
