Download or read book Notes and Memoranda of an Overland Trip from Texas to California in the Year 1849 written by Cornelius C. Cox and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negative photostat facsimile of the ms. diary kept by Cornelius C. Cox during an overland journey from Texas to California between April 14, 1849 and Feb. 6, 1850. The initial group, consisting of Cox, James McAllister, Lewis B. Harris and wife, and Bob and Jane, two black slaves belonging to Harris, leave Harrisburg, Tex. on April 14, 1849, and four days later, cross the Brazos River. Their route takes them through Austin, across the Concho River to El Paso, and Cooks Springs, and on Aug. 8 they reach the Pacific Ocean. Throughout the journey, Cox records his observations on the Apache Indians and Mexicans they encounter, and describes in detail the natural beauty and agricultural richness of California. The group rests in Los Angeles, where the Lewises decide to spend the winter at the San Gabriel Mission, and continues up the coast, through the mission towns of San Buenaventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo. By Jan. 10, 1850, they are in Monterrey, and 10 days later, in San José. After spending just one day in San Francisco--"the most extravagant place in the sensuous world"--Cox finishes his journey on Feb. 6, 1850 in Stockton, the third most important business city in California, the "great emporium of the southern mines."
Download or read book The Conquest of Texas written by Gary Clayton Anderson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2019-02-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not your grandfather’s history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing. The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war. Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded: by the 1870s, Indians had been driven from central and western Texas. By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.
Download or read book The Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To California on the Southern Route 1849 written by Patricia A. Etter and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most travelers to Utah during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially those from Europe, were curious about the state's community of Latter-day Saints, with their "seventeen-strong families with only one man " Here, editor Michael W. Homer has collected the writings of some of those European travelers, breaking new ground by ignoring the tradition of including only the predictably benign views of English gentlemen. "On the Way to Somewhere Else "includes such colorful perspectives towards the Mormons as those of an outraged Catholic priest, an intrigued German prince, a liberated Frenchwoman, and a devout French convert, many of who had visits with the man they called the "Pope of Mormonism," Brigham Young.The European visitors encountered not only devout Mormons, but other lively characters of the American West, from fur traders to Indians to soldiers. Originally a volume in the series "Kingdom in the West: The Mormons and the American Frontier," this new printing of On the Way to Somewhere Else captures almost one hundred years of varied perceptions, revealing an unexpected glimpse into the physical development of Utah and the political evolution of Mormonism.
Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,
Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by Eugene Campbell Barker and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings of the Trustees written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report of the Trustees of the Newberry Library written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Dictionary Catalog of the Edward E Ayer Collection of Americana and American Indians in the Newberry Library written by Newberry Library and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes by the Camp Fire Being a Narrative of an Overland Journey from the United States to California in the Year 1849 written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: Holograph account of the Havilah Mining Association's overland journey from Fort Smith, Ark. to the gold regions of California. The association was composed of 34 men, of whom George F. Sniffen wrote the journal. The journal begins in March 1849 with the company making preparations for its journey and concludes in early January 1850 with Sniffen and a friend gaining passage on a ship in San Francisco to return to the eastern United States.
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Marcy the Gold Seekers written by Grant Foreman and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overland to California on the Southwestern Trail 1849 written by Robert Eccleston and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
